| 单词 | ordeal bean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasordeal bean ordeal bean n. the seed of the Calabar bean, Physostigma venenosum, used as an ordeal poison; (also) the plant itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > bean or seed yielding poison > Calabar-bean ordeal bean1861 Calabar-bean1876 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > siddhi > bean used to counteract ordeal bean1861 Calabar-bean1876 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > trial > trial by ordeal > types of > equipment used in ironOE poison-nut1794 ordeal bean1861 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 526 Perhaps the most virulently poisonous plant of the sub-order [sc. Papilionaceae], is an unknown species..the seeds of which are known under the name of the Ordeal-beans of Old Calabar, from their being used in that district for trials by ordeal. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 884/1 The Ordeal-bean of Old Calabar..is the type of a genus of Leguminosæ of the tribe Phaseoleæ... Its seeds..are extremely poisonous;..persons suspected of witchcraft..being compelled to eat them until they vomit or die. 1921 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 92 p. xi His description of his own symptoms..occasioned by a toxic drug of unascertained action (the Calabar ordeal bean) is extraordinarily exact and instructive. 1989 Martindale's Extra Pharmacopœia (ed. 29) 1333/3 Phytostigmine... An alkaloid obtained from the calabar bean (ordeal bean; chopnut), the seed of Phytostigma venenosum. < as lemmas |
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