different between treating vs vulnerary

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?t??/
• Hyphenation: treat?ing

Verb

treating

1. present participle of treat

Noun

treating (countable and uncountable, plural treatings)

1. treatment
   • 1892, Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Holy Terror

     […] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold; at any rate, it was at about that time that he entered upon that memorable series of potations and treatings which is still one of the cherished traditions of the San Juan Smith country […]

Anagrams

• aretting, tergiant

English

Etymology

From Latin vulner?rius, from vulnus (“wound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v?l.n??.??.i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?v?l.n?.??.i/

Adjective

vulnerary (comparative more vulnerary, superlative most vulnerary)

1. Useful or used for healing wounds; healing, curative.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 28,^[1]

     Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that [...] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life.

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 422 (footnote):

     Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus.

2. (archaic, rare) Causing wounds, wounding.

Usage notes

• Restricted in modern use primarily to works on ethnobotany and traditional medicine.

Translations

Noun

vulnerary (plural vulneraries)

1. A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.

Translations

See also

• vulnerable