释义 |
narcotical, a. Now rare.|nɑːˈkɒtɪkəl| [f. prec. + -al1.] Of a narcotic nature; soporific.
1587Harmer tr. Beza's Serm. 421 Medicines which they call narcotical, that is to say such as benowme and ded the diseased. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 49 b/2, We must endevoure to mitigate the payne with Narcoticall thinges. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 113 Soft confections,..purging or narcoticall. 1695Westmacott Script. Herb. 25 The Chymical Oyl of Box-wood [is]..look'd upon to be highly Narcotical. 1831Fraser's Mag. III. 770 [He] drugged the readers..with narcotical essays upon currency. Hence narˈcotically adv.; narˈcoticalness (Ogilvie, 1850).
1654Whitlock Zootomia 222 As those things do, that passe for narcotically cold. 1811Byron Hints fr. Hor. 733 Hark to those notes, narcotically soft! The cobbler-laureats sing. 1890Blackw. Mag. CLXVIII. 22/1 The oppressive atmosphere of a narcotically perfumed boudoir. |