α. late Middle English fleumagog, late Middle English fleumagoge, 1600s phlegmagog, 1600s– phlegmagogue.
β. 1500s–1600s phlegmagogon.
单词 | phlegmagogue |
释义 | phlegmagoguen.α. late Middle English fleumagog, late Middle English fleumagoge, 1600s phlegmagog, 1600s– phlegmagogue. β. 1500s–1600s phlegmagogon. Now historical. A medicine for expelling phlegm; an expectorant. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > apophlegmatic phlegmagogue?a1425 apophlegmatism1606 apophlegmatizer1671 apophlegmatic1726 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 31 In digestyng þe materie with som oximelle & euoiding it with som fleumagog [?c1425 Paris fleumagoge .i. a medecyne þat purgeþ flewme]. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. xxi. 248 Some medicine, that can purge fleume called phlegmagogon. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. li. 570 Electuary of Jallap..is a good Phlegmagogue. 1699 Remarks Eminent Antimonarchical Authors ii. 151 Then raves out to the list'ning and attentive rabble, his Choledochons, Phlegmagogons, Balms of Gilead, Conscience Salve, [etc.]. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 248 Phlegmagogues or those [medicines] which draw off pitious Matter or Phlegm by Stool. 1769 W. Smith New & Gen. Syst. Physic i. 449 Every phlegmagogue, therefore, acts either upon the intestines, or upon the pituita itself. 1825 S. Woodworth Widow's Son i. iii. 23 Blistering may answer the purpose, with a phlegmagogue, or some gentle cathartic. 1849 H. Melville Mardi II. lxxiii. 303 Those vegetable pills, potions, powders.., lotions, decoctions, washes, gargles, and phlegmagogues. 1953 Isis 44 222/2 By diminishing the quantity of the humor through bleeding, phlegmagogues, etc. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > apophlegmatic phlegmagogal1657 phlegmagogic1684 apophlegmatical1706 apophlegmatic1731 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. iii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Q Some are called Phlegmagogall [L. phlegmagogae], which purge Phlegme. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > apophlegmatic phlegmagogal1657 phlegmagogic1684 apophlegmatical1706 apophlegmatic1731 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician 144 Mercury..with..some phlegmagogick Extract [L. extracto aliquo phlegmagogo]. 1890 Cent. Dict. Phlegmagogic, I. a. Expelling phlegm; having the character of a phlegmagogue. II. n. A phlegmagogue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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