单词 | hyssop |
释义 | hyssopn. 1. a. A small bushy aromatic herb of the genus Hyssopus (N.O. Labiatæ); spec. the common cultivated species H. officinalis, a native of Southern Europe, formerly much used medicinally, esp. in decoctions. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > hyssop hyssopc1000 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific plant hyssopc1000 sionc1000 tunhoofc1000 poppyOE camomilea1300 orobusa1398 tithymala1400 tutsana1400 Thapsiac1400 melissa?a1425 hallelujahc1425 turmeric1538 succory1541 balin1546 English treacle1548 treacle mustard1548 rhabarb1558 Thlaspi1562 treacle clover1562 holy herb1567 lungwort1578 solanum1578 lightwort1587 neezing wort1591 Alexander's Foot1597 burst-wort1597 symphonia1597 wound-herb1597 leper's herb1600 all bones1633 schoenanth1633 nip1651 wound-shrub1659 hermodact1678 jusquiam1727 Algerian tea1728 Australian tea1728 strongback1739 silphium1753 belladonna1788 foxglove1801 ledum1822 yercum1826 lungs of oak1856 strong man's weed1864 conium1866 short-long1871 fever grass1875 c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 254 Genim ðas ylcan wyrte & ysopan. c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 374 Wið lungen adle, genim..ysopo. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. lxxxv. (Tollem. MS.) Ysop is a litel schorte herbe, and groweþ amonge stones, and..is hoot and drye in þe þridde gre. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 23 Take persole and sawge and ysope bryȝt. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xx. sig. K.iv Isope clenseth viscus fleume. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 19 The brothe of Hysop. 1591 E. Spenser Muiopotmos in Complaints sig. V2 Sharpe Isope, good for greene wounds remedies. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 463 There be diuers sortes of Hyssope. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 114 Bind leaves of Ground-ivy upon it. Or, bruised Hyssop. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii II. iv. iii. 239 Water with myrrh and hyssop for the finishing lavation. b. Extended with various qualifications to other plants of the Labiatæ and allied orders. anise hyssop n. Lophanthus anisatus. bastard hyssop n. Teucrium Pseudo-hyssopus. giant hyssop n. species of Lophanthus. hedge hyssop n. species of Gratiola, esp. G. officinalis. water hyssop n. Herpestis Monnieria. wild hyssop n. Verbena hastata. (Miller, Plant-names.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Verbenaceae family or plants > [noun] verbene1527 vervain1578 wild hyssop1660 fogfruit1817 velvet-bur1866 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 467 Hedge Hyssope is called in Latine Gratiola... Hedge Hissope is hot and drie of temperature. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 10 Upon the Sea-cliffs in Cornwall grow wilde Hysope, Sage,..and other fragrant Herbs. 2. a. In Biblical translations and derived use: A plant, the twigs of which were used for sprinkling in Jewish rites; hence, a bunch of this plant used in ceremonial purification, and allusively.Variously conjectured to be a species of Satureia, Marjoram (Origanum), or (with more probability) the Thorny Caper ( Capparis spinosa). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants having a sacred function > [noun] hyssopc825 verbene1533 verbena1600 tulsi1698 samolus1878 holy basil1880 c825 Vesp. Psalter l. 9 [li. 7] Ðu onstrigdes mec mid ysopan and ic biom geclasnad. c1000 Ælfric Exodus xii. 22 Dippaþ ysopan sceaft on þam blode..and sprengaþ on þæt oferslege and on ægþer gedyre. c1200 Vices & Virtues (E.E.T.S.) 83 Spræng me mid tare ysope of ðare holi rode. 1382 J. Wyclif Psalms l[i]. 7 Thou shal sprenge me, Lord, with isope, and I shal ben clensid. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme li. 23 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 50 With Hisop, lord, thie Hisop, purge me soe. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) i. 21 The caper plant, the bright green creeper which climbs out of the fissures of the rocks..has been identified..with the ‘hyssop’ or ‘ezob’ of Scripture. b. Hence, A holy-water sprinkler; an aspergillum. (So medieval Latin hyssōpus.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > aspergillum > [noun] strinklec1175 sprinklea1382 springelc1390 sprentc1400 holy-water stick1413 stick1413 holy-water sprinklec1440 holy-water strinklec1440 dashel1502 sprink1566 asperges1570 sprinkler1577 aspergilluma1657 aspergoire1772 hyssop1838 mop1838 asperge1848 aspersoir1851 aspergill1864 aspersory1881 asperser1882 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella (1846) II. xvii. 132 The mop, or hyssop, with which the Roman Catholic missionaries were wont to scatter the holy drops. c. With reference to 1 Kings iv. 33, hyssop stands as the type of a lowly plant; whence used figuratively. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > unidentified or variously identified plants > biblical, mythical, or plants of antiquity > [noun] > lowly hyssopa1382 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings iv. 33 Salamon..disputede vp on þe trees fro þe cedre þat is in lyban, vn to þe ysope þat goþ out of þe wal. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 298 The hy ceder of the lybane is conformed to the ysop in oure vale. 1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 144 That violent Publick storm which..rooted up every Plant, even from the Princely Cedars to Me, the Hyssop. 1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 155 Say botanist! within whose province fall The cedar and the hyssop on the wall. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xx Tasting how it feels to turn Cedar from hyssop-on-the-wall. 3. Applied in the western U.S. to species of Artemisia ( A. arbuscula, tridentata, trifida), also called sage-bush or sage-brush, which grow on the dry prairies. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort mugworteOE artemisiaOE mugweeda1400 motherwort1440 matricary1523 French wormwood1548 holy wormwood1548 sea-mugwort1548 sea-wormwood1548 tree wormwood1548 Roman wormwood1551 southernwood1577 garden cypress1578 mouse-wort1607 field southernwood1739 sage1805 hyssop1807 sage-bush1807 appleringie1808 absinth1841 sage-brush1850 1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 79 There is a great quantity of hysop in the vallies. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana i. iii. 29 There are other places..producing nothing but hyssop and prickly pears. 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 116 A species of Artemisia, common on the prairies, and known to the hunters by the name of Hyssop. Compounds hyssop-bunch, hyssop-sprinkler, hyssop-water, hyssop-wine; hyssop-heavy, hyssop-laden adjs. ΚΠ 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 693 Ysope leaues stripped from the stalkes, may bee kept a yeere. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 421 After the same sort is Hyssop wine made, to wit of three ounces..of Cilician Hyssope cast whole as it is into two gallons of Must, and so let them worke together. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Heb. ix. 13) A hysop~bunch. a1867 J. Hamilton Moses (1870) xvii. 272 Moses took a hyssop-sprinkler. 1881 O. Wilde Poems 229 No need have we of hyssop-laden rod. 1899 W. B. Yeats Wind among Reeds 52 The hyssop-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kidron stream. DerivativesΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hyssopic Art, a Name which Paracelsus gave to Chymistry, consider'd as that Art purifies Metals, Minerals, &c. In allusion to that Text in the Psalms, Purge me with Hyssop, and I shall be clean. 1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c825 |
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