| 单词 | dolorifuge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdolorifuge Forming adjectives and nouns. In imitation of the anglicized forms of the loans from Latin, nonce-words in -fuge have occasionally been formed; chiefly on Latin stems, as demonifuge n., dolorifuge, something to drive away pain; but occasionally on English words, as mendacity-fuge. ΚΠ 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. v. iv. 429 In all purely pecuniary cases, to which the virtue of the mendacity-fuge diaphoretic does not extend. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. vi. 86 The children..had made use of this idea..as a species of dolorifuge after the death of the horse. < as lemmas |
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