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单词 opobalsam
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opobalsamn.

Brit. /ˌɒpə(ʊ)ˈbɔːls(ə)m/, /ˌɒpə(ʊ)ˈbɒls(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌɑpəˈbɔlsəm/, /ˌɑpəˈbɑlsəm/
Forms: 1500s–1600s opobalsame, 1600s– opobalsam.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin opobalsamum.
Etymology: < classical Latin opobalsamum opobalsamum n. Compare Middle French, French opobalsame (1534). Compare earlier opobalsamum n.
Now rare.
= opobalsamum n.
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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).
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