单词 | jugulate |
释义 | jugulatev. 1. transitive. To kill by cutting the throat; to kill, slay, put to death. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by stabbing or cutting snithec725 ofstingeOE stickOE to sting to death13.. to put (do) to the sword1338 throata1382 to strike dead, to (the) deathc1390 hewc1400 stab1530 to stab (a person) in1530 poniard1593 stiletto1613 jugulate1623 kris1625 dagger1694 pike1787 to cut down1821 sword1863 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Iugulate, to slay or kill. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. G3v That were to jugulate, not to purge men. 1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. iii. vi. 421 They must have been too like the victimes which they jugulated. 1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 224 And then for Death to summon the Pope and jugulate him. 2. figurative. To ‘strangle’; spec. to stop the course of (a disease) by a powerful remedy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > arrest progress of disease stancha1398 repress?a1425 adimate1657 jugulate1876 1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 287 It..so compresses the vessels as to jugulate the inflammatory process. 1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 2 Jan. It is bad policy..to attempt to jugulate advertising. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 123 Misplaced attempts to ‘jugulate’ the disease [pneumonia]. Derivatives juguˈlation n. ΚΠ 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Iugulation, a cutting of ones throat. 1887 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Jugulation, the sudden arrest of a disease by a powerful remedy. ˈjugulator n. rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Jugulator, a cut-throat or murderer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1623 |
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