Alterative is a 10 letter English word.
You can make 437 anagrams from letters in alterative (aaeeilrttv).
First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word alterātīvus. See alter, -ative
A spoonful night and morning for a week or longer, as an alterative or purifier of the blood; in skin diseases, &c.
In India it is used for the piles and as an alterative for bilious disorders.
It has also some reputation as an alterative and resolvent, and as an anodyne.
The leaves of a tree belonging to the family Bignoniace, employed in Brazil as a diaphoretic, diuretic, and alterative tonic.
Others have employed it as an alterative and tonic with variable success.
Does the skin undergo any alterative or destructive changes?
Dose: Nervine and alterative, 1/6—1/3 grn.; emetic, 2—5 grn.
The alterative medicine was to be given in tablespoonfuls—two tablespoonfuls to a dose.
alterative and discutient; used to disperse indolent tumours and swellings, and as a resolvent in enlarged joints, &c.
I determined to try the poison of jealousy, by way of an alterative.