Suppositor

Sup`pos´i`tor


n.1.(Med.) An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Anthonies tier." This embarrassing complaint is cured only after a voyage to Japan and the resolution not to use the grass of Ajax as toilet paper "but rather, teare a leafe out of Holinsheds Chronicles."(60) In reverence to the memory of the Grecian warrior, the gentleman "built a sumptuous priuy, and in the most conspicuous place thereof, namely iust ouer the doore; he erected a statue of AIAX, with so grim a countenance, that the aspect of it being full of terror, was halfe as good as a suppositor." The place was called "A-IAX: though since, by ill pronunciation .
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