单词 | absinthiate |
释义 | † absinthiateadj. Obsolete. rare. Flavoured with wormwood. ΚΠ tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 1170 De condito vel absinthio vel rosato vel violato.., absinthiate, rosate, or violate [L. conditum uel absinthiatum uel rosatum uel uiolacium], To make a wyne, is craft don to nature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). absinthiatev. rare. transitive. To impregnate with wormwood; (also) to steep in absinthe. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1816 J. Ogilvie Philos. Ess. 222 Did ever Alchymy absinthiate a chalice, with a ‘march of Hyperion’, and sometimes for an hour, darken his disk. 1852 Eclectic Rev. Jan. 27 To many, in medicine as in morals, good is not good until it has been duly absinthiated. 1909 W. H. Osborne Red Mouse 19 His brain had been absinthiated for days, his sensibilities blunted, and indignities fell from him like the proverbial water from a duck's back. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.?1440v.1816 |
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