单词 | acopon |
释义 | † acoponn.α. 1500s–1700s acopum, 1700s accopum. β. 1600s–1700s acopon. Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Obsolete. A remedy for weariness or pain, typically in the form of a paste or oil; spec. such a remedy used to treat horses.In quot. 1632 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun] > soothing medicine lenitive1563 acopon1566 mitigator1586 diminutive1596 assuagement1599 mitigatory1656 levative1657 lenient1672 balsamic1713 demulcent1732 assuasive1829 mitigant1838 obtundent1842 torpent1882 chill pill1981 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. xxv. f. 21v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe The receyt of the medicine or oyntment called Acopum. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xxix. vi. 366 Likewise young mice are imploied to the same purpose, being braied in a mortar with old wine to the consistence of those medicines which be called Acopa, and prepared to dissolue lassitudes. 1632 R. Winterton in R. Winterton tr. J. Drexel Considerations Eternitie (Epist. to Reader) sig. A9 It is an Acopon for all weerinesse, an Anodynon for all pains. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 82 Old oile boiled to the temper and thicknesse of an Acopon, helpeth all vices of the nerves, and paines. 1681 E. R. Experienced Farrier (ed. 2) 381 Let his Back and Fillets be kept warm, and anoint him with Acopum. 1735 Sportsman's Dict. I Acopum, a fomentation to allay the sense of weariness; also a medicine for horses, used for the same purpose. 1759 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. Accopum, or Acopum, in the farrier's dispensatory, a topical medicine used by the antients, both externally as an ointment or charge, and internally, as an electuary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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