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DEMONSTRATIVE

Volume 2 · 61 words · 1771 Edition

grammar, a term given to such pronouns as serve to indicate or point out a thing. Of this number are hic, hæc, hoc, among the Latins; and this, that, these, those, in English.

Demulcents, among physicians, medicines good against acrimonious humours. Such are the roots of marsh-mallows, of white lilies, of liquorice, and of viper grass, the five emollient herbs, &c.