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medicate (v.)
"to treat medicinally," 1620s, a back-formation from
medication
, or else from Late Latin
medicatus
, past participle of
medicare
. Related:
Medicated
;
medicating
. The earlier verb in English was simply
medicin
(late 14c.).
