a. [ad. L. calculōs-us, f. calculus stone, pebble; corresp. to F. calculeux.]
1. Med. Of or pertaining to a calculus or the stone; diseased with the stone; calculary.
1605. Timme, Quersit., III. 156. A remedy … to mittigate and to dissolue such calculous & stony matter.
1683. Robinson, in Ray’s Corr. (1848), 137. A good medicine in some scorbutic and calculous cases.
a. 1801. W. Heberden, Comment., xvi. (1806), 84. In opening the bodies of calculous persons.
1803. Med. Jrnl., IX. 355. To ascertain the precise nature of calculous urine.
a. 1827. Abernethy, Surg. Wks. (1827), II. 207. No calculous concretion was found after death.
1858. Lond. Rev., Oct., 230. A victim of confirmed calculous disease.
† 2. Stony (as the ‘calculary’ of a pear). Obs.
1671. Grew, Anat. Plants, vi. § 3. A simple Body, having neither any of the Lignous branches in it, nor any Calculous Knots.
