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Suppositories

Suppository \Sup*pos"i*to*ry\, n.; pl. Suppositories. [LL. suppositorium, fr. L. suppositorius that is placed underneath: cf. F. suppositoire. See Supposition.] (Med.) A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.

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suppositories

n. (plural of suppository English)

Usage examples of "suppositories".

But I never heard of anyone selling hemorrhoid suppositories on the street.

Hoke rummaged through the purse and found a narrow cardboard box of suppositories, each of them wrapped in blue tinfoil.

Hoke put the suppositories back in the purse and took out Loretta's checkbook.

As soon as he came back from the dentist in Panama City, he wouldn't need the suppositories the major had given him.