单词 | mithridatize |
释义 | mithridatizev. Now rare. transitive. To render immune to or tolerant of a poison, esp. by the administration of gradually increasing doses. Also figurative. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > immunize [verb (transitive)] > mithridatize mithridatize1866 1866 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 406 Our constitutions adapt themselves to the slow poison of the world till we become mithridatized at last. 1889 E. R. Lankester in Nature 13 June 149/2 The utility of the related terms ‘mithradatize’ and ‘mithradatic’ is obvious. 1890 E. R. Lankester Advancem. Sci. ii. 114 Poisonous snakes are..‘mithridatised’ in regard to their own poison. 1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 2799/1 This method of protecting the body against poison is called mithridatism,..and to practise it is to mithridatize..oneself. 2002 www.thenewrepublic.com 8 Jan. (O.E.D. Archive) Biographically, it can be put this way: the self medicalizes itself, or, in the classical term, mithridatizes itself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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