单词 | euphrasia |
释义 | Euphrasian. 1. Botany. = euphrasy n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > eyebright euphrasy?a1500 eyebright1538 Euphrasia1706 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 > euphrasia euphrasy?a1500 eyebright1538 Euphrasia1706 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Euphragia or Euphrasia, the Herb Eye-bright. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind vi. 123 The Euphrasia, or eye-bright, was, and is, supposed to be good for the eyes. 2. In etymological sense: Cheerfulness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] blithenessc1000 blithec1400 cheerfulness1435 chertec1449 jocundness1482 hilarity1568 cheerliness1571 good humour1571 exhilaration1626 cheerishness1645 geniality1652 jocundry1655 cheeriness1658 brightness1660 shine1710 flow of spirits1716 sunshine1717 genialness1727 festiveness1777 sunniness1829 riancy1834 gleesomeness1847 Euphrasia1882 hilariousness1885 blithesomeness1886 gayness1896 1882 W. H. Smith tr. T. A. Ribot Dis. Memory ii. 109 An organic lesion..may transform the cœnæsthesis..producing undue joyousness..of which the most striking example is seen in the euphrasia of the dying. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1706 |
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