单词 | opobalsam |
释义 | opobalsamn. Now rare. = opobalsamum n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > balsam > specific opobalsamuma1398 opobalsam1526 Samaritan's balsam1640 Peruvian balsam1666 balsam of Tolu1671 tolu balsam1671 true balsam1671 balsam of saturn1694 balm of Mecca1717 balsam of Mecca1721 friar's balsam1753 Canada balsam1754 balsam of Peru1771 Riga balsam1793 balsam of Acouchi1830 solid balsam1836 Sonsonate1852 Balm of Gilead- 1526 Grete Herball lv. sig. Dii/2 Put opobalsame to the rofe of your mouthe it wyl chaufe the brayne in suche wyse that it shal seme as it wold brenne. 1607 B. Barnes Divils Charter iii. ii Thy bed is made..With Opobalsam and rich gums of Ægipt. 1730 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 285 All Sorts of Oils, Pitch, Turpentine, Opobalsams. 1850 G. Bush Notes Bk. Genesis 233/1 This is also obtained from a tree by incision of the trunk or branches, and is sometimes termed ‘opobalsam’. 1860 Chambers's Encycl. at Balsam The finest balsam, called Opobalsam or Balm of Mecca. 1946 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) VII. 545/2 Mecca balsam, Balm of Gilead. Opobalsam, Arabian balsam. 1988 S. Rushdie Satanic Verses ii. 93 Up through the thorn-bushes and opobalsam trees he comes, scrabbling on boulders, this is a fit man, no soft-bellied usurer he. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526 |
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