Definition of "medicaments" [medicaments]

• Plural form of medicament. (noun)

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• "I sorrowed and condoled with him; and he would have applied certain medicaments to my eye, but he saw that it was become as a walnut with the shell empty."
• "After describing the cutting of the umbilical cord, this vernacular text followed Avicenna and advocated the practice of cleansing the infant's body with cloth soaked in medicaments in order "to make the navel and whole body warm and hardened, since, as soon as the child is born, its whole body is tender and delicate — it quickly feels warm and cold things, which very quickly harm and can destroy and change its natural shape.""
• "Also a competent salary for the surgeon and his chest of medicaments, which is usually rated at 200 or 250 pieces of eight."