单词 | orvietan |
释义 | orvietann. Now historical. A medicinal preparation held to be a universal antidote against poisons; an alexipharmic electuary. Hence, more generally and figurative: an antidote. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1654 |
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