| 释义 |
hippiatric, a. and n. rare.|hɪpɪˈætrɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἱππιᾱτρικός, f. ἱππιᾱτρός veterinary surgeon, f. ἵππος horse + ἰᾱτρός healer, physician.]
A. adj. Relating to the treatment of diseases of horses.
B. n.
a. One who treats diseases of horses.
b. pl. The treatment of diseases of horses, farriery; a treatise on this.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. ii. 108 Absyrtus a Greek Author..who in his Hippiat[r]icks, obscurely assigneth the gall a place in the liver. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 63 The Weights among the Greeks are differently to be taken; as they are Attick, Physical, Hippiatrick, Indigenital, or Exotick. Ibid. 94 The Hippiatricks had a..Litra of 12 [Ounces]. 1829Sporting Mag. XXIV. 154 This great master of hippiatrics..gives the preference to horses that turn out their toes.
So hippiˈatrical a. = hippiatric A; hiˈppiatrist, one who practises, or writes on, hippiatry; hiˈppiatry |-ˈeɪtrɪ| = hippiatrics (see B. b above).
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxxvi, (Which is a wonderful thing in Hippiatrie), the said horse was thoroughly cured of a ringbone which he had in that foot. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 93 Graecian Hippiatrical Measures. 189519th Cent. Mar. 444 Greek and Roman hippiatrists are equally divided on this point. |