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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
medicate/ˈmedɪkeɪt/

▶verb administer medicine or a drug to.

■ add a medicinal substance to.

– derivatives
medicative adjective.

– origin C17 (earlier (ME) as medication): from L. medicat-, medicari ‘administer remedies to’.

'medicate' also found in these Oxford entries:

medicament - self-medicate

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