upasn.

Brit.

/ˈjuːpəs/, U.S.

/ˈjupəs/

Forms: Also 1800s oopas.

Etymology: < Malay ūpas poison, in the combination pōhun (or pūhun) ūpas poison-tree. In senses 1, 2 correct usage would require the compound upas-tree. The full Malay name has been used by some writers in the inexact forms bohon, bohun, bopon, bon, and boa upas.

a. A fabulous tree alleged to have existed in Java, at some distance from Batavia, with properties so poisonous as to destroy all animal and vegetable life to a distance of fifteen or sixteen miles around it.The account given in the London Magazine of 1783, from which Erasmus Darwin adopted and gave currency to the fiction, professed to be translated from one written in Dutch by Mr. Foersch (who was a surgeon at Samarang in 1773), but was apparently the invention of George Steevens. The history of the fable is fully traced in Yule and Burnell's Hobson-Jobson, at Upas.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > fabulous poisonous tree

upas1783

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > fabulous poisonous plant

upas1783

α.

1783 London Mag. 513/1 They are asked.., whether they will go to the Upas tree for a box of poison?

1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours 58 His life was like the Upas-tree, The curse of all his kind!

1841 W. M. Thackeray Misc. Ess. (1885) 401 Avoid tobacco as you would the upas plant.

β. 1783 London Mag. 516/2 I have been convinced, that the gum of the Upas is the..most violent of all vegetable poisons.1789 E. Darwin Loves of Plants in Bot. Garden II. iii. 238 Fierce in dread silence on the blasted heath Fell Upas sits, the Hydra-Tree of death.1815 H. M. Williams Narr. Events France iv. 68 Held in as much abhorrence as if they had shed the poisons of the Upas.1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia ii. 89 The Upas of the desert, and the nightshade of the jungles.

b. figurative. A baleful, destructive, or deadly power or influence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful influence

venomc1315

venomc1380

enmitya1387

blast1547

arsenic1583

aconite1606

Nessus shirta1616

bane-touch1647

blighta1661

poison tree1794

upas1801

α.

1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 200 From that accursed venom springs The Upas Tree of Death.

1824 Westm. Rev. Apr. 464 That Upas tree, which has since borne all the bitter fruits of Turkish oppression.

1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 90 This tremendous soil, where one grain of knowledge may spring up a gigantic upas-tree.

1885 ‘E. Garrett’ At Any Cost iv. 64 This failure..lies about the very root of many upas-trees of human life.

β. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxxvi. 66 This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree.1865 F. Parkman Huguenots viii, in Pioneers of France in New World 138 Thus did Spain..crush the upas of heresy in its germ.1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xxxvi. 359 This is the sole resemblance between the tree of life and the upas of evil.

2. Botany. The Javanese tree Antiaris toxicaria, yielding a poisonous juice. (Cf. antiar n.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun]

buck's-horna1450

rhus?1541

sumac1548

Venice sumac1597

poisonwood1671

poison tree1676

swamp sumac1722

urushi1727

stag-horn1753

Venetian sumac1755

poison ash1757

ipoh1779

poison sumac1785

ailanthus tree1789

Japan varnish1789

vinegar-plant1797

mountain sumac1813

poison dogwood1814

upas1814

karee1815

fustet1821

taaibos1821

poison elder1822

varnish sumac1822

Japan lacquer1835

tree of heaven1845

anacard1847

smoke plant1856

tanners' sumac1858

swamp dogwood1859

smoke-tree1860

wax-tree1866

wig-sumac1867

wig-tree1867

burnwood1874

vinegar-tree1874

mountain manchineel1884

valley of death tree1888

sugar-bush1900

smoke bush1902

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding poison > upas tree or bean

bean of St. Ignatiusa1398

Ignatius' Bean1751

ipoh1779

upas1814

1814 T. Horsfield in Ann. Philos. (1817) 9 202 An Essay on the Oopas, or Poison Tree of Java.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 98/2 There is such a tree as the upas, and its juice, if mixed with the blood.., is speedily fatal.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 420/2 The Upas tree of Java.

1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 234 The celebrated Upas..is a native of Java. The juice..was formerly used by the natives to poison their arrows.

3. The poison obtained from the upas-tree.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisons from plants

aconitum?a1450

aconite1569

cocculus indicus1591

female-bane1601

timbo1725

Suriname poison1756

ipoh1779

upas1783

tanghin1788

picrotoxin1815

nicotine1817

strychnine1819

vauqueline1819

brucia1820

brucine1820

picrotoxia1823

strychnia1823

digitalin1824

dulcamara1828

conine1829

bikh1830

nicotia1830

atropine1836

menispermia1837

nicotina1838

solanine1838

strychnina1838

tanghicin1838

urari1838

conia1842

conicine1842

amanitine1847

oenanthin1848

menispermine1849

tetanine1857

hyoscyamine1858

barbasco1860

nicotylia1862

antiarin1863

xylostein1864

oleandrin1866

zebra poison1871

andromedotoxin1883

abrin1884

ouabain1888

strophanthus1888

toxiresin1890

manchineel1891

tuba1898

taxine1907

phytotoxin1909

oenanthotoxin1911

hypoglycin1954

1783 London Mag. 515/2 To suffer death by a lancet poisoned with Upas.

1783 London Mag. 516/1 I..procured..some grains of Upas.

1814 T. Horsfield in Ann. Philos. (1817) 9 207 One of the experiments..was made with the oopas prepared by myself.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 95 An order [of plants] which contains the most deadly poison in the world, the Upas of Java.

1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (at cited word)

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1a).

ΚΠ

1838 J. Ruskin Scythian Banquet Song iv Nor deemed [I] my love, like Upas dew, A plague.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. xi. 724 Such is its upas-like atmosphere.

1847 R. W. Emerson Mithridates 19 Swing me in the upas boughs, Vampyre-fanned, when I carouse.

C2. attributive (in sense 1b).

ΚΠ

1832 R. Cattermole Beckett 169 Even Despotism's dark upas-root For us a blessing bore.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. Pref. p. xi Was not the Empire trying to extend over the Church itself that upas shadow with which it had withered up every other form of human existence?

C3. attributive (in sense 2).

ΚΠ

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 287 Strychnia..is one of the active constituents of the upas poison.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	upas
释义	upasn. Brit. /ˈjuːpəs/, U.S. /ˈjupəs/ Forms: Also 1800s oopas. Etymology: < Malay ūpas poison, in the combination pōhun (or pūhun) ūpas poison-tree. In senses 1, 2 correct usage would require the compound upas-tree. The full Malay name has been used by some writers in the inexact forms bohon, bohun, bopon, bon, and boa upas. 1. a. A fabulous tree alleged to have existed in Java, at some distance from Batavia, with properties so poisonous as to destroy all animal and vegetable life to a distance of fifteen or sixteen miles around it.The account given in the London Magazine of 1783, from which Erasmus Darwin adopted and gave currency to the fiction, professed to be translated from one written in Dutch by Mr. Foersch (who was a surgeon at Samarang in 1773), but was apparently the invention of George Steevens. The history of the fable is fully traced in Yule and Burnell's Hobson-Jobson, at Upas. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > fabulous poisonous tree upas1783 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > fabulous poisonous plant upas1783 α. 1783 London Mag. 513/1 They are asked.., whether they will go to the Upas tree for a box of poison? 1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours 58 His life was like the Upas-tree, The curse of all his kind! 1841 W. M. Thackeray Misc. Ess. (1885) 401 Avoid tobacco as you would the upas plant. β. 1783 London Mag. 516/2 I have been convinced, that the gum of the Upas is the..most violent of all vegetable poisons.1789 E. Darwin Loves of Plants in Bot. Garden II. iii. 238 Fierce in dread silence on the blasted heath Fell Upas sits, the Hydra-Tree of death.1815 H. M. Williams Narr. Events France iv. 68 Held in as much abhorrence as if they had shed the poisons of the Upas.1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia ii. 89 The Upas of the desert, and the nightshade of the jungles. b. figurative. A baleful, destructive, or deadly power or influence. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful influence venomc1315 venomc1380 enmitya1387 blast1547 arsenic1583 aconite1606 Nessus shirta1616 bane-touch1647 blighta1661 poison tree1794 upas1801 α. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 200 From that accursed venom springs The Upas Tree of Death. 1824 Westm. Rev. Apr. 464 That Upas tree, which has since borne all the bitter fruits of Turkish oppression. 1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 90 This tremendous soil, where one grain of knowledge may spring up a gigantic upas-tree. 1885 ‘E. Garrett’ At Any Cost iv. 64 This failure..lies about the very root of many upas-trees of human life. β. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxxvi. 66 This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree.1865 F. Parkman Huguenots viii, in Pioneers of France in New World 138 Thus did Spain..crush the upas of heresy in its germ.1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xxxvi. 359 This is the sole resemblance between the tree of life and the upas of evil. 2. Botany. The Javanese tree Antiaris toxicaria, yielding a poisonous juice. (Cf. antiar n.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun] buck's-horna1450 rhus?1541 sumac1548 Venice sumac1597 poisonwood1671 poison tree1676 swamp sumac1722 urushi1727 stag-horn1753 Venetian sumac1755 poison ash1757 ipoh1779 poison sumac1785 ailanthus tree1789 Japan varnish1789 vinegar-plant1797 mountain sumac1813 poison dogwood1814 upas1814 karee1815 fustet1821 taaibos1821 poison elder1822 varnish sumac1822 Japan lacquer1835 tree of heaven1845 anacard1847 smoke plant1856 tanners' sumac1858 swamp dogwood1859 smoke-tree1860 wax-tree1866 wig-sumac1867 wig-tree1867 burnwood1874 vinegar-tree1874 mountain manchineel1884 valley of death tree1888 sugar-bush1900 smoke bush1902 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding poison > upas tree or bean bean of St. Ignatiusa1398 Ignatius' Bean1751 ipoh1779 upas1814 1814 T. Horsfield in Ann. Philos. (1817) 9 202 An Essay on the Oopas, or Poison Tree of Java. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 98/2 There is such a tree as the upas, and its juice, if mixed with the blood.., is speedily fatal. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 420/2 The Upas tree of Java. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 234 The celebrated Upas..is a native of Java. The juice..was formerly used by the natives to poison their arrows. 3. The poison obtained from the upas-tree. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisons from plants aconitum?a1450 aconite1569 cocculus indicus1591 female-bane1601 timbo1725 Suriname poison1756 ipoh1779 upas1783 tanghin1788 picrotoxin1815 nicotine1817 strychnine1819 vauqueline1819 brucia1820 brucine1820 picrotoxia1823 strychnia1823 digitalin1824 dulcamara1828 conine1829 bikh1830 nicotia1830 atropine1836 menispermia1837 nicotina1838 solanine1838 strychnina1838 tanghicin1838 urari1838 conia1842 conicine1842 amanitine1847 oenanthin1848 menispermine1849 tetanine1857 hyoscyamine1858 barbasco1860 nicotylia1862 antiarin1863 xylostein1864 oleandrin1866 zebra poison1871 andromedotoxin1883 abrin1884 ouabain1888 strophanthus1888 toxiresin1890 manchineel1891 tuba1898 taxine1907 phytotoxin1909 oenanthotoxin1911 hypoglycin1954 1783 London Mag. 515/2 To suffer death by a lancet poisoned with Upas. 1783 London Mag. 516/1 I..procured..some grains of Upas. 1814 T. Horsfield in Ann. Philos. (1817) 9 207 One of the experiments..was made with the oopas prepared by myself. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 95 An order [of plants] which contains the most deadly poison in the world, the Upas of Java. 1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (at cited word) Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1a). ΚΠ 1838 J. Ruskin Scythian Banquet Song iv Nor deemed [I] my love, like Upas dew, A plague. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. xi. 724 Such is its upas-like atmosphere. 1847 R. W. Emerson Mithridates 19 Swing me in the upas boughs, Vampyre-fanned, when I carouse. C2. attributive (in sense 1b). ΚΠ 1832 R. Cattermole Beckett 169 Even Despotism's dark upas-root For us a blessing bore. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. Pref. p. xi Was not the Empire trying to extend over the Church itself that upas shadow with which it had withered up every other form of human existence? C3. attributive (in sense 2). ΚΠ 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 287 Strychnia..is one of the active constituents of the upas poison. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1783
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