单词 | alexipyretic |
释义 | † alexipyreticn.adj. Medicine. Obsolete. A. n. A medicine used in the treatment of fever; an antipyretic, a febrifuge. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > febrifuge or antipyretic > [noun] fever-frighter?1611 antifebrile1661 antipyretic1681 alexipyretic1682 febrifuge1686 pyretic1707 1682 J. Partridge tr. A. von Mynsicht Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum xi. 161 It is a most excellent Alexipyretick [L. Alexipyreticon] in Feavers of all kinds. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Confounding alexiterics with alexipyretics. B. adj. Used in the treatment of fever; antipyretic, febrifugal. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > febrifuge or antipyretic > [adjective] antifebrific1661 febrifugal1663 febrifugous1683 antifebrile1696 febrifuge1707 anticausotic1753 alexipyretic1847 pyretic1867 antipyretic1875 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Alexipyretic,..operating as a remedy against fever. 1879 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Alexipyretic, having power to drive off fevers; febrifuge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.1682 |
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