| 单词 | rough medicine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrough medicine 14. Of a remedy, esp. a purgative: violent in effect; strong, powerful. Frequently (and now chiefly) figurative, designating something violent or unpleasant that produces the desired result, esp. in rough medicine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > relating to powers or effects of drugs > powerful or vigorous vehement?1541 rough1598 generous1632 effrenate1657 effrenous1657 drastica1691 Herculean1755 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iii. xi. 80 Old inueterate diseases of the body cannot be cured, but by sharp and rough remedies. 1646 S. Rutherford Divine Right Church-govt. xii. 360 A sicke and diseased brother, under the roughest Medicine of the Church, to wit, the rod of Excommunication. 1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa i. xi. 9 The soft and smooth superficies of a Medicament, is to be preferr'd before the hard and rough. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. viii. 397 He..forced him to a quicker and a rougher remedy. 1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 284 His Purgative Medicines are generally very rough and strong. 1773 D. Garrick Let. 21 June (1963) II. 878 If you think ye Dr wants a rough purge to be cleans'd from his play-writing let it go as it is. 1827 New-Eng. Med. Rev. Apr. 164 Blood-letting, rough and depressing purgatives, and warm applications, are injurious. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. i. 73 The rough remedy of the cart-tail. 1907 F. Maclaren Graham of Claverhouse ii. i. 130 An unhappy soldier who is sent to settle them by the rough medicine of the sword. 1940 R. Austin in J. E. Lewis Mammoth Bk. Eyewitness i. 65 It was rough medicine. But the right medicine for the moment. 1992 J. Shapcott Phrase Bk. 43 Do you want to be an angel? I know the answer already and it's rough medicine. < as lemmas |
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