See Also: mundificative(medicine)

speedy (iou) and mundificative (medicine)


speedy (iou)



speedy adjective. ['spi:di] LME.
[from SPEED noun + -Y1.]
Advantageous, expedient, helpful. Only in LME.
Moving or able to move with speed, swift, acting or operating quickly. LME.
A. Fleming Foure swifte and speedie legions.
Characterized by or facilitating speed of operation or motion. LME.
H. Maundrell The nearest and speediest way.
Performed or taking place rapidly; done without delay, prompt. E16.
C. S. Forester They will die unless they receive speedy aid. V. Glendinning Sent her best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Phrases: speedy cut an injury on the inner side of a horse's foreleg or hind leg just below the knee or hock joint, caused by the foot of the opposite leg when in motion. speedy trial Law a criminal trial held after minimal delay, esp. (in N. America) as considered to be a citizen's right.
speedily adverb LME.
speediness noun LME.

mundificative (medicine)


mundificative


Cleansing.

A detergent medicine or preparation.

Source: Websters Dictionary