单词 | salivate |
释义 | † salivateadj. Obsolete. rare. = salivary adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [adjective] > secreting saliva salival1662 salivatory1699 salivary1709 salivate1710 salivating1829 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 181 It [sc. the gargle]..helps..the laxity of the salivale [perh. for salivate] Glands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2021). salivatev. 1. transitive. To produce an unusual secretion of saliva in (a person), generally by the use of mercury; to produce ptyalism in. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > cause to salivate flux1666 salivate1669 ptyalize1842 1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1050 I designe to salivate her, in hopes to correct that vitious ferment. 1722 W. Becket in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 109 Any Proof..that Persons had been Salivated in their Leprosy. 1827 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 7 Aug. (1884) I. 380 He gave Mr. C[anning] so much [mercury] that he actually salivated him. 1879 R. N. Khory Digest Med. 4 Quinine salivates a few. 2. intransitive. Thesaurus » Categories » a. To secrete or discharge saliva. b. To secrete saliva in excess under the influence of sialagogues. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > have disordered secretion [verb (intransitive)] > disordered salivation salivate1681 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Salivate, to spit. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Salivate, to gather or make Spittle. 1726 P. Huxham in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 381 Two adult Persons,..who neither salivated, nor purged, except when some lenient Catharticks were given them. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xviii. 259 Horses easilier salivate than Men. 1829 R. Christison Treat. Poisons (1832) xiii. 369 She immediately began to complain of soreness of the mouth, salivated profusely, and even put on the expression of countenance of a salivating person. 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 843 He [sc. an American] salivates for some threescore years,..and is gathered to his fathers, to spit no more. c. figurative. To display one's relish at some prospect or anticipated event, to ‘lick one's lips’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (transitive)] > with pleasure to promise oneself (something)1581 salivate1970 1970 Guardian 11 May 10/3 On May 1, the American military were delighted to be unleashed into the Cambodian sanctuaries. One officer said of his colleagues: ‘They've been salivating at the prospect of this for months.’ 1977 Times 1 Nov. 14/6 The double LP set has sold two million copies in America. Pye, who are marketing the records in Britain, are salivating at the sales prospects. Derivatives ˈsalivating n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > use of sialogogues salivating1658 fluxing1659 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [adjective] > secreting saliva > flowing in mouth > producing salivating1658 salivative1658 salivant1846 mouth-watering1847 sialagogue1855 sialagogic1891 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [adjective] > secreting saliva salival1662 salivatory1699 salivary1709 salivate1710 salivating1829 1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 101 As the Devil is fabled not able to hide his cloven foot, so Mercury will still be betraying its..salivating quality. 1676 R. Wiseman Lues Ven. in Severall Chirurg. Treat. 8 The methods of Salivating are divers, but all by Mercury. 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. ix. 513/2 It is more gentle than Turpethum Minerale, or any other salivating Precipitate. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Salivation A great French Physician, M. Chicoyneau,..has lately done some Discredit to the Practice of Salivating in any Manner. 1829 [see sense 2b]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1710v.1658 |
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