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单词 cornelius' tub
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(Mother) Cornelius' tub
b. A sweating-tub formerly used in the treatment of venereal disease; hence, the use of this; see quots. and cf. tub-fast n. at Compounds 2; also called (Mother) Cornelius' tub, and allusively powdering-tub. Obsolete.
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1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. Dv Mother Cornelius tub why it was lyke hell, he that came into it, neuer came out of it.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 73 To the powdering tub of infamy, Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cresides kinde, Doll Tear-sheete.
1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. E4v Where they should study in priuate with Diogenes in his Cell, they are with Cornelius in his tub.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 324 Luc. How doth..thy Mistris? Procures she still? Ha? Clo. Troth sir, shee hath eaten vp all her beefe, and she is her selfe in the tub . View more context for this quotation
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. viii. ii. 13 Tub and Chair were the old way of sweating, but [etc.].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 421/2 He beareth Argent, a Doctors Tub, (otherwise called a Cleansing Tub), Sable; Hooped, Or.
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