单词 | etheromania |
释义 | etheromanian. Now historical. Addiction to the use of ether (by ingestion, inhalation, or injection) as an inebriant. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > to or for specific drug opiomania1868 morphiomania1876 etheromania1883 etherism1887 morphinomania1887 heroin addiction1903 1883 Canad. Practitioner Nov. 332/1 Etheromania.—M. Sedan relates in Gaz. des Hôp., the case of a young boy, ten years of age, quick and brilliant intellectually. 1889 N. Kerr Inebriety (ed. 2) vii. 122 Etheromania has been a contributory cause of insanity in cases treated at asylums in the North of Ireland. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 13 Feb. 14/3 Etheromania is largely on the increase in South-west Russia. 1921 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 14 Oct. 24/1 So many are victims of ether that physicians have listed ‘etheromania’ as an ailment. The habit is extending through all classes. 1995 Mod. Lang. Stud. 25 96 Like the writer who was weakened by etheromania and consumption, the monkey has a chronic cough caused by his smoking of cigars. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1883 |
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