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单词 mortificative
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mortificativeadj.

Forms: late Middle English mortificatif, late Middle English mortificatiue, late Middle English mortificatyf, 1500s mortyfycatyfe.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mortificativus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin mortificativus deadly (from the first half of the 13th cent. in British sources) < mortificat- , past participial stem of mortificare mortify v. + -ivus -ive suffix; compare -ative suffix. Compare Middle French mortificatif (adjective) that deadens pain (1568).
Obsolete.
Deadly, poisonous; caustic, astringent.
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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 177 Arsenicum & auripigmentum beþ myneralez &..þai ar putrefactyue & mortificatiue gretely [?c1425 Paris ben roting and ful dedly].
?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 43 (MED) Anoþer clister þat is clepyd mortificatyf.
1526 Grete Herball cccxxix. sig. Sv/2 The blacke [poppy] is colde & drye and the reed is more mortyfycatyfe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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