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Definition of Nonmedicinal
1. Adjective. Not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed. "He took mind-altering drugs for nonmedicinal reasons"
Definition of Nonmedicinal
1. Adjective. Not medicinal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonmedicinal
Literary usage of Nonmedicinal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Youth & Drugs: Society's Mixed Messages edited by Hank Resnik (1994)
"The first legal control on marijuana use occurred in El Paso, Texas, when a loca
ordinance banned the sale or possession of marijuana for nonmedicinal use. ..."
2. The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle by Ronald D. Renard (1996)
"... living by opium cultivation and the manufacture of crude opium (for nonmedicinal
purposes) to find alternative sources of income (Union of Burma, 1975). ..."
3. The Drug Connection in U. S.-Mexican Relations edited by Guadalupe Gonzalez, Marta Tienda (1996)
"... 28 percent of young adults (18-25 years old), and 9 percent of older adults (26
years old and up) had used psychotropic drugs for nonmedicinal purposes. ..."
4. Lectures on auto-intoxication in disease, or, Self-poisoning of the individual by Charles Bouchard, Sir Thomas Oliver (1906)
"Abstraction of heat is the only nonmedicinal means of lowering the temperature
of fever patients. Many methods of abstracting heat in fever patients have ..."
5. Flora Medica; a Botanical Account of All the More Important Plants Used in by John Lindley (1838)
"... that " the Sarsaparilla of the shops is for the most part nearly inert, either
from age or from being procured from several nonmedicinal species. ..."
6. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: A Practical Exposition of the Methods by Solomon Solis-Cohen (1902)
"Electricity certainly merits as much consideration in our treatment of disease
as do other nonmedicinal methods. So the book had to be written, ..."