aconiten.

Brit.

/ˈakənʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈækəˌnaɪt/

Forms: 1500s aconyt, 1500s–1600s aconit, 1500s– aconite.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French aconit; Latin aconītum.

Etymology: (i) Middle French aconit, aconite plant of the genus Aconitum (c1160 in Old French as aconita ), the extract of this plant used as a poison (1213; French aconit ), or its etymon (ii) classical Latin aconītum plant of the genus Aconitum, this plant used as a poison (see aconitum n.). Compare Spanish acónito (1490), Portuguese aconito (1617), Italian aconito (1485). Compare earlier aconitum n.In winter aconite at sense 2 after post-classical Latin aconitum hiemale, aconitum hibernum (1583 in R. Dodoens Stirpum historiæ, in the passage translated in quot. 1597).

a. Any of various poisonous Eurasian plants constituting the genus Aconitum (family Ranunculaceae), having spikes of hooded flowers, formerly (and sometimes still) used as a poison or for medicinal purposes (see sense 1b); esp. the common European species A. napellus, popular in cultivation for its distinctive violet-blue flowers; also called monkshood, wolfbane.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > aconite or wolf's bane

monk's cowl1548

wolf's-bane1548

flint-wort1567

libardine1567

aconite1569

wolf's-wort1575

napellus1576

monkshood1578

napelo1580

helmet-flower1597

scorpion1601

napell1605

wolfwort1611

monk's-head1682

panther's bane1712

blue rocketa1825

bikh1830

friar's cap1830

fox-bane1840

Turk's cap1854

Adam and Eve1879

face-in-hood1886

1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 74^v An other kinde of Aconite is called Lycothonon, bicause that wolues hauing eaten of it die immediatly.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 426 Aconit is of two sortes..the one is named..Aconit that baneth, or killeth Panthers. The other..Aconit that killeth Woolfs.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 99 Onely the touch of Choak-Pard Aconite, Bereaues the Scorpion both of sence and might.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 77 Nor pois'nous Aconite is here produc'd, Or grows unknown, or is, when known, refus'd.

1722 J. Miller Botanicum Officinale 43 It [sc. Aconitum salutiferum] is accounted by some Authors a good Antidote against the poisonous Effects of the Napellus and other Aconites.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxi. 304 Aconite has the upper petal arched; and three or five capsules.

1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 91 The accidental substitution of aconite root or monkshood for horse-radish.

1937 W. de la Mare in J. Rutter Here's Flowers Introd. 18 Such a medley of names for but one of the aconites as..Turk's cap, Monk's-cowl.

1968 Times 17 Aug. 21/4 At the moment the only blues we have in the garden are..a few aconites, which are a very dark blue.

2003 Org. Gardening Sept. 14/3 A number of aconites..including..the white-flowered sub-species of our native monkshood, which is shade-tolerant.

b. = aconitum n. 1; (also figurative and poetic) deadly poison.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisons from plants

aconitum?a1450

aconite1569

cocculus indicus1591

female-bane1601

timbo1725

Suriname poison1756

ipoh1779

upas1783

tanghin1788

picrotoxin1815

nicotine1817

strychnine1819

vauqueline1819

brucia1820

brucine1820

picrotoxia1823

strychnia1823

digitalin1824

dulcamara1828

conine1829

bikh1830

nicotia1830

atropine1836

menispermia1837

nicotina1838

solanine1838

strychnina1838

tanghicin1838

urari1838

conia1842

conicine1842

amanitine1847

oenanthin1848

menispermine1849

tetanine1857

hyoscyamine1858

barbasco1860

nicotylia1862

antiarin1863

xylostein1864

oleandrin1866

zebra poison1871

andromedotoxin1883

abrin1884

ouabain1888

strophanthus1888

toxiresin1890

manchineel1891

tuba1898

taxine1907

phytotoxin1909

oenanthotoxin1911

hypoglycin1954

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful influence

venomc1315

venomc1380

enmitya1387

blast1547

arsenic1583

aconite1606

Nessus shirta1616

bane-touch1647

blighta1661

poison tree1794

upas1801

1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 75 He sayth again, that Aconyt giuen to a man in hot wine, is present poyson and killeth.

1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. C2^v Ingenious, ingenuous, fluent, facetious, T. Nash: from whose aboundant pen, hony flow'd to thy friends, and mortall Aconite to thy enemies.

1656 A. Cowley Poems I. 41 All the Worlds Mortal to 'um then, And Wine is Aconite to men.

a1735 Ld. Lansdowne To Mira (1779) 21 Despair, that aconite does prove, And certain death, to others' love.

1767 J. Burrows New Pract. Ess. Cancers 63 The terrestrial hemlock often failed where the aconite succeeded.

1863 H. Buck Infant Life (ed. 2) 85 Aconite..this remedy has been aptly named ‘The Homœopathic Lancet’.

1869 Daily News May 26 She and the deceased had eaten the root of a plant called wolf's-bane, the active poison of which is aconite.

1905 Lancet 17 Oct. 1064/1 Aconite—a poison of great repute in the East and much studied by Avicenna.

1954 F. C. Lane All about Insect World 36 The so-called drugstore beetle..has been known to eat forty-five different substances including such poisons as aconite and belladonna.

2000 J. Mann Murder, Magic, & Med. (rev. ed.) ii. 7 Aconite was also the most widely used arrow poison in medieval Europe, and was still in use on the Iberian peninsula as late as the seventeenth century.

2. Chiefly with distinguishing word, esp. in winter aconite. Any of several early-flowering, low-growing plants of the genus Eranthis (family Ranunculaeae); esp. the European species E. hyemalis, which has bright yellow flowers and is commonly grown in gardens.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers

githa1382

nigellaa1398

gollana1400

pilewort?a1425

gold-knop1538

fig-wort1548

lucken gowan1548

melanthion1559

gold crap1571

bachelor's buttons1578

celandine1578

gold cup1578

Goldilocks1578

nigel1578

nigelweed1578

troll flower1578

peppergrass1587

golden cup1589

globe crowfoot1597

globeflower1597

winter aconite1597

kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664

devil-in-a-bush1722

globe ranunculus1731

turban1760

love-in-a-mist1787

love-in-a-puzzle1824

fair-grass1825

water buttercup1831

golden knobs1835

ficary1848

New Year's gift1856

bishop wort1863

fennel-flower1863

golden ball1875

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. ccclvii. 819 It is called Aconitum hyemale, or Hibernum, or winter Aconite.

1666 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 2) 23 Winter Aconite, single Anemonies, and some double.

1726 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. 440 The Aconite, to which the epithet of Winter is usually put, because it displays its yellow Blossoms commonly the very Beginning of January.

1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 306 Yellow Aconite, double scarlet and dwarf Lichnis.

1843 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Flower-garden Ornamental Perennials I. 25 When it is wished to propagate the winter aconite, the suckers must be taken with a portion of the tuberous, underground stem.

1879 Spectator 6 Sept. 1127/1 The small yellow winter-aconite is more cheery than the lingering rosebud born too late to bloom.

1926 Times 22 Mar. 17/5 The way was prepared for the coming of spring by a leaping forth of flocks of milky snowdrops and starry aconites.

1959 Home Encycl. 91 The blossom of such perennials as winter aconite, which has yellow blossom with a green fringe of leaf cup.

2000 K.-D. Bühler Scand. Garden 181 The first flower to appear at the end of winter..is the aconite (Eranthis hyemalis), suddenly creating a carpet of yellow.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	aconite
释义	aconiten. Brit. /ˈakənʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈækəˌnaɪt/ Forms: 1500s aconyt, 1500s–1600s aconit, 1500s– aconite. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French aconit; Latin aconītum. Etymology: (i) Middle French aconit, aconite plant of the genus Aconitum (c1160 in Old French as aconita ), the extract of this plant used as a poison (1213; French aconit ), or its etymon (ii) classical Latin aconītum plant of the genus Aconitum, this plant used as a poison (see aconitum n.). Compare Spanish acónito (1490), Portuguese aconito (1617), Italian aconito (1485). Compare earlier aconitum n.In winter aconite at sense 2 after post-classical Latin aconitum hiemale, aconitum hibernum (1583 in R. Dodoens Stirpum historiæ, in the passage translated in quot. 1597). 1. a. Any of various poisonous Eurasian plants constituting the genus Aconitum (family Ranunculaceae), having spikes of hooded flowers, formerly (and sometimes still) used as a poison or for medicinal purposes (see sense 1b); esp. the common European species A. napellus, popular in cultivation for its distinctive violet-blue flowers; also called monkshood, wolfbane. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > aconite or wolf's bane monk's cowl1548 wolf's-bane1548 flint-wort1567 libardine1567 aconite1569 wolf's-wort1575 napellus1576 monkshood1578 napelo1580 helmet-flower1597 scorpion1601 napell1605 wolfwort1611 monk's-head1682 panther's bane1712 blue rocketa1825 bikh1830 friar's cap1830 fox-bane1840 Turk's cap1854 Adam and Eve1879 face-in-hood1886 1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 74^v An other kinde of Aconite is called Lycothonon, bicause that wolues hauing eaten of it die immediatly. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 426 Aconit is of two sortes..the one is named..Aconit that baneth, or killeth Panthers. The other..Aconit that killeth Woolfs. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 99 Onely the touch of Choak-Pard Aconite, Bereaues the Scorpion both of sence and might. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 77 Nor pois'nous Aconite is here produc'd, Or grows unknown, or is, when known, refus'd. View more context for this quotation 1722 J. Miller Botanicum Officinale 43 It [sc. Aconitum salutiferum] is accounted by some Authors a good Antidote against the poisonous Effects of the Napellus and other Aconites. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxi. 304 Aconite has the upper petal arched; and three or five capsules. 1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 91 The accidental substitution of aconite root or monkshood for horse-radish. 1937 W. de la Mare in J. Rutter Here's Flowers Introd. 18 Such a medley of names for but one of the aconites as..Turk's cap, Monk's-cowl. 1968 Times 17 Aug. 21/4 At the moment the only blues we have in the garden are..a few aconites, which are a very dark blue. 2003 Org. Gardening Sept. 14/3 A number of aconites..including..the white-flowered sub-species of our native monkshood, which is shade-tolerant. b. = aconitum n. 1; (also figurative and poetic) deadly poison. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisons from plants aconitum?a1450 aconite1569 cocculus indicus1591 female-bane1601 timbo1725 Suriname poison1756 ipoh1779 upas1783 tanghin1788 picrotoxin1815 nicotine1817 strychnine1819 vauqueline1819 brucia1820 brucine1820 picrotoxia1823 strychnia1823 digitalin1824 dulcamara1828 conine1829 bikh1830 nicotia1830 atropine1836 menispermia1837 nicotina1838 solanine1838 strychnina1838 tanghicin1838 urari1838 conia1842 conicine1842 amanitine1847 oenanthin1848 menispermine1849 tetanine1857 hyoscyamine1858 barbasco1860 nicotylia1862 antiarin1863 xylostein1864 oleandrin1866 zebra poison1871 andromedotoxin1883 abrin1884 ouabain1888 strophanthus1888 toxiresin1890 manchineel1891 tuba1898 taxine1907 phytotoxin1909 oenanthotoxin1911 hypoglycin1954 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful influence venomc1315 venomc1380 enmitya1387 blast1547 arsenic1583 aconite1606 Nessus shirta1616 bane-touch1647 blighta1661 poison tree1794 upas1801 1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 75 He sayth again, that Aconyt giuen to a man in hot wine, is present poyson and killeth. 1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. C2^v Ingenious, ingenuous, fluent, facetious, T. Nash: from whose aboundant pen, hony flow'd to thy friends, and mortall Aconite to thy enemies. 1656 A. Cowley Poems I. 41 All the Worlds Mortal to 'um then, And Wine is Aconite to men. a1735 Ld. Lansdowne To Mira (1779) 21 Despair, that aconite does prove, And certain death, to others' love. 1767 J. Burrows New Pract. Ess. Cancers 63 The terrestrial hemlock often failed where the aconite succeeded. 1863 H. Buck Infant Life (ed. 2) 85 Aconite..this remedy has been aptly named ‘The Homœopathic Lancet’. 1869 Daily News May 26 She and the deceased had eaten the root of a plant called wolf's-bane, the active poison of which is aconite. 1905 Lancet 17 Oct. 1064/1 Aconite—a poison of great repute in the East and much studied by Avicenna. 1954 F. C. Lane All about Insect World 36 The so-called drugstore beetle..has been known to eat forty-five different substances including such poisons as aconite and belladonna. 2000 J. Mann Murder, Magic, & Med. (rev. ed.) ii. 7 Aconite was also the most widely used arrow poison in medieval Europe, and was still in use on the Iberian peninsula as late as the seventeenth century. 2. Chiefly with distinguishing word, esp. in winter aconite. Any of several early-flowering, low-growing plants of the genus Eranthis (family Ranunculaeae); esp. the European species E. hyemalis, which has bright yellow flowers and is commonly grown in gardens. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers githa1382 nigellaa1398 gollana1400 pilewort?a1425 gold-knop1538 fig-wort1548 lucken gowan1548 melanthion1559 gold crap1571 bachelor's buttons1578 celandine1578 gold cup1578 Goldilocks1578 nigel1578 nigelweed1578 troll flower1578 peppergrass1587 golden cup1589 globe crowfoot1597 globeflower1597 winter aconite1597 kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664 devil-in-a-bush1722 globe ranunculus1731 turban1760 love-in-a-mist1787 love-in-a-puzzle1824 fair-grass1825 water buttercup1831 golden knobs1835 ficary1848 New Year's gift1856 bishop wort1863 fennel-flower1863 golden ball1875 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. ccclvii. 819 It is called Aconitum hyemale, or Hibernum, or winter Aconite. 1666 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 2) 23 Winter Aconite, single Anemonies, and some double. 1726 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. 440 The Aconite, to which the epithet of Winter is usually put, because it displays its yellow Blossoms commonly the very Beginning of January. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 306 Yellow Aconite, double scarlet and dwarf Lichnis. 1843 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Flower-garden Ornamental Perennials I. 25 When it is wished to propagate the winter aconite, the suckers must be taken with a portion of the tuberous, underground stem. 1879 Spectator 6 Sept. 1127/1 The small yellow winter-aconite is more cheery than the lingering rosebud born too late to bloom. 1926 Times 22 Mar. 17/5 The way was prepared for the coming of spring by a leaping forth of flocks of milky snowdrops and starry aconites. 1959 Home Encycl. 91 The blossom of such perennials as winter aconite, which has yellow blossom with a green fringe of leaf cup. 2000 K.-D. Bühler Scand. Garden 181 The first flower to appear at the end of winter..is the aconite (Eranthis hyemalis), suddenly creating a carpet of yellow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1569
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