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单词 counter-poison
释义

counter-poisonn.

Forms: Also 1500s conter-, contre-; also counterpoison.
Etymology: < French contrepoison (H. Estienne 1539); compare Italian contraveleno, medieval Latin contravenēnum, and see counter- prefix 2i(a), 2hPrevious versions of the OED give the stress as: counterˈpoison.
archaic.
1.
a. A medicine that counteracts the influence of a poison; an antidote.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun]
atterlothec1000
treacle1340
theriaclec1400
theriacc1440
mithridate1528
antidote1543
counter-poison1548
pazar1563
antidotary1583
alexipharmac1585
alexipharmacum1590
bezoar1597
alexitery1604
corrector1605
counterbane1605
alexipharmacal1608
correctory1608
corrective1612
alexipharmic1628
alexiteric1655
deletery1657
obsistent1657
vincetoxic1658
bezoardic1671
alexiterial1673
alexiterian1681
therial1912
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxxvii. 266 They mengle the floures..in conterpoysons & medicines that are made to expell poyson.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 210 They are mixed in counterpoisons, as treacle, mithridate, and such like compositions.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 14 A soveraigne counterpoison and remedie against all venim.
1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. iii. i. 100 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) He sent me..a Case of Medicaments and Counter-poysons.
figurative.1548 Veron (title) An Holsom Antidotus or counter~poysen agaynst the pestilent heresye and sect of Anabaptistes.a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 449 Unlesse by the counterpoyson of the word of God hee vomit it out againe.1656 A. Cowley To Dr. Scarborough in Pindaric Odes A Med'cine and a Counter-poyson to the Age.
b. attributive.
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1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xxvi. 216 Aconitum salutiferum..in English..eyther wholsome Helmet flower, or counterpoison Monkes hood.
1636 R. James Iter Lancastrense (1845) 328 Ye rich prizd hornes Of counter-poyson sea-fish unicornes.
2. An opposite poison.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > an opposite poison
counter-poison1769
1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 523 The vulgar notion that every poison is cured by some counter poison, as a specific, has done much hurt.
1832 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 102 The men whose heart..revolted against intolerance..were themselves infected with the counterpoison of French philosophy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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