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单词 phial
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phialn.

Brit. /ˈfʌɪəl/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)l/
Forms:

α. Middle English fialle, Middle English fiol, Middle English fyale, Middle English fyall, Middle English fyole, Middle English fyoll, Middle English 1600s fiole, Middle English–1500s fyol; N.E.D. also records forms Middle English fyolle.

β. Middle English 1600s phiole, Middle English– phial, 1500s phyall, 1500s–1600s phiall, 1600s–1700s phiol, 1600s–1700s phyal; Scottish pre-1700 phiale, pre-1700 phiol, pre-1700 phiole, pre-1700 phioll, pre-1700 phyoll, pre-1700 1700s– phial; N.E.D. also records forms Middle English phyall, Middle English phyalle.

See also vial n.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French fiole; Latin phiala.
Etymology: Partly < Middle French fiole, fyole, fiolle, phiole (beginning of the 13th cent. in Old French; French fiole ) < post-classical Latin phiola (frequently from c1200 in British sources; 6th cent. as fiola ), variant of classical Latin phiala (see below); and partly < classical Latin phiala a broad shallow dish, in post-classical Latin also in sense ‘phial’ (frequently from late 11th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek ϕιάλη phiale n. Compare Old Occitan fiola (1372; Occitan fiòla), Catalan fiola (14th cent.), Italian fiala (1321).
1. A vessel for holding liquids; (formerly generally) any of various types of containers for liquids, esp. drinks; (later) spec. a small, slim, sealable glass bottle for holding liquid medicine, drugs, chemicals, etc.Bologna, Leyden phial: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun]
chalicec825
napeOE
copc950
fullOE
cupc1000
canOE
shalec1075
scalec1230
maselin?a1300
mazer1311
richardine1352
dish1381
fiole1382
pece1383
phialc1384
gobletc1400
bowl-cup1420
chalice-cup1420
crusec1420
mazer-cup1434
goddard1439
stoup1452
bicker1459
cowl1476
tankard1485
stop1489
hanapa1513
skull1513
Maudlin cup1544
Magdalene cup?a1549
mazer bowl1562
skew1567
shell1577
godet1580
mazard1584
bousing-can1590
cushion1594
glove1609
rumkin1636
Maudlin pot1638
Pimlico1654
mazer dish1656
mug1664
tumbler1664
souce1688
streaker1694
ox-eye1703
false-cup1708
tankard-cup1745
poculum1846
phiale1867
tumbler-cup1900
stem-cup1915
sippy cup1986
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > phial or ampoule
cruetc1384
phialc1384
vialc1386
oil glass1580
thumb-bottle1727
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. v. 8 Golden fioles [a1425 L.V. violis] ful of saueringis, whiche ben the preyers of seyntis.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1476 (MED) Þe gobelotes of golde graven aboute, And fyoles fretted wyth flores and fleez of golde.
a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Num. vii. 79 A silueren fyol [a1425 L.V. viol] hauynge seuenti sicles at the weiȝt of the seyntuarie.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xiii. 47 The fyole fulle of the holi libacion.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 64 Lyquors destilled shoulde be kepte in glasen phialles with narow mouthes.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Amos vi. 6 You..that drinke wine in phials [1611 bowls].
1682 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech.: 2nd Pt. 12 A Glass Phial filled with Mercury.
1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 21 Feb. 2/1 Make a Powder, to be kept in a Phial close stopped.
1747 B. Franklin Let. 28 July in Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1751) 7 Set the electrified phial on one, and then touch the wire.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxix. 375 I found a crystal phial filled with essential oil of orange.
1824 Lancet 22 Feb. 267/1 The ammonia lost its stimulating properties, in consequence of the phial containing it being badly stopped.
1873 E. E. Hale In his Name iii. 16 What is the elixir in your phial?
1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 229 There was not much, but there was enough—an empty phial, another nearly full, a hypodermic syringe, several letters in a crabbed, foreign hand.
1959 Princ. Forced Circulation in Hot Water Heating Syst. (Sigmund Pumps Ltd.) (1960) 36 A temperature-sensitive phial is situated outside the house and this is connected to the mixing valve by means of a capillary tube.
1988 P. Sayer Comforts of Madness (1989) vi. 43 Each day he gave me an injection or two of a sickly-smelling substance which came in two brown phials.
2003 Independent 21 Jan. 2/6 The packages, discovered at about 11am at West Bay in Dorset, also contained phials of the drug dimercaprol, which acts as an antidote to heavy metal poisoning.
2. figurative. With allusion to Revelation 5:8, 16:1 (see quot. c1384 at sense 1, and cf. vial n. b). Now rare.
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c1450 (?c1425) E. Hull tr. Seven Psalms (1995) 74 Eueriche, as þe lettre seythe, had þer harpys and þer phyoles ful of suete sauours, þe whiche be þe oreysons of seyntys.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 12 That my Prayers being..presented in the Phial of the Saints may ascend..Where thy glory dwells.
1677 S. Speed Prison-pietie 141 The fierce dreadful fire Of thine Ire, And Phials thou shalt make Us sinners drink.
1750 E. Young Complaint (new ed.) i. 53 The Phial of thy Vengeance, pour'd On this devoted Head.
1773 H. Mackenzie Man of World I. xxx. 338 If thou hast not yet punished me enough, continue to pour out the phials of thy wrath upon me, and enable me to support what thou inflictest!
1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage III. ii. 20 On the present occasion, her injudicious friend was only brewing phials of wrath for her.
1881 D. G. Rossetti House of Life xc Wait the turning of the phials of wrath For certain years.
a1972 C. Day Lewis Compl. Poems (1992) 584 Turning keys upon the dials Shall unloose the furious phials; Then the trumpeting blasts be heard.

Compounds

phial-book n. Obsolete
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1851 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 688/2 ‘Coming;—tears—caustic,’ repeated the homœopathist, pulling out his handkerchief and his phial-book together.
1851 Internat. Mag. July 547/1 He suddenly started up, and again extracted his phial-book.
phial glass n.
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1590 Edinb. Test. XXI. f. 311v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) lxxv Danskene phyoll glas at xl the hundreth.
1762 D. Garrick Cymbeline iii. vii. 49 Here is a Phial Glass What's in't is precious.
1821 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 111 64 5 grains were passed over peroxide of copper in a tube made of green phial glass.
1924 J. F. Kelly Early Domest. Architect. Connecticut ix. 97Phial glass’ was of poor quality, greenish in color and streaked with air bubbles.
2005 Jrnl. Glass Stud. 47 143/2 Cist's formulas for making crown glass,..English phial glass, green phial glass, and black bottle glass.

Derivatives

phialed adj. Obsolete rare contained in a phial.
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a1763 W. Shenstone Love & Honour 164 Full on my fenceless head its phial'd wrath May Fate exhaust.
ˈphial-ful n. as much as fills a phial.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > vial
phial-ful1770
vialful1886
1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 219 The liquor being shaken, and another phial-full taken up soon after.
1852–3 J. D. B. De Bow Industr. Resources Southern & Western States 242/2 A wine-glass or small phial full being collected, is held between the flame of a candle and the eye.
1996 Financial Times (Nexis) 17 Feb. p. ii Feeling a little quiver in the stomach I quickly gulped a phial full.
ˈphial-like adj. rare
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxix. 81 Eggs..of a long phial-like form.
1995 Evening Standard (Nexis) 15 Aug. 21 What Madeira producers should do..is put vintage Madeira into elegant, phial-like quarter-bottles, so that the acquisition of these elixirs is within the reach of all.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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