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单词 elixir
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elixirn.

Brit. /ᵻˈlɪksɪə/, /ᵻˈlɪksə/, U.S. /əˈlɪksər/, /iˈlɪksər/
Forms: Middle English elixir, lexer, Middle English–1600s elixar, elixer, (1500s alixer).
Etymology: < medieval Latin elixir (compare French élixir , Italian elissire , Spanish elíxir , Portuguese elexir ), < Arabic al-iksīr (= sense 1), probably < late Greek ξήριον ‘desiccative powder for wounds’.
1.
a. Alchemy. A preparation by the use of which it was sought to change metals into gold. Sometimes identified with ‘the philosopher's stone’; but perhaps of wider meaning, including powders, liquids, or vapours used for the same purpose. Also elixir-stone.
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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > chemical digestion > substances used in > elixir
elixirc1386
tinct1471
tincture1599
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 310 The philosophre stoon, Elixir clept, we sechen fast echoon.
1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy in Ashm. 188 Thow must devyde thy Elixer whyte into partyes two.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiv. ii. 355 The philosophers stone, called Alixer.
1614 S. Rowlands Fooles Bolt soone Shott 9 Fryer-Bacon..could teach Kelley the Elixar stone.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 607 What wonder then if fields and regions here Breathe forth Elixir pure, and Rivers run Potable Gold. View more context for this quotation
1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 297 A Good Man is like the Elixir, it turns Iron into Gold.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. iii. 481 [Roger Bacon sought] a transmuting elixir with unlimited powers.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. iv. 198 True Feare's th' Elixar, which, in days of old, Turn'd leaden Crosses into Crownes of Gold.
1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 130 She taught him Loves Elixar, by which Art, His Godhead into Gold he did convert.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 51 I shall bless the kindly wrench that..left all grace Ashes in death's stern alembic, loosed elixir in its place.
2.
a. A supposed drug or essence with the property of indefinitely prolonging life; imagined by the alchemists to be either identical with, or closely related to, the ‘elixir’ of sense 1. More fully, elixir of life (tr. medieval Latin elixir vitæ).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > non-remedial medicine > elixirs of life
stone1390
philosophers' stonea1393
vegetativec1450
ferment1471
egg of philosophersc1484
vegetable stonea1500
vegetant stone1576
philosophical stone1581
elixir1605
philosophers' work1612
philosophic stone1647
water stone of the wise men1649
elixir of youth1725
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > occult medicine > elixirs of life
stone1390
philosophers' stonea1393
vegetativec1450
ferment1471
egg of philosophersc1484
vegetable stonea1500
vegetant stone1576
philosophical stone1581
amphicome1601
erotylos1601
elixir1605
philosophers' work1612
philosophic stone1647
elixir of youth1725
1266 R. Bacon Opus Minus (Rolls Ser.) 314 Medicinam..quam philosophi vocant Elixir..Si libra medicinæ projiciatur super mille plumbi fiet..aurum..Et hoc est quod corpora infirma reducet ad sanitatem..et vitam..ultra contenarios annorum prolongabit.]
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xiii [Mercury, sulphur, and salt]..brought into one bodie (which the Arabians call elixir)..wil be..a medicine, etc.
1799 W. Godwin St. Leon IV. 324 The..secrets of alchemy and the elixir vitæ.
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 136 I know too where the Genii hid The jewell'd cup of their King Jamshid, With Life's elixir sparkling high.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 262 Honey..was, in her mind,..the true elixir vitæ.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xii. 299 Though the elixir of life has never been distilled.
1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. ii. i. 75 Carillo had been glad to toy with magic, and pursue the elixir of life.
b. A sovereign remedy for disease. Hence adopted as a name for quack medicines, as Daffy's elixir, etc.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > supremely effective medicine
treacle?1543
magisterium1585
magistery1594
mummy1605
elixir1632
mummia1652
1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East iv. iii. sig. I2 A little Cyath, or quantitie of my potable Elixir.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xii. li. 171 The best Elixar for souls drooping pain.
1681 Ashmole Diary 11 Apr. I took early in the morning a good dose of elixer.
1681 London Gaz. No. 1679/4 Anthony Daffy, Author of the Famous Elixir Salutis.
1713 J. Gay & A. Pope in Guardian 24 Mar. 1/2 The Grand Elixir, to support the Spirits of Human Nature.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 79 Take your glass to clear your een, 'Tis the elixir heals the spleen.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. An universal medicine..called by way of excellence, the grand elixir.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 223 A sip of Daffy's elixir..has proved a powerful means of Grace.
1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft v. 144 Before he established the reputation of his..elixir, or pill.
3.
a. A strong extract or tincture. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > [noun] > liquid or volatile principle
elixir1597
tincture1602
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. iv. 38 And bring Quintessence of Elixir pale, Out of sublimed spirits minerall.
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants ii. ii.93 The remainder, is..an Oleous Elixyr, or extract, in the form of a Milk.
1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) ii. xvii. 480 The name Elixir has been given to many Infusions, or Tinctures of spirituous bodies prepared in spirituous menstruum's.
1820 W. Scott Abbot III. i. 14 That elixir..being in truth a curious distillation of rectified acetum.
b. figurative. The quintessence or soul of a thing; its kernel or secret principle.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] > quintessence
quintessence1579
essence1582
fifth-essence1584
elixir1638
distillation1650
sublimate1657
alcohol1830
quintessential1899
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. Pref. §1 The Spirit and Elixir of all that can be said in defence of your Church and Doctrine.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. Concl. 64 A distill'd quintessence, a pure elixar of mischief, pestilent alike to all.
a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 366 The chief Elixir of its [sc. love's] Nature is founded in the Excellency of a Spirit, that Suffers for anothers sake.
1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 9 Sometimes..the rank unmitigated elixir, the family vice, is drawn off in a separate individual.
4. Pharmacology. (See quot.) elixir of vitriol: aromatic sulphuric acid. paregoric elixir: see paregoric elixir n. at paregoric n. and adj. Compounds.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > tincture > [noun] > specific tinctures
potable Mars1694
elixir1736
Huxham's tincture1788
sacred elixir1797
sacred tincture1797
alcoholature1831
mother tincture1842
Mimulus1933
1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) (at cited word) An Elixir is a compound magistery, i.e. a composition of various bodies chang'd after the same manner as a single body.
1783 F. Michaelis in Med. Communications 1 350 He ordered her..a gargle of decoction of bark, with elixir of vitriol.
1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. i. viii. 203 Elixir of calisaya bark.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Elixir, a preparation similar to a compound tincture. Also applied in a compound of many drugs with syrup and spirit.
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5. Botany elixir of love n. an orchid ( Grammatophyllum speciosum), a native of Java. Also a decoction made from the seeds of this plant.

Compounds

elixir-like adj.
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1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars vi. lxix. 149 Ô Teares! Elixar like turne all to pearle you touch.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 165 Soft dispositions which ductill be, Elixar-like, shee makes not cleane, but new.

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elixir of youth n. a preparation supposedly able to prolong youthfulness or to reverse the ageing process; (also figurative) something that gives a person vitality and vigour.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > non-remedial medicine > elixirs of life
stone1390
philosophers' stonea1393
vegetativec1450
ferment1471
egg of philosophersc1484
vegetable stonea1500
vegetant stone1576
philosophical stone1581
elixir1605
philosophers' work1612
philosophic stone1647
water stone of the wise men1649
elixir of youth1725
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > occult medicine > elixirs of life
stone1390
philosophers' stonea1393
vegetativec1450
ferment1471
egg of philosophersc1484
vegetable stonea1500
vegetant stone1576
philosophical stone1581
amphicome1601
erotylos1601
elixir1605
philosophers' work1612
philosophic stone1647
elixir of youth1725
1725 tr. T.-S. Gueullette Chinese Tales II. 164 To make a Proof of my Elixir of Youth [Fr. Elixir de Jouvence]; I swallowed some Drops of it when I went to Bed, and getting up next. Morning.., I did not seem to be, as I thought, above Five and Twenty, though I was near Fifty.
1846 Morning Post 25 June 6/2 The real elixir of youth..is happiness.
1988 Omni June 122/1 (advt.) Cure-alls, tonics and elixirs of youth—the shelves of health food stores and pharmacies are crammed with products that claim to work magic.
2013 C. Peers Battles Anc. China x. 141 Some time in the late T'ang period Chinese alchemists, paradoxically in search of the elixir of youth, had discovered the explosive properties of a primitive form of gunpowder.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

elixirv.

Etymology: < elixir n.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To distil as an elixir; to work upon as by an elixir. Also absol.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to distillation
distil1398
stilla1400
rectify?a1425
circulate1471
redistil1600
elixirate1605
to still forth1605
to still awaya1631
cohobate1651
to draw over1654
elixira1658
a1658 R. Lovelace To J. Hall in Wks. (1864) 252 Thou hast so spirited, elixir'd, we Conceive there is a noble alchymie.

Derivatives

eˈlixired adj. concentrated, refined. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > of or relating to distillation > that has undergone
distilleda1475
rectified1576
elixed1602
stillified1608
alcoholizated1651
alcoholized1651
elixireda1658
elixirated1658
a1658 R. Lovelace Toad & Spider 200 Then in his self the lymbeck turns, And his elixir'd poyson urns.
1658 P. Cleveland Upon Mr. J. Cleveland (single sheet) Rich in Elixar'd Measures, and in all That could breath Sense in Airs Emphatical.
1659 Elegies 10 in R. Lovelace Lucasta: Posthume Poems This elixir'd Medecine, For greatest grief a soveraign anodine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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