单词 | squinancy |
释义 | squinancyn. Now rare. 1. Quinsy; = squinsy n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of throat > [noun] > quinsy or tonsillitis squinacya1325 quinsyc1390 squinancy1398 squinancec1450 strangullion1481 squinsy1499 squince1538 angina1559 chokes1562 prunella1656 cynanche1706 tonsillitis1801 paristhmitis1817 amygdalitis1876 peritonsillitis1897 α. β. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 29 b/2 Shee may be opened agaynst the Squinantye.1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 6/1 A vehemente and great squinantie.1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxiv Þis yuel mater..bredith sqynancy þat sleeþ in on day. a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 51 For hym that haves the squynansy. ?1527 Iudycyall of Vryns ii. vii. 30 Humours that torneth in to apostume that is called Squinancia the squinancie. 1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 164 It that is purple in the floure..is good for the squinancie or choukes. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xii. 408 A good cure for the squinancie, but no satisfaction for lying. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 672 The Squinancy,..frequent there among Children. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Esquinancy A Disease, call'd also Angina, Squinancy, and popularly Quinzy. 1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 70 From which arises a loathing of their Food, suffocation in the Chops, and the Squinansy. 1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 63 John Anthony Soglia..gave his Observations on the gangrenous Squinancy in 1563. 2. A form or attack of quinsy; = squinsy n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of throat > [noun] > quinsy or tonsillitis > form or attack of squinsy1591 squinancy1611 pseudodiphtheria1894 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxi. 188 They shall be fettered with gowtes..strangled with Squinances [1596 Squinancies].] 1611 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 134 The lord chamberlain was dangerously sick on the sudden of a squinancy, or quinsey. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 170 If necessity inforceth, thou needest not stand to elect a time (as in Apoplexies and Squinancies). 1684 R. Boyle Exper. Porosity of Bodies iii. 29 The same Febril matter..causes in the first case a Pleurisie, in the 2d, a Squinancy. Compounds Special combinations. squinancy berry n. the black currant, Ribes nigrum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > currants St John's berry1561 currant1578 redcurrant1620 squinancy berry1782 garnet-berry1863 blackcurrant1895 1782 Encycl. Brit. IX. 6712/1 The fruit [black currants] is often called squinancy berries. 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Squinancy berries, black currants, from their use in the sore throat, Ribes nigrum. squinancy-wort n. (also †squinancy-woodruff) the quinsy-wort or small woodruff, Asperula cynanchica. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > woodruff > allied flowers woodruff1597 squinancy-wort1713 houstonia1764 quinsy wort1799 Venus's pride1845 bouvardia1846 Quaker ladies1871 1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Squinancy wort. 1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 307 A wild madder that grows in Wales and England on barren grounds, called Squinancy-wort; formerly used by the apothecaries, for the cure of a sore throat. 1777 E. Jacob Plantæ Favershamienses 98 Asperula Cynanchica, Squinancy Wort. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 186 Asperula cynanchica... Squinancy Woodroof. 1813 J. N. Brewer Beauties Eng. & Wales XII. ii. 21 The botanist will find here a great quantity of the Squinancy wort, or Synanchia Lugdunensis. 1900 W. H. Hudson Nature in Downland 54 Woodruff,..curiously named squinancy-wort. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1398 |
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