单词 | eye salve |
释义 | eye salven. Medicinal ointment for the eyes. Also figurative and in figurative contexts (frequently with allusion to Revelation 3:18; see quot. 1526). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > for the eyes eye salveeOE collyrie1382 collyriuma1398 oculus lucidusc1425 powder of welcome?1541 collyre1562 eye-water?1593 ophthalmic1650 celestial water1739 eye lotion1797 eserine1879 homatropine1880 eye drop1938–9 tropicamide1961 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > ointment > specific eye salveeOE diachylon1313 populeona1398 euphorbinec1400 marciaton?a1425 nerval?c1450 basilicon?1541 pilgrim-salvec1580 nerve oil1592 apostles' ointment1721 blue ointment1721 yellow basilicon1746 Kalydor1824 blue butter1838 Holloway's ointment1838 lip balm1853 chapstick1891 wool-wax1911 barrier cream1950 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. 2 (table of contents) Læcedomas..wiþ wyrmum on eagum & eagsealfa ælces cynnes. OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 53 Colliria, egsealfe. OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) iii. 240 For þam his [sc. heortes horn] man bruceþ on eagsealfe [?a1200 Harl. 6258B on eahsylfe; L. in colliriis ocularibus]. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1852 Hallȝhe læchedom & sawless eȝhe sallfe. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. iii. 18 Anoynt thyne eyes with eye salve, that thou mayste se. ?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) i. sig. G iiij Anoynt thyne eyes..with the eye salue of clerenes which is Iesus Christe. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxviii. 182 An eie salue made of the iuice of ground iuie. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 37 If we will but purge with sovrain eyesalve that intellectual ray which God hath planted in us. 1692 W. Molyneux Dioptrica Nova ii. vi. 252 The only Reliefs they had for their decayed Sights were certain Collyria or Eye-Salves. 1781 Hibernian Mag. Mar. 135 To anoint the eyes of the scarlet whore with eye-salve, that she see her wickedness! 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 203 Go, dress thine eye with eyesalve. 1844 E. C. Stedman Let. 7 Oct. in L. Stedman & G. M. Gould Life & Lett. (1910) I. ii. 32 I use that eye-salve you gave me every night, and my eyes are a great deal better for it. 1850 Eclectic Rev. July 59 His eye had been anointed with eye-salve, and he saw, as his poet-predecessors had done, the temple in which he was standing. 1959 E. E. Dale Frontier Ways x. 195 There were eye salves, eye water,..and ointments of many kinds. 1973 Texas Monthly Mar. 61/1 I felt my flesh tingling, felt the spirit reach down and anoint my eyes with holy eye salve. 2012 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 10 June While dealing with a particularly slow-to-heal eye infection, I had to put a gooey prescription eye salve in my eyes every night. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。