Definition of "sternutatory" [ster•nu•ta•to•ry]

• Causing or tending to cause sneezing. (adjective)
• A sternutatory substance, such as pepper. (noun)

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• "To procure the expulsion of the secundines, apply a sternutatory, and shut the nostrils and mouth."
• "He had seen me in a tandem, and at that moment was seized with a violent fit of sneezing — (sternutatory paroxysm he called it) — at the conclusion of which I was a mile down the Woodstock Road."
• "Somebody on this planet had a gas which was a regurgi-tant, a sternutatory, and a vesicant all in one."