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Orvietan Obs. exc. Hist.|ɔːvɪˈiːtən|
[ad. F. orviétan (1642 in Hatz.-Darm.) or It. orvietano, f. Orvieto, the inventor being a native of Orvieto in Italy.]
A composition formerly held to be an antidote against poisons; ‘Venice Treacle’. Hence gen. and fig. An antidote.
1676Phil. Trans. XI. 760 The Orvietan and ptisane of Lupins do considerable good to the persons distempered. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Orvietan, an Alexipharmick Electuary, invented by a Mountebank, who was called Orvietanus. 1702S. Parker tr. Cicero's De Finibus i. 44 Our Natural Philosophy is our Orvitan against the Fears of Death. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1756) I. 310, I knew some Gentlemen who esteem'd the Thing..as a grand Orvietan or Counter-Poison. 1821Scott Kenilw. xiii, With these drugs will I..compound the true orvietan. Note, Orvietan, or Venice treacle, as it was sometimes called, was understood to be a sovereign remedy against poison. |