| 释义 |
peyote|peɪˈjəʊteɪ|
Also payote, pellote, pelotte, peyoti, peyotl, etc.
[Amer. Sp. peyote, a. Nahuatl peyotl.]
1. = mescal 3 a.
[1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 509 Whiskey-root, a plant of the Cactus species possessing intoxicating properties, which is thus described by a correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune: ‘It is what the Indians call Pie-o-ke.’] 1885Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum VIII. 521 It is principally as an intoxicant that the Peyote has become noted, being often added to ‘tizwin’ or other mild fermented native drink to render it more inebriating. 1898J. Mooney in 17th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1895–96 i. 238 The worship of the peyote..is comparatively modern with the Kiowa. 1911, etc. [see mescal 3 a]. 1927Daily News 28 Sept. 8/7 M. R. Desille..said that a herb..known as peyotl ‘produced remarkable hallucinations of undoubted psychic value’. 1955Sci. News Let. 2 July 4/1 Mescaline is extracted from the Mexican plant better known as peyote. 1969D. Weniger Cacti of Southwest 95/2 The insignificant members of this genus [sc. Lophophora]..are the sacred plants of the Indians best known by the ancient Indian name, peyotl, which has become the peyote of modern usage. 1977Lewis & Elvin-Lewis Med. Bot. xviii. 405/2 Peyote is usually eaten as mescal buttons, the dried, brown pieces of the above-ground part of the cactus. Occasionally fresh green pieces are used. Ibid. 407/1 Peyote is also brewed and the tea drunk.
2. = mescal 3 b.
1849J. W. Audubon Western Jrnl. (1906) 186 Out of these acorns the Indians make their ‘payote’, a kind of paste. 1913[see mescal button]. 1915Jrnl. Heredity VI. 295/2 The majority from the peyote and the wine were unable to utilize their legs. 1916Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 15 Jan. 194/2 Among the menaces..to which some of the American Indians are said to be exposed..is the use of a natural product variously known as mescal buttons, peyote or pellote. 1953[see high n. 1 h]. 1975High Times Dec. 49/3 Many natural hallucinogens—peyote is a good example—are supposed to trigger nausea by their direct pharmacological actions.
3. attrib. and Comb., as peyote cactus, peyote high; peyote button = mescal button; peyote cult = peyotism.
1921M. R. Harrington Relig. & Ceremonies of Lenape viii. 185 (caption) Peyote ‘Button’. Diameter 1·9 in. 1966G. Baxt Queer Kind of Death (1967) xiv. 204 The stupid bastard must have cut himself a peyoti button. 1975‘S. Marlowe’ Cawthorn Journals (1976) ii. xi. 88 Have you ever eaten peyote buttons?
1953A. Huxley Let. 21 June (1969) 678 The most extraordinary fact about mescaline—the active principle in the peyotl cactus used by the North American Indians..—is that it is almost completely non-toxic. 1974M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xvii. 327 Among the plants the Spanish conquistadors observed to be worshipped by the Mexican natives was the peyote cactus.
1920Univ. Calif. Publ. Amer. Archaeol. & Ethnol. XVI. 437 It was quite customary to eat peyote during the day in the early days of the peyote cult. 1970Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Dec. 1480/5 Now coca..became the basis of a kind of peyote cult.
1953Peyote high [see high n. 1 h]. |