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单词 allheal
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allhealn.

Brit. /ˈɔːlˌhiːl/, U.S. /ˈɔlˌhil/, /ˈɑlˌhil/
Forms: see all adj. and heal v.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all pron. and n., heal v.1
Etymology: < all pron. and n. + heal v.1; compare heal n. 1b. Compare earlier self-heal n. and heal-all n. Compare also earlier panacea n. and panace n.In sense 1(d) after classical Latin omnia sānāns, alleged name of the mistletoe among the Gauls (Pliny), lit. ‘healing everything’.
1. Any of various plants used (esp. formerly) in herbal medicine, reputed to be effective in treating a variety of conditions; spec. (a) opopanax, Opopanax chironium; (b) marsh betony, Stachys palustris; (c) yarrow, Achillea millefolium; (d) mistletoe, Viscum album; (e) self-heal, Prunella vulgaris; (f) valerian, Valeriana officinalis. Now chiefly historical.clown's, Hercules', Saracen's all heal: see the first element.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > mistletoe
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mistletoeOE
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mistletoe tree1562
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific plant > mistletoe
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 850 Hercules Alheale or Woundwoort.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 851 Clownes Woundwoort, or Alheale.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes The hearb Yarrow, All-heale, Nose-bleed, or Milfoile.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xliv. 497 They call it [sc. mistletoe] in their language All-Heale, (for they have an opinion of it, that it cureth all maladies whatsoeuer) [Fr. guerison de toute maladie, L. omnia sanantem].
1665 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια (ed. 2) 315 Opoponax-wort, see Alheale.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Cancer Take the Flowers and Stems of the Herb All-Heal (the Flowers are white and very small).
a1726 H. Barham Hortus Americanus (1794) 171 These herbs are called in Latin prunella, or alheal or self-heal.
1773 W. Lewis tr. C. Neumann Chem. Wks. (ed. 2) II. 53 Opopanax is the juice of an umbelliferous plant called Panax or All-heal.
1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 461 Galeopsis... Allheal. Hemp-leaved Dead-Nettle. Blossoms purple. By the roadside.
1830 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora 15 The leaves [of Valeriana officinalis] are much used by the poor as an application to fresh wounds; hence the plant has received the name of all-heal.
1853 Eng. Forests & Forest Trees ii. 30 They choose the sixth day..and they call the mistletoe by the name of all-heal.
1876 R. Rowe Child’s Corner Bk. 14 It was such a lonely place, with water-hens swimming about, and long hairy-leaved all-heal dipping its red blossoms into the still green water.
1909 Scribner's Mag. July 645/1 Standing upright among the branches of the tree, he cropped the sacred All-Heal, or mistletoe, amid the pious chanting of the priests.
1912 Amer. Homes & Gardens Mar. 76/1 (caption) The spicy-scented Valerian is the stately flower which our great-grandmothers used to call Allheal.
1923 Jrnl. N.Y. Bot. Garden 24 256 In the same locality were found growing: Blue Cardinal Flower (Lobelia syphilitica), All-heal (Prunella vulgaris)..and Deergrass (Rhexia virginica).
1984 Times 22 Dec. 15/1 Devil's fuge, all heal and even bird lime are but some of the common names of mistletoe, Viscum album.
2001 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 30 June (Good Weekend section) 50 I don't know about ‘allheal’, but in the garden yarrow's thug-like qualities can make it ‘all-consuming’.
2. Something that is reputed to heal all wounds or diseases; a universal remedy, a panacea. Also figurative. Cf. heal-all n. 1.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > universal medicine
mithridatum1526
mithridate1528
mithridaticon?1544
panacea1548
mithridatium1559
heal-all1577
catholicon1611
panchreston1623
allheal1630
panpharmacon1649
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diacatholicon1665
panacaeon1684
panacya1690
panchrest1728
universality1756
cure-all1870
1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium v. 49 This All-heale..New wounds so quickly healing.
1653 N. Hookes Miscellanea Poetica in Amanda 109 There is no all-heal, but a funeral.
1693 W. Cockburn tr. W. Harris Exact Enq. Acute Dis. Infants 54 Galen did most straitly bar Children from the use of his Treacle,..which..he so highly esteemed, that he thought it an All-heal and Universal Remedy.
1742 A. Gib Warning against Ministrations G. Whitefield 34 The Panacea, the all-heal Medicine that he applies to the divided Church.
1838 W. Finden et al. Views of Ports & Harbours 79 It [sc. the water] was in a short time pronounced an all-heal, and the people of the place took it as their usual physic.
1896 Indian Antiquary May 128 The worldwide tendency to record hits and forget misses raises the gem to the glory of an all-heal.
1918 J. A. Cramb Rule of Might vi. 166 And still they spoke of Jesus, as if that nursery tale..were an all-heal.
1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 324 Gerard felt that he had discovered an all-heal.
2005 J. A. Gardner & K. Bussolini Elegant Silvers iv. 103 Bugle..was regarded as an ‘all-heal’ because it was used for outward and inward complaints.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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