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styptic, a. and n.|ˈstɪptɪk|
Forms: 5 stiptik, -tyk, 5–6 styptyke, 6–7 -tike, 5–7 stiptike, 6 -tyke, 5–8 stiptick(e, styptique, (7 stiptict, stiticke), 7 stypticke, 7–8 styptick, stiptic, 7– styptic.
[ad. late L. stypticus, a. Gr. στυπτικός, f. στύϕ-ειν to contract, have an astringent effect upon. Cf. F. styptique.]
A. adj.
1. a. Having the power of contracting organic tissue; having an austere or acid taste; harsh or raw to the palate; having a binding effect on the stomach or bowels.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 98 Diete him with colde metis & stiptik. c1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 81 Al stiptik þingz bene repressiue of humours. c1440Pallad. on Husb. xi. 281 The stiptyk whyte [wine] a stomak that is laxe Wole helpe. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 74 And so is Sowerish tast called Sapor Pontick, And lesse Sower allso called Sapor Stiptick. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe ii. vii. (1541) 18 b, Meates stiptike or rough on the tonge, byndeth and comforteth appetite. 1578Lyte Dodoens vi. lxviii. 745 The gal [of the oak] is also very binding and stiptique. 1610B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v, What's that? A Lullianist? a Ripley?.. Know you the sapor pontick? sapor stiptick? 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 188 Take..some stypticke thing after meale..that may inhibit the ascending of vapors, by closing vp the mouth of the stomack. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xii. 338 There is a sowre, stipticke salt diffused through the earth, which passing a concoction in plants, becommeth milder and more agreeable unto the sense. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. (1735) 250 Austere, astringent, vegetable Substances..; as Several sorts of Plumbs,..distinguishable by their rough styptick Taste... Pomegranates, which contain a Juice styptick, and extremely cooling. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 30 Dogberry tree... The berries of this tree have a styptic quality, and are bitter to the taste. 1871Garrod Mat. Med. (ed. 3) 88 An orange-brown solution, with a strong styptic taste.
b. Of a medicament, etc.: That arrests hæmorrhage. styptic pencil, a stick of styptic substance used to stem the bleeding of small cuts.
c1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 27 Puluer of alum, zucarin combust, ‘bole armenic’, [etc.]..ar..of þe same vertu in regeneracion of flesch an cicatrizacione and þat þai bene al stiptik. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. iii. xi. 100 b/2 Ye shal minister this..which is stiptike, & consoundeth or ioyneth together, y⊇ woundes in the guttes. 1658A. Fox tr. Wurtz' Surg. ii. xiii. 97 These Wounds..ought to be healed with stiptick Plaisters. 1673Phil. Trans. VIII. 6115 The Royal Styptique liquor was used in the last engagement against the Dutch by the Chirurgions. 1717Pope Iliad xi. 983 A bitter root he bruised; The wound he wash'd, the styptic juice infused. 1745R. James Med. Dict. III. s.v. Styptica, I found that many little Trials were made there, also, with a Styptic Ball, mixed with French Brandy. 1872T. G. Thomas Dis. Women 107 Both these cases readily yielded to the recumbent posture, and the application of cold and styptic compresses. 1880W. MacCormac Antisept. Surg. 167 Pure spirit is a good application; it is slightly styptic and quite antiseptic. 1908Sears, Roebuck Catal. 799/2 Styptic Pencils. Used when shaving. Will instantly stop bleeding. 1936G. Greene Gun for Sale vii. 211 Plying his styptic pencil, sticking the cotton-wool on the longer wounds. 1961I. Fleming Thunderball i. 9 Bond dabbed with the blood⁓stained styptic pencil at the cut on his chin. 1978Observer 26 Mar. 29/7 He had dropped his styptic pencil down the washbasin.
c. fig.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 98 Find the sawce sowre and stiptick enough in Hell. 1637Heywood Dial. ii. Wks. 1874 VI. 118 By her the Boy would be so much insenc'd, To aime a shaft in Stiptick poison dipt. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. 56 Not medling with that restraining and styptick surgery which the law uses,..against the eruptions and outermost effects thereof [malice]. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche iii. xcviii, That stiptic Word full in the Priest's face flew, And fastned mystic chains upon his Tongue.
d. In plant-names.
1847Darlington Amer. Weeds 110 Cassia occidentalis... Styptic Weed. 1864Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Ind. 788/1 Styptic- or velvet-bur, Priva echinata.
†2. Of a person, etc., the bowels: Costive. Obs.
1582J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. iii. lv. 77 This Diatartaro is good..for those that are stiptike of bodie. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 381 A belly neither continually loose nor stiptike.
B. n.
1. a. A substance having the power of contracting organic tissue.
a1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 226 Þou schalt avoide þe matere, & þou schalt comforte þe place [the mouth of the stomach] with stiptikis. 1638tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1650) 37 This inconvenience is remedied..by shutting the mouth of the Stomach strongly, with Stiptickes. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock ii. 132 Gums and Pomatums shall his flight restrain,..Or Alum styptics with contracting pow'r Shrink his thin essence like a rivel'd flow'r. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 13 That austere, rough styptic, called alum.
b. as a remedy for hæmorrhage.
c1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 74 Afterward [after phlebotomy] be þer done suffumigacion or fomentacion of gall, or of..wormode, horsmynt, and sich oþer stiptikez. 1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. v. ix. 399 There was an effusion of bloud..: but having Dossils ready dipt in the Royal Stiptick, we applied them. 1755Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) III. 322 Her nose..has already bled 15 or 16 ounces: it is at present stopped by Eaton's Stiptic. 1825Scott Talism. xiv, The physician..withdrew from the wounded shoulder the fragment of the weapon, and stopped with styptics and bandages the effusion of blood which followed. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIII. 180/2 Those astringents are alone entitled to be called styptics which can be applied directly to the bleeding orifice; and of these some act chemically, others vitally, and others merely mechanically. 1884T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. 481 Astringents or styptics are valuable agents in the arrest of bleeding... ‘Cold’ is a powerful styptic.
c. fig.
1785G. A. Bellamy Apology (ed. 3) VI. 119 Hope, celestial Comforter! that only Styptic for a bleeding heart. 1855Thackeray Newcomes II. xii. 120 Again the flow of words is checked by the styptic [sc. a kiss] previously applied. 1858Mrs. Oliphant Laird of Norlaw III. 92 Vulgar, needful business, the very elements of daily necessity—these are the best styptics for thrusts in the heart. 1879Dowden Southey ii. 28 He had been squandering his emotions; he had been indulging in a luxury and waste of passion. Here was a tonic and a styptic.
†2. A mordant. Obs. rare.
1685W. Cole in Phil. Trans. XV. 1281 The last and most beautifull colour..will..be..of a fair bright Crimson..; which afterwards (notwithstanding there is no use of any Stiptic to bind the colour) will continue the same. |