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Bitterness vs Epicerastic - What's the difference?

bitterness | epicerastic |

As nouns the difference between bitterness and epicerastic

is that bitterness is the quality of having a bitter taste while epicerastic is (rare|obsolete) a medicine or herb having such an effect.

As an adjective epicerastic is

(obsolete|rare) relieving the harshness or bitterness of certain bodily humours; (loosely), soothing, emollient.

bitterness

English

Noun

  • the quality of having a bitter taste
  • the quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment

    • Synonyms

    * (quality of being bitter in taste) acerbicness, acridity, acridness * (quality of feeling bitter) acrimony, gall, rancor/rancour, resentment

    epicerastic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete, rare) Relieving the harshness or bitterness of certain bodily humours; (loosely), soothing, emollient.
  • * 1763 , A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences , 2nd edition, vol. II, p. 1099:
    • Epicerastic medicines obtund the acrimony of the humours, and mitigate the uneasy sensation thence arising.
  • * 1856 , Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, The Sweet South , vol. II, p. 359:
    • Actually the aged dame (partly, perhaps, that she was quite tired with her own violence) listened to my various epicerastic expressions, showed herself amenable to counsel, and replied in very courteous tones.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, obsolete) A medicine or herb having such an effect.
  • * 1736 , John Quincy, Lexicon Physico-Medicum , 5th edition, p. 146:
    • Epicerastick […] is a Medicine that assuages and corrects sharp Humours.
  • * 1853 , Francis Campbell, A Commentary on the Influence which the Use of Tobacco exerts on the Human Constitution , p. 120:
    • In a medicinal point of view it may be considered as an inferior sort of epicerastic .