| 单词 | expulsive virtue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexpulsive virtue 1. Tending or having the power to expel. Chiefly with reference to the action of drugs and medical appliances for the expulsion of morbid influences or deleterious substances from the system. Very frequent in †expulsive faculty, expulsive virtue. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > expelling expulsivec1386 expulsatory1594 expulsitive1594 expelling1632 expulsative1659 expellent1858 c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1891 The vertu expulsif..Ne may the venym voyde, ne expelle. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy iii, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 141 Of poysons most expulsyfe. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iii. sig. Lij Other maner of byndynge is called expulsiue..to expell and put out the mater from the botome. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. Proheme f. iiiiv Chierurgions must knowe..what sygnes [of the moon]..be expulcyue. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. viii. 70 An expulsive vulnerary potion. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 30 Cold is..Expulsive of its Contrary. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xli. 153 In the Application of expulsive Compresses. 1803 J. Kenney Society, with Other Poems 29 Duties congenial to thy gentle heart Her lessons teach, expulsive of despair. 1885 Manch. Examiner 26 Oct. 5/2 The enormous expulsive force of the steam in its endeavour to escape. < as lemmas |
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