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Definition of Sternutator
1. Noun. A chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying. "Police used a sternutatory to subdue the mob"
Definition of Sternutator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sternutator
Literary usage of Sternutator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nineteenth Century Letters by Byron Johnson Rees (1919)
"... that she must be an unparalleled sternutator. . . . 29] To 0. F. BRIGGS [HIS "OLD
GARRET"; "A FABLE FOR CRITICS"] ELMWOOD, May 12, 1843. ..."
2. Nineteenth Century Letters by Byron Johnson Rees (1919)
"... attempts at facetiousness, which now and then give a melancholy air to the
Tribune, that she must be an unparalleled sternutator. . . , 29] To 0. ..."
3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1842)
"... prosperity if the head of the sternutator be turned to the right." Nor does
the Court Circular intimate that this nasal convulsion occurred at the ..."
4. New Remedies by Robley Dunglison (1846)
"Tabaci sternutator. com. |j. M. To be snuffed up the nostrils in the course of
fire or six days, in cases of intermittent headach. ..."
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