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单词 orvietan
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orvietann.

Brit. /ˌɔːvɪˈeɪtn/, /ˌɔːvɪˈiːtn/, U.S. /ˌɔrviˈeɪtn/, /ˌɔrviˈitn/
Forms: 1600s orvietane, 1600s–1800s orvietan, 1700s orvieton, 1700s orvitan, 1900s– orviétan. Also with capital initial.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French orviétan; Italian orvietano.
Etymology: < French orviétan (1625) or its probable etymon Italian orvietano (1633 as †Orvetano , but probably earlier) < Orvieto , the name of a city in central Italy (see Orvieto n.) + -ano -an suffix, the inventor, Girolamo Ferrante, being a native of this city.Recorded earlier in English context in the form Orviatano in the following:1647 S. Winter Nothing without God (single sheet) He hath also a singular Antidote, or counter poison, called Orviatano, very good against all poison, soveraigne against the Plague, the Collick, gripings of the guts, and all manner of surfets. In form orvieton perhaps an alteration for the purposes of rhyme:1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. i. 23 My last rare Med'cine, and the best, Fam'd thro' the World above the rest, Is to all Courts and Kingdoms known By th' Name of my Orvieton.
Now historical.
A medicinal preparation held to be a universal antidote against poisons; an alexipharmic electuary. Hence, more generally and figurative: an antidote.
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the world > action or operation > [noun] > contrary operation or action > that which
antidote1548
orvietan1654
counteracter1805
counter-agent1821
counteraction1822
counteractive1848
counteractant1884
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] > other antidotes
unicorn's horn1590
orvietan1654
1654 Weekly Intelligencer 11 Apr. 223 We are once more desired to mention Mr. Isaac Playford Student and Practitioner in Physick and Chirurgery, Resident in Kings street in Covent-garden.., to let the Nation understand that he can make the Antidote called Orivetan[sic], so much renowned all over Europe, which is a Remedy incident to most Diseases incident to Mankind.
1665 R. Boyle Let. 14 June in Corr. (2001) II. 479 There were taken 3 doggs, which were bit in the Nose by Vipers, And..to 2 of them..Treacle and the Orvietane Electuary were fruitlesly exhibited.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 760 The Orvietan and ptisane of Lupins do considerable good to the persons distempered.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Orvietan, an Alexipharmick Electuary, invented by a Mountebank, who was called Orvietanus.
1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus i. 44 Our Natural Philosophy is our Orvitan against the Fears of Death.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxxvii. 528 I knew some Gentlemen who esteem'd the Thing..as a grand Orvietan or Counter-Poison.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. i. 17 With these drugs will I..compound the true orvietan.
1851 Harper's Mag. Sept. 491/2 He played comedy, sold orvietan..and, in a word, passed through all the degrees which lead to downright robbery.
1996 Amer. Hist. Rev. 101 31 Orviétan, habitually peddled by itinerant mountebanks, was the most charlatanesque of all secret remedies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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