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单词 emollient
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emollientadj.n.

/ɪˈmɒlɪənt/
Forms: Also 1600s emolent, 1700s–1800s emolient.
Etymology: < Latin ēmollient-em, present participle of ēmollīre to soften < ex thoroughly + mollīre < mollis soft (compare melt v.1).
Medicine.
A. adj.
That has the power of softening or relaxing the living animal textures. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > softening
mollificativea1400
mollitive?a1425
remollitive?a1425
malactic?1541
suppling1548
remollient1597
emolliative1601
emollitive1601
lenifying1617
emollient1643
supplying1651
malactical1657
mollient1721
1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. vii. 29 I use emolent Medicines.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick x. iii. 289 A Decoction of Emollient Herbs.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 60 All the emollient cataplasms of robbery and confiscation.
1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 161 Mixtures of emollient remedies.
1876 S. W. Gross Gross's Pract. Treat. Dis. Bladder (ed. 3) i. i. 26 A large emollient poultice is applied to the vesicated surface.
B. n.
A softening application. Chiefly in plural. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > softening medicine
mollificativea1400
mollifying?a1425
mollitive?a1425
remollitive?a1425
mollification1562
emollitive1601
mollient1612
remollient1612
malactic1634
emollient1656
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 13 Lay not on the scarified place emollients.
1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xix. 423 This Pacifick purpose, as a lenitive and Emollient.
1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 42 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. The Emollients and Opiats of Poesy.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 582 True emollients are perfectly bland, fatty substances.
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