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单词 hiera picra
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hiera picran.

/ˈhʌɪərə ˈpɪkrə/
Etymology: medieval Latin, Greek ἱερά (feminine of ἱερός sacred), a name given to many medicines in the Greek pharmacopœia + πικρά , feminine of πικρός bitter. The form in quot. c1400 at sense a is from Old French gerapigre.
Pharmacology.
a. A purgative drug composed of aloes and canella bark, sometimes mixed with honey and other ingredients. Also corruptly hickery-pickery, hicra picra, higry-pigry, which see.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative > plant-derived
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senec1400
turpethc1400
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diagrydium1436
lignum aloes1525
rhabarbarum1533
xylaloes1540
manna1541
scilla1548
hyera?1550
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diasenna1562
colocynth1565
tragonce1575
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lignum aquilae1600
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makinboy1652
luskard1653
diagrydiate1657
physic nut1657
aloetic1661
scammoniate1665
jalap1675
aloedary1683
coloquinto1683
Briançon manna1688
liquorice powder1712
coloquintid1732
castor oil1746
senna-tea1752
higry pigry1773
Turkey rhubarb1789
argel1803
hickery-pickery1816
cathartin1823
aloin1828
croton oil1829
jalapin1832
syrmaea1833
bryonin1836
gambogic acid1837
Podophyllum1844
podophyllin1851
geropiga1852
hicra picra1857
Montpellier turpeth1860
picra1860
tallicoona oil1866
scammonin1868
pharbitisin1873
cascara sagrada1879
senna-draught1879
tambor-oil1890
syrup of figs1897
pharbitin1899
1379–80 Durham MS. Burs. Roll In di. libr. de Gira pigra, xiid.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 238 Ierapigre þat entriþ in pululas.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Hiera picra,..often vsed in Phisicke to purge Choler out of the Stomacke.
1677 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 378 6 pills of Hiera picra.
1754 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 268 He takes nervous draughts and hiera picra.
1896 Daily News 14 Dec. 6/6 Charged..with unlawfully conveying a packet of hiera picra, a powerful drug, into Holloway Gaol.
b. figurative (with allusion to the etymology).
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a1639 S. Ward Serm. (1862) 76 There is too much of this bitter zeal, of this Hierapicra in all our books of controversies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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