stomachic

English

Alternative forms

stomachick (obsolete)

Etymology

Latin stomachicus.

Adjective

stomachic (comparative more stomachic, superlative most stomachic)

Of or relating to the stomach.
- 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 107:
  This will usefully blunt the keenness of the stomachic ferment.
Beneficial to the stomach or to digestion.

Noun

stomachic (plural stomachics)

A medicine for the stomach.
- 1844, Richard Dennis Hoblyn, A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences‎:
  CALUMBÆ RADIX (Kalumbo, Portuguese). The root of the Cocculus palmatus, one of our most useful stomachics and tonics. It contains a bitter principle, called calumbin.

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