释义 |
mithridatize, v.|mɪˈθrɪdətaɪz| Also mithradatize. [f. L. Mithridāt-ēs (see mithridate) + -ize.] trans. To render immune or proof against a poison by the administration of gradually increasing doses of it. Also transf.
1866Lowell Lett. I. 406 Our constitutions adapt themselves to the slow poison of the world till we become mithridatized at last. 1889E. R. Lankester Adv. Sci. (1890) 114 Poisonous snakes are..mithridatised in regard to their own poison. Ibid., Thus the animal is mithridatised. 1889― in Nature 13 June 149 The utility of the related terms ‘mithradatize’ and ‘mithradatic’ is obvious. |