"efficious" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly a variation of efficacious or derivative of efficacy influenced by analysis of the final -c- in the later word as being part of a suffix -cy rather than the word-stem.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more efficious",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most efficious",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "efficious (comparative more efficious, superlative most efficious)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1770, The Memoirs of Miss Arabella Bolton. Containing a Genuine Account, page 81:",
          "text": "Had she not been cured at Oxford, no imputation could have fallen upon me, considering the circumstance of her pregnancy, and the virulence of the symptoms, for which I had used the most efficious remedies in the world.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, The Carolina Medical Journal, volumes 43-44, page 207, quoting the Medical Standard",
          "text": "This remedy will be found speedily efficious in hoarseness due to excessive action of the vocal cords or resulting from an acute cold."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 September 1, DW Rudy, JR Voelker, PK Greene, FA Esparza, DC Brater, “Loop diuretics for chronic renal insufficiency: a continuous infusion is more efficacious than bolus therapy”, in Ann. Intern. Med., 115(5):",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, volume 12:",
          "text": "[...] was found to be efficious in reducing pain and severity of swelling (Laupattarakasem et al. 1993).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Efficacious."
      ],
      "id": "en-efficious-en-adj-TsPrFJaG",
      "links": [
        [
          "Efficacious",
          "efficacious"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, nonstandard) Efficacious."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "efficious"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly a variation of efficacious or derivative of efficacy influenced by analysis of the final -c- in the later word as being part of a suffix -cy rather than the word-stem.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more efficious",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most efficious",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "efficious (comparative more efficious, superlative most efficious)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1770, The Memoirs of Miss Arabella Bolton. Containing a Genuine Account, page 81:",
          "text": "Had she not been cured at Oxford, no imputation could have fallen upon me, considering the circumstance of her pregnancy, and the virulence of the symptoms, for which I had used the most efficious remedies in the world.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, The Carolina Medical Journal, volumes 43-44, page 207, quoting the Medical Standard",
          "text": "This remedy will be found speedily efficious in hoarseness due to excessive action of the vocal cords or resulting from an acute cold."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 September 1, DW Rudy, JR Voelker, PK Greene, FA Esparza, DC Brater, “Loop diuretics for chronic renal insufficiency: a continuous infusion is more efficacious than bolus therapy”, in Ann. Intern. Med., 115(5):",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, volume 12:",
          "text": "[...] was found to be efficious in reducing pain and severity of swelling (Laupattarakasem et al. 1993).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Efficacious."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Efficacious",
          "efficacious"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, nonstandard) Efficacious."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "efficious"
}