| 单词 | kill or cure |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskill or cure b. absol. or intransitive. To effect a cure; often in kill or cure (see kill v. 7e). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > type of treatment [phrase] > kill or cure kill or curea1616 the world > health and disease > healing > effect a cure [verb (intransitive)] healc1000 remedy1477 cure1787 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) v. i. 101 Whose Smile and Frowne, like to Achilles Speare Is able with the change, to kill and cure . View more context for this quotation 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 3 Your worship knows, that kill or cure, I have contracted to physic the parish-poor by the great. 1778 R. James Diss. Fevers (ed. 8) 114 Dr. James's Powder, which I was determined to take, kill or cure. 1787 W. Cowper Stanzas Yearly Bill Mortality 27 No Med'cine, though it often cure, Can always baulk the Tomb. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 33 Asclepius..adopted the rough ‘kill or cure’ method. 1908 Smart Set Sept. 82/1 Buttermilk is good for it... Warranted to cure in thirty days or money refunded. kill or cure e. kill or cure, with reference to medical treatment or remedies, which either cure or prove fatal; also attributive, and absol. as n. ΚΠ 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 3 Your worship knows, that kill or cure, I have contracted to physic the parish-poor by the great. 1778 R. James Diss. Fevers (ed. 8) 114 Dr. James's Powder, which I was determined to take, kill or cure. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 33 Asclepius..adopted the rough ‘kill or cure’ method. 1898 Folk-lore IX. 14 The Lebanon mother knows no other remedy than the kill-or-cure of a dip in the sea for her babe. < as lemmas |
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