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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sure to have the desired effect" (often of medicines), 1520s, from Latin efficaci- , stem of efficax "effectual, powerful" (see efficacy ) + -ous . Related: Efficaciously ; efficaciousness .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough" [ant: inefficacious ] producing ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ More efficacious treatments may soon be available. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Areas where safeguards developed against the backdrop of a different type of decision-making may be more efficacious and apposite. ▪ He sees ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. effective; possessing efficacy

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Efficacious \Ef`fi*ca"cious\, a. [L. eficax, -acis, fr. efficere. See Effect , n.] Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law. Syn: See Effectual . -- Ef`fi*ca"cious*ly , ...

Usage examples of efficacious.

It is really, however, the most efficacious of the three types, as it does not evaporate as readily as the asphyxiating gas.

A second metaphysical objection to introspection is based on the premise that mental events in general, and all causally efficacious mental processes in particular, are unconscious and therefore inaccessible in principle to introspective observation.

A modern, materialistic reinterpretation of this view asserts that mental events in general, and all causally efficacious mental processes in particular, are unconscious, for they are actually brain states that can be studied solely by objective, scientific means.

We have also seen that butyric acid, which is much more efficacious than propionic or valerianic acids, digests with pepsin at the higher temperature less than a third of the fibrin which is digested at the same temperature by hydrochloric acid.

Bakkat had concocted a balm of eland fat and wild herbs for her that was proving almost miraculously efficacious.

It is vain to insist with such stubbornness as that of the classic school of criminology on juristic formulas by which the distinction between illegal appropriation and theft, between fraud and other forms of crime against property, and so forth, is determined, when this method does not give to society one single word which would throw light upon the reasons that make a man a criminal and upon the efficacious remedy by which society could protect itself against criminality.

If the plant be macerated in alcohol for a week, then cotton wool dipped in the liquid is as efficacious for staying bleeding, when applied to the spot, as the strongly astringent muriate of iron.

Coltsfoot and fenugreek, sage and wormwood, betony, fennel, hock and melilot were all said to be efficacious, at times.

Immersion in a protyle sink is significantly more efficacious, albeit infinitely more perilous.

Many homoeopathic remedies are thoroughly triturated with sugar of milk, which renders them more palatable and efficacious.

I hope your contribution is somewhat more efficacious than the farce your commissariat precipitated in regard to the so-called Amish threat.

Experiments on animals are in no way indispensable to completely efficacious instruction in physiology.

Robocop 3 director Fred Dekker and his co-writer, Frank Miller, seemed not to understand anything about the efficacious use of humor in such a gimmicky action flick, but, by gum, they oiled up that rusty chassis and tried to make it run one more time anyway!

Life-root exerts a peculiar influence upon the female reproductive organs, and for this reason has received the name of Female Regulator It is very efficacious in promoting the menstrual flow, and is a valuable agent in the treatment of uterine diseases.

The writer of the above is, very probably, a little over sanguine in his opinion that the plan of treatment will prove efficacious in all organic diseases, but certainly, from our experience, we can endorse his belief as to its great efficacy in many forms of organic weakness, especially those of the generative organs, nervous system, heart and some other parts of the body.