单词 | medicated |
释义 | medicatedadj. 1. Impregnated or mixed with medicinal substances, drugs, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > impregnation of substances with medicaments > [adjective] medicined1573 medicated1626 medicate1638 1626 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Publike Thanksgiuing 52 If some infrequent passenger crossed our streets, it was not without his medicated Posie at his nose. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iv. v. 316 I..prescribed her a medicated Ale..for her constant Drink. 1700 W. King Transactioneer ii. 49 I shall..give an account of two Medicated Springs. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxi. 206 (note) The beautiful faces of the young slaves were covered with a medicated crust..which secured them against the effects of the sun. 1850 E. B. Browning Sonnets from Portuguese xvii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 454 Antidotes Of medicated music. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 525 Medicated soaps. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 126/2 (advt.) Pulvex 6-Use, the new medicated soap for dogs, stops itching by oiling dry skin. 1990 Today's Parent Feb. 10/1 In addition to medicated products containing lindane or permethrin, a new shampoo called prioderm is available. 2. Treated with or taking a drug or remedy as medication. See also self-medicated adj., unmedicated adj.Also as the second element in compounds: cf. quot. 1898. ΚΠ 1858 Eclectic Med. Jrnl. 17 235/2 By the time that object could be accomplished under the most favorable circumstances, the non-medicated patient found his fever gone, or rapidly passing off.] 1876 Westm. Rev. July 81/1 The confessedly extensive diffusion of syphilis by compulsorily medicated women. 1898 Eclectic Med. Jrnl. 58 614 Here was a specimen that represented hundreds if not thousands of tablet medicated patients. 1939 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 17 759 Only one of the twenty-six medicated patients contracted an infection with hemolytic streptococcus in the throat flora. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 22 Feb. 452/2 We are, as a recent Lowell Lecture series put it, a ‘Medicated Society’. 2003 New Yorker 8 Dec. 113/2 I listened to the languorous pick-pock of two heavily medicated patients thwacking a Ping-Pong ball in the rec room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1626 |
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