A medicinal preparation made by extracting the active constituents of a substance using alcohol as the solvent.
From 'alcohol' plus '-ature' (a suffix from Latin meaning 'quality or result of'), a pharmaceutical term from the 16th century.
Alcoholatures were the original herbal medicine—before modern extraction, apothecaries soaked plants in alcohol for weeks to pull out the healing compounds, creating tinctures that lasted years.
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