v. Obs. [f. L. cārmināt- ppl. stem of cārmin-āre to card (wool), f. cārmen a card for wool + -ATE3. Cf. It. carminare ‘to card or teazell wool, also to make grosse humors fine and thin’ (Florio). Cf. CARMINATIVE.]
trans. Of medicines: To expel (wind) from the stomach or bowels.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXVI. viii. To carminate or dissolve ventosities. Ibid. (1634), Gloss., To Carminat, is to make more fine and thin the grosse humours … a terme … borrowed from those that card wooll.
1655. Phys. Dict., s.v., Carminating medicines, are such as do break wind.
¶ To card wool, etc. (Only in Dicts.)
1613. R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Carminate, to card wool, or deuide.
1623. Cockeram, Carminate, to spin.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Carminate, to card wool, or hatchel flax, to sever the good from the bad.
