单词 | stupefier |
释义 | stupefiern. Now rare. A medicinal agent or other substance that causes loss or impairment of physical sensation or consciousness (cf. stupor n. 1a). Occasionally also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > stupefying drug stupefactive?a1425 stupefaction1651 stupefacient1661 stupefier1661 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [noun] > state of physical stupefaction > physically stupefying > that which duller1620 stupefier1661 intoxicant1757 inebriant1813 stuporific1853 dullification1855 1661 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. D. Sennert Art Chirurg.: 5th Bk. Pract. Physick ii. xix. 2593/1 Some there are that before they set upon the Section do prescribe some kind of Narcotick Medicament..but Fallopius much blameth these; for (as he saith) gentle and sleight stupefiers [L. soporifera] benefit little or nothing. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 280 The violence of the Pain sometimes forces us of necessity to apply Stupefiers [L. stupefacientia]. 1736 G. Berkeley Querist: Pt. II (new ed.) §172 Whether the Natural Phlegm of this Island needs any additional Stupifier? 1884 Lancet 5 Apr. 633/1 A habit of wakefulness may be broken by an occasional dose of the stupefier. 1991 Jrnl. Anthropol. Archaeol. 10 43 An array of nonfood resources (stone, woods, bark, resins, fibers, feathers, medicines, fish stupefiers, mineral and plant pigments, and so on). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1661 |
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