[f. ERGOT sb. + -IC.] Of or pertaining to ergot; resulting from the action of ergot.
Ergotic acid, ‘a volatile acid said to exist in Ergot of rye’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 546. It is… very doubtful whether the ergotic spasm is local in its origin.
