Definitions for clysters

clysters clys·ter

Spelling: [klis-ter]
IPA: /ˈklɪs tər/

Clysters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in clysters (celrssty).

Definitions for clysters

noun

  1. an enema.
  2. an enema.

Origin of clysters

1350-1400; Middle English Latin Greek klystēr, equivalent to *klyd- (base of klýzein to rinse out; cf. cataclysm) + -tēr agent noun suffix

Examples for clysters

In severe cases a clyster with ten or fifteen drops of liquor ammoni is said to do good.

What a misfortune not to take a clyster prescribed by Mr. Purgon!

A wretch, unpleasant to everybody; of nauseous, dirty habits; always a clyster or a dose of physic in his body.

Item, the clyster repeated in the evening, as above, thirty sous.

How dare you oppose yourself to the prescription of the doctors, and prevent the gentleman from taking my clyster?

He was the inventor of some new instruments and of a clyster apparatus.

Molière, in his seventeenth-century satires on the European medical profession, ridicules the excessive use of the clyster.

Two head-baths from ten to fifteen minutes each, and one clyster.

A clyster of tobacco-smoke may be thrown up as a last resort.

A clyster which I have had the pleasure of composing myself.

What a misfortune not to take a clyster prescribed by Mr. Purgon!

How dare you oppose yourself to the prescription of the doctors, and prevent the gentleman from taking my clyster?

A wretch, unpleasant to everybody; of nauseous, dirty habits; always a clyster or a dose of physic in his body.

Molière, in his seventeenth-century satires on the European medical profession, ridicules the excessive use of the clyster.

A clyster of tobacco-smoke may be thrown up as a last resort.

Two head-baths from ten to fifteen minutes each, and one clyster.

A clyster which I have had the pleasure of composing myself.

Item, the clyster repeated in the evening, as above, thirty sous.

He was the inventor of some new instruments and of a clyster apparatus.

In severe cases a clyster with ten or fifteen drops of liquor ammoni is said to do good.

Word Value for clysters
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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