mithridaten.

Brit.

/ˈmɪθrᵻdeɪt/, U.S.

/ˈmɪθrəˌdeɪt/

Forms: 1500s mithridat, 1500s mithrydate, 1500s mitridat, 1500s–1600s methridat, 1500s–1600s methridate, 1500s–1600s metridat, 1500s–1600s metridate, 1500s–1600s mitridate, 1500s–1600s mythridate, 1500s– mithridate, 1600s medridate, 1600s methredate, 1600s mithrydat.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French methridat; Latin metridatum, mithridatium, Mithridātīus.

Etymology: < Middle French methridat, metridat, mitridate, Middle French mithridat (c1314 in Old French as metridaton denoting a remedy for a scorpion sting; French mithridate ) and its etymon post-classical Latin metridatum, mitridatum (a1250 in a British source), mithridatum (15th cent.), alteration of mithridatium (5th cent.), use as noun of neuter of classical Latin Mithridātīus, Mithridātēus relating to Mithridates (compare Hellenistic Greek Μιθριδάτειος , Μιθραδάτειος ) < Mithridātēs (Hellenistic Greek Μιθριδάτης , Μιθραδάτης ), the name of Mithridates VI, king of Pontus (died c63 b.c.), who was said to have rendered himself proof against poisons by the constant use of antidotes + -eus (see -eous suffix). Compare slightly earlier mithridatum n.Compare Italian mitridato (14th cent.), Catalan metridat (14th cent.), Spanish mitridato (1506), Portuguese mitridátio, mithridato, German Mithridat (16th cent.). Both Latin and Greek adjectives are used to designate antidotes or other medicines: classical Latin Mithridatium antidotum (Pliny); Hellenistic Greek Μιθριδάτειος ἀντίδοτος, Μιθριδάτεια ϕάρμακα.

a. Any of various medicinal preparations, usually in the form of an electuary compounded of many ingredients, believed to be a universal antidote to poison or a panacea. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

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

universal1656

diacatholicon1665

panacaeon1684

panacya1690

panchrest1728

universality1756

cure-all1870

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun]

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mithridate1528

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correctory1608

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alexipharmic1628

alexiteric1655

deletery1657

obsistent1657

vincetoxic1658

bezoardic1671

alexiterial1673

alexiterian1681

therial1912

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni (1541) 33 b Auicen saythe; There be certeyne medicins..which wyl not suffre poyson to approche nere the harte, as triacle and Metridate.

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) A ij Mithridates invented the famous medicine ageynst poyson, callid Mithridate.

1593 S. Kellwaye Defensatiue against Plague 32 Take a great Onyon, make a hole in the myddle of him, then fill the place with Mitridat or Triacle, and some leaues of Rue.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xxxiii. 495 Some make a soueraigne mithridate against the plague..with two old walnuts, three figges [etc.].

1686 T. D'Urfey Common-wealth of Women v. ii. 47 Fools may talk of Mythridate, Cordials, Elixers.

1758 R. Brown Compl. Farmer (1759) 96 Anoint it with some honey or mithridate.

1791 Philos. Trans. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 292 The officinals which have kept their ground..under the names of Mithridate and Venice Treacle.

1802 W. Gifford tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 959 Yet, if the husband, prescient of his fate, Have fortified his breast with mithridate.

1825 W. Scott Betrothed i, in Tales Crusaders II. 20 Their rash recipes, their mithridate,..their amulets, and their charms.

1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 520/2 Malabathrum,..the leaves of a tree of the East Indies. These leaves entered into the theriac, mithridate, and other electuaries.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘I'll bray thee to a mithridate,’ a soft medicinal confection; equivalent to the threat of ‘beating to a mummy’, or pulpy mass.

1932 Sci. Monthly Sept. 244/1 He [sc. Andromachus], like King Mithridates, was a compounder of antidotes, or, as they came to be called after their royal inventor, ‘mithridates’. The mithridate of Andromachus was even more complicated than the original.

1973 Science 8 June 1005/1 The King of Pontus dabbled in medicine and defrauded Europeans with mithridate and theriac.

1990 H. L. Klawans Newton's Madness xiii. 127 What he wanted, in effect, was a universal antidote, which medical science has for years referred to as a mithridate.

b. In extended use: any healing or restoring agency or influence. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > a cure or remedy

leechcraftc888

leechdoma900

bootOE

helpc1000

pigment?a1200

remedya1382

medicinea1393

application?a1425

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healer?1523

recovery1576

curative1577

mithridate1587

cure1623

presidy1657

therapeutic1842

therapeutical1845

1587 A. Day tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe i. sig. C3^v The contemplation was a mithridate to a pestered conceipted minde.

1592 J. Lyly Midas iv. iv. 47 That which maketh me most both to sorrow and wonder, is that musick (a methridat for melancholy) should make him mad.

1597 R. Tofte Laura iii. xii. sig. D6^v Cordiall of hart, right Methridate of loue.

1622 in Naworth Estate & Househ. Accts. (1958) 458 Y^e l're..was medridate to his hart.

1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour iv. iv. sig. I3^v In this breach of faith My loyalty findes reward! what poysons him Proves Mithridate to me!

1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 345 [Love is] a drop of the true elixir, no mithridate so effectual against the infection of vice.

1909 E. Gosse Autumn Garden 3 Can we draw a sweetness from this cynic saw, Or of this mithridate distil An antidote for life's long ill?

†2. = mithridate mustard n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers

Raphanusa1398

watercress?a1450

boor's mustard1548

dish-mustard1548

rocket1548

treacle mustard1548

heal-dog1551

Thlaspi1562

candy mustard1597

Grecian mustard1597

Italian rocket1597

knave's mustard1597

madwort1597

mithridate mustard1597

moonwort1597

mithridate1605

wall-rocket1611

broom-wort1614

candytuft1629

draba1629

Turkey cress1633

rock cress1650

shepherd's cress1713

pennycress1714

alyssum1731

arabis1756

tower mustard1760

faverel1770

molewort1770

stinkweed1793

wall cabbage1796

wall-cress1796

awl-wort1797

sickle-pod1846

Kerguelen cabbage1847

sun cress1848

sand rocket1854

wall mustard1904

buckler-mustard-

tower-cress-

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 177 Take of..the treacles of mythridate, and the confection of hiacinth, of each 2 ounces.

a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 192 I took a good quantity of mithridate and wood-sorrel.

1780 J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain ii. xvi. 368 A high mountain covered with mithridate.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

mithridate confection n.

ΚΠ

1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal (1967) II. 571 It [sc. mithridate mustard] was formerly an ingredient in the Mithridate confection.

† mithridate julep n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xvi. 762/1 The Mithridate Julep against Fits of the Mother.

C2.

† mithridate cress n. Obsolete rare pennycress, Thlaspi arvense.

ΚΠ

1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. xix. 39 The ground about my tent was covered with grasses and sedges,..besides cultivated weeds of shepherd's-purse, dock, mustard, Mithridate cress [etc.].

mithridate mustard n. (a) pepperwort, Lepidium campestre, a plant of the family Brassicaceae ( Cruciferae) once credited with great medicinal virtues (now rare, perhaps obsolete); (b) pennycress, Thlaspi arvense; †(c) (with distinguishing word) any of several other plants of the family Brassicaceae ( Cruciferae), including kinds of candytuft (genus Iberis) (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers

Raphanusa1398

watercress?a1450

boor's mustard1548

dish-mustard1548

rocket1548

treacle mustard1548

heal-dog1551

Thlaspi1562

candy mustard1597

Grecian mustard1597

Italian rocket1597

knave's mustard1597

madwort1597

mithridate mustard1597

moonwort1597

mithridate1605

wall-rocket1611

broom-wort1614

candytuft1629

draba1629

Turkey cress1633

rock cress1650

shepherd's cress1713

pennycress1714

alyssum1731

arabis1756

tower mustard1760

faverel1770

molewort1770

stinkweed1793

wall cabbage1796

wall-cress1796

awl-wort1797

sickle-pod1846

Kerguelen cabbage1847

sun cress1848

sand rocket1854

wall mustard1904

buckler-mustard-

tower-cress-

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [adjective]

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mithridate mustard1760

iberis1768

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brassic1879

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 206 Mythridate Mustard. The roote is long and slender.

1653 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 357 Methridate mustard... It is an especial Ingredient unto Methridate and Treacle, being of it self an Antidote resisting poyson, venom, and putrefaction.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Thlaspi Thlaspi Creticum... Candy Mithridate Mustard,..commonly call'd Candy Tuft.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 319 Mithridate Mustard, Bastard, Iberis.

1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I. at Thlaspi The Thlaspi campestre Linn. or mithridate-mustard.

1854 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 87 Thlaspi arvense (Mithridate Mustard, or Penny-cress).

1885 Science 27 Nov. 469/1 The Thlaspi arvensis, or mithridate mustard, commonly known as ‘penny cress’, is a great nuisance in the Red River valley.

1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal (1967) II. 571 Mithridate Mustard, Thlaspi arvense, grows higher than Treacle Mustard.

1974 F. N. Howes Dict. Useful Plants 170 Mithridate mustard, Thlaspi arvense.

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 232 Field Penny-cress, Treacle or Mithridate Mustard... You're not going to grow this plant for its flowers.

† mithridate pennywort n. Obsolete rare pepperwort, Lepidium campestre.

ΚΠ

1831 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora (ed. 2) 296 L[epidium] campestre (common Mithridate Pepper-wort).

1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 337 Mithridate Pepperwort is a book-name for L. campestre.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mithridate
释义	mithridaten. Brit. /ˈmɪθrᵻdeɪt/, U.S. /ˈmɪθrəˌdeɪt/ Forms: 1500s mithridat, 1500s mithrydate, 1500s mitridat, 1500s–1600s methridat, 1500s–1600s methridate, 1500s–1600s metridat, 1500s–1600s metridate, 1500s–1600s mitridate, 1500s–1600s mythridate, 1500s– mithridate, 1600s medridate, 1600s methredate, 1600s mithrydat. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French methridat; Latin metridatum, mithridatium, Mithridātīus. Etymology: < Middle French methridat, metridat, mitridate, Middle French mithridat (c1314 in Old French as metridaton denoting a remedy for a scorpion sting; French mithridate ) and its etymon post-classical Latin metridatum, mitridatum (a1250 in a British source), mithridatum (15th cent.), alteration of mithridatium (5th cent.), use as noun of neuter of classical Latin Mithridātīus, Mithridātēus relating to Mithridates (compare Hellenistic Greek Μιθριδάτειος , Μιθραδάτειος ) < Mithridātēs (Hellenistic Greek Μιθριδάτης , Μιθραδάτης ), the name of Mithridates VI, king of Pontus (died c63 b.c.), who was said to have rendered himself proof against poisons by the constant use of antidotes + -eus (see -eous suffix). Compare slightly earlier mithridatum n.Compare Italian mitridato (14th cent.), Catalan metridat (14th cent.), Spanish mitridato (1506), Portuguese mitridátio, mithridato, German Mithridat (16th cent.). Both Latin and Greek adjectives are used to designate antidotes or other medicines: classical Latin Mithridatium antidotum (Pliny); Hellenistic Greek Μιθριδάτειος ἀντίδοτος, Μιθριδάτεια ϕάρμακα. 1. a. Any of various medicinal preparations, usually in the form of an electuary compounded of many ingredients, believed to be a universal antidote to poison or a panacea. Now historical. ΘΚΠ 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 universal1656 diacatholicon1665 panacaeon1684 panacya1690 panchrest1728 universality1756 cure-all1870 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] atterlothec1000 treacle1340 theriaclec1400 theriacc1440 mithridate1528 antidote1543 counter-poison1548 pazar1563 antidotary1583 alexipharmac1585 alexipharmacum1590 bezoar1597 alexitery1604 corrector1605 counterbane1605 alexipharmacal1608 correctory1608 corrective1612 alexipharmic1628 alexiteric1655 deletery1657 obsistent1657 vincetoxic1658 bezoardic1671 alexiterial1673 alexiterian1681 therial1912 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni (1541) 33 b Auicen saythe; There be certeyne medicins..which wyl not suffre poyson to approche nere the harte, as triacle and Metridate. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) A ij Mithridates invented the famous medicine ageynst poyson, callid Mithridate. 1593 S. Kellwaye Defensatiue against Plague 32 Take a great Onyon, make a hole in the myddle of him, then fill the place with Mitridat or Triacle, and some leaues of Rue. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xxxiii. 495 Some make a soueraigne mithridate against the plague..with two old walnuts, three figges [etc.]. 1686 T. D'Urfey Common-wealth of Women v. ii. 47 Fools may talk of Mythridate, Cordials, Elixers. 1758 R. Brown Compl. Farmer (1759) 96 Anoint it with some honey or mithridate. 1791 Philos. Trans. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 292 The officinals which have kept their ground..under the names of Mithridate and Venice Treacle. 1802 W. Gifford tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 959 Yet, if the husband, prescient of his fate, Have fortified his breast with mithridate. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed i, in Tales Crusaders II. 20 Their rash recipes, their mithridate,..their amulets, and their charms. 1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 520/2 Malabathrum,..the leaves of a tree of the East Indies. These leaves entered into the theriac, mithridate, and other electuaries. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘I'll bray thee to a mithridate,’ a soft medicinal confection; equivalent to the threat of ‘beating to a mummy’, or pulpy mass. 1932 Sci. Monthly Sept. 244/1 He [sc. Andromachus], like King Mithridates, was a compounder of antidotes, or, as they came to be called after their royal inventor, ‘mithridates’. The mithridate of Andromachus was even more complicated than the original. 1973 Science 8 June 1005/1 The King of Pontus dabbled in medicine and defrauded Europeans with mithridate and theriac. 1990 H. L. Klawans Newton's Madness xiii. 127 What he wanted, in effect, was a universal antidote, which medical science has for years referred to as a mithridate. b. In extended use: any healing or restoring agency or influence. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > a cure or remedy leechcraftc888 leechdoma900 bootOE helpc1000 pigment?a1200 remedya1382 medicinea1393 application?a1425 sanativec1440 healer?1523 recovery1576 curative1577 mithridate1587 cure1623 presidy1657 therapeutic1842 therapeutical1845 1587 A. Day tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe i. sig. C3^v The contemplation was a mithridate to a pestered conceipted minde. 1592 J. Lyly Midas iv. iv. 47 That which maketh me most both to sorrow and wonder, is that musick (a methridat for melancholy) should make him mad. 1597 R. Tofte Laura iii. xii. sig. D6^v Cordiall of hart, right Methridate of loue. 1622 in Naworth Estate & Househ. Accts. (1958) 458 Y^e l're..was medridate to his hart. 1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour iv. iv. sig. I3^v In this breach of faith My loyalty findes reward! what poysons him Proves Mithridate to me! 1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 345 [Love is] a drop of the true elixir, no mithridate so effectual against the infection of vice. 1909 E. Gosse Autumn Garden 3 Can we draw a sweetness from this cynic saw, Or of this mithridate distil An antidote for life's long ill? †2. = mithridate mustard n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers Raphanusa1398 watercress?a1450 boor's mustard1548 dish-mustard1548 rocket1548 treacle mustard1548 heal-dog1551 Thlaspi1562 candy mustard1597 Grecian mustard1597 Italian rocket1597 knave's mustard1597 madwort1597 mithridate mustard1597 moonwort1597 mithridate1605 wall-rocket1611 broom-wort1614 candytuft1629 draba1629 Turkey cress1633 rock cress1650 shepherd's cress1713 pennycress1714 alyssum1731 arabis1756 tower mustard1760 faverel1770 molewort1770 stinkweed1793 wall cabbage1796 wall-cress1796 awl-wort1797 sickle-pod1846 Kerguelen cabbage1847 sun cress1848 sand rocket1854 wall mustard1904 buckler-mustard- tower-cress- 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 177 Take of..the treacles of mythridate, and the confection of hiacinth, of each 2 ounces. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 192 I took a good quantity of mithridate and wood-sorrel. 1780 J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain ii. xvi. 368 A high mountain covered with mithridate. Compounds C1. General attributive. mithridate confection n. ΚΠ 1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal (1967) II. 571 It [sc. mithridate mustard] was formerly an ingredient in the Mithridate confection. † mithridate julep n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xvi. 762/1 The Mithridate Julep against Fits of the Mother. C2. † mithridate cress n. Obsolete rare pennycress, Thlaspi arvense. ΚΠ 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. xix. 39 The ground about my tent was covered with grasses and sedges,..besides cultivated weeds of shepherd's-purse, dock, mustard, Mithridate cress [etc.]. mithridate mustard n. (a) pepperwort, Lepidium campestre, a plant of the family Brassicaceae ( Cruciferae) once credited with great medicinal virtues (now rare, perhaps obsolete); (b) pennycress, Thlaspi arvense; †(c) (with distinguishing word) any of several other plants of the family Brassicaceae ( Cruciferae), including kinds of candytuft (genus Iberis) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers Raphanusa1398 watercress?a1450 boor's mustard1548 dish-mustard1548 rocket1548 treacle mustard1548 heal-dog1551 Thlaspi1562 candy mustard1597 Grecian mustard1597 Italian rocket1597 knave's mustard1597 madwort1597 mithridate mustard1597 moonwort1597 mithridate1605 wall-rocket1611 broom-wort1614 candytuft1629 draba1629 Turkey cress1633 rock cress1650 shepherd's cress1713 pennycress1714 alyssum1731 arabis1756 tower mustard1760 faverel1770 molewort1770 stinkweed1793 wall cabbage1796 wall-cress1796 awl-wort1797 sickle-pod1846 Kerguelen cabbage1847 sun cress1848 sand rocket1854 wall mustard1904 buckler-mustard- tower-cress- the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [adjective] churlish1597 mithridate mustard1760 iberis1768 cruciferous1850 brassic1879 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 206 Mythridate Mustard. The roote is long and slender. 1653 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 357 Methridate mustard... It is an especial Ingredient unto Methridate and Treacle, being of it self an Antidote resisting poyson, venom, and putrefaction. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Thlaspi Thlaspi Creticum... Candy Mithridate Mustard,..commonly call'd Candy Tuft. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 319 Mithridate Mustard, Bastard, Iberis. 1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I. at Thlaspi The Thlaspi campestre Linn. or mithridate-mustard. 1854 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 87 Thlaspi arvense (Mithridate Mustard, or Penny-cress). 1885 Science 27 Nov. 469/1 The Thlaspi arvensis, or mithridate mustard, commonly known as ‘penny cress’, is a great nuisance in the Red River valley. 1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal (1967) II. 571 Mithridate Mustard, Thlaspi arvense, grows higher than Treacle Mustard. 1974 F. N. Howes Dict. Useful Plants 170 Mithridate mustard, Thlaspi arvense. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 232 Field Penny-cress, Treacle or Mithridate Mustard... You're not going to grow this plant for its flowers. † mithridate pennywort n. Obsolete rare pepperwort, Lepidium campestre. ΚΠ 1831 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora (ed. 2) 296 L[epidium] campestre (common Mithridate Pepper-wort). 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 337 Mithridate Pepperwort is a book-name for L. campestre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1528
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