Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

epispastic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: epis-pas-tic
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Causing blisters; vesicant.

Archaic

noun

A vesicant agent; that which causes blisters.

Dated

noun

Dated

Example Sentences

"Old Postle says this: "Cantharides when used internally are diuretic and stimulant; when applied externally they are epispastic and rubefacient." Now what the devil can he mean, eh?"

Usage

Inflected Forms

more epispastic (comparative) most epispastic (superlative) epispastick (alternative) epispastics (plural)

Rhymes With

fantastic plastic enthusiastic drastic sarcastic elastic stochastic monastic dynastic spastic bombastic thermoplastic

Questions

What does epispastic mean?: Causing blisters; vesicant.

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