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单词 celidony
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celidonyn.1

Forms: Old English celeþonie, cyleþenie, Middle English celydony, seladony, celidoyne, celydoine, celydoun, 1500s celedonie, 1600s selidonye.
Etymology: < medieval Latin celedonia (in Pliny chelīdonia ) and Old French celidoine: compare celandine n.
Obsolete.
= celandine n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > greater celandine
celidonyc1000
celandinea1350
tetterworta1400
saladinec1430
swallow herb1578
swallowwort1578
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 41 Nim..celeþonian moran.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xlvi. (Tollem. MS.) By þe iuce of celidony swalowes yȝen turneþ aȝen to þe firste state, yf þey ben hurte or put oute.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 65/2 Celydony, herbe, celidonia.
a1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 36 Celidonia..gall. et angl. celidoyne.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 712 Hec celidonia, celydoun.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 786 Hec seladonia, a seladony.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 37 Celedonie..beareth a Saffron coloured flower.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 357 To bloudshotten eies it is good..to wash them with the iuice of Selidonye.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

Celidonyn.2

Etymology: < late Latin celidonius (in Pliny chelīdonius ), < Greek χελιδόνιος (λίθος) , < χελιδών swallow: see quot. 1621.
Obsolete.
A stone fabled to be found in the belly of a swallow: see quots. Cf. French chélidoine ‘pierre precieuse: petits cailloux appartenant aux agates: on dit aussi pierres d'hirondelle’ (Littré).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > stones associated with animals > [noun] > Celidony
selidonea1400
seladynec1420
saladinec1430
selondync1460
Chelidony1586
Celidony1661
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iv. i. iv. 442 In the belly of a swallow, there is a stone found called Celidonius, which if it be lapped in a faire cloath, and tied to the right arme, will cure lunaticks and mad men.]
1661 Sir H. Vane's Politicks 9 The Celedonie Stone, whose property it is to lose all its power and vertue, unless it be rub'd with gold.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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