potionn.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊʃn/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊʃ(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English pocioun, Middle English pocyoun, Middle English porciouns (plural, transmission error), Middle English poscioun, Middle English–1500s pocion, Middle English–1500s pocyon, 1500s– potion; Scottish pre-1700 potioun, pre-1700 potioune, pre-1700 poton, pre-1700 poycion, pre-1700 1700s– potion.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French potion.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pocioun, potun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French potion, Middle French pocion (end of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman; French potion ) < classical Latin pōtiōn- , pōtiō action of drinking, a drink, draught, poisonous draught, philtre < the stem of pōtāre to drink (see potation n.) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish poción drink, potion (1424; a1250 as poçon , also in sense ‘poison’), Italian pozione medicinal drink, potion (1210). Compare earlier poison n. and also the Romance forms listed at that entry.

a. A liquid, usually taken orally, with healing, magical, or poisonous qualities; (also, with disparaging connotations) an unorthodox or quack medicine. See also love potion n. at love n.¹ Compounds 6.Formerly also as a mass noun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun]

drenchc1000

drink1362

supping medicinea1400

poisonc1400

potionc1400

potationa1475

draught1631

potent1902

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > draught

poisonc1225

potion1597

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 3504 (MED) He..saued hym wiþ pociouns And made hym hole man and fere.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 411 (MED) He receyvede a pocion of Philippe his phisicion.

c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 481 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 143 It is lyk to poycion men takis fore purgacione.

1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. A.ij If a man may be cured with Dyet and Pocion, let there not be ministred any Chirurgerie.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 243 Then did I giue her..A potion that should make her seeme as dead.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 370 Bewitched by sorcerie and amorous potions.

1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World vi. xxxiv. 629/2 In one day he took two and twenty Potions of Hellebore, and yet was not purged thereby.

1712 Boston News-let. 17 Mar. 2/2 Potions for Children, with directions; And all sorts of Cordial Waters, Cupping-glasses.

1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 84 To discern the innocent..by trials of fire and potions.

1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art (1850) 435 Neither potions nor physicians can do more than postpone the evil hour.

1898 Times 1 June 5/3 The medieval belief in the efficacy of strange potions culled from animals and compounded with the help of magic spells.

1917 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 13 Nov. 1/2 Gives fatal potions to her little boy.

1948 Lincoln (Nebraska) State Jrnl. 28 Sept. 9/2 [He] had admitted administering a deadly potion to the employees and fleeing with a large amount of yen.

1979 D. Smith Cookery Course II. 420 Some vegetarian and healthfood shops do have their weird corners full of pills and potions.

1994 Aquinas Rev. 1 55 This passage, in both books, immediately precedes the important figure of the cup of wormwood, a bitter but health-giving potion.

b. figurative. Something administered by way of punishment, remedy, etc.

ΚΠ

1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) iv. f. 95 He goeth about to qualify and mitigate his bitter Potion.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 129 Your Lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment to me.

1631 T. Heywood England's Elizabeth (1641) 108 The bitter potion of indignity.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 105 To administer the opiate potion of amnesty.

1869 J. S. Blackie Musa Burschicosa 53 Take my advice sans offence; To make harmless the potion, Of each darling notion.

1918 W. Lewis Tarr i. 17 Your flabby potion is a mixture of the lees of Liberalism, the poor froth blown off the decadent nineties, the wardrobe-leavings of a vulgar Bohemianism with its head-quarters in Chelsea.

2. A measure of drink, a draught; a dose (of medicine). Also figurative. Now archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught

shenchc950

drinkc1000

draughtc1200

beveragec1390

napa1450

potation1479–81

potionc1484

slaker?1518

glut1541

pocill1572

adipson1601

go-down1614

slash1614

gulf1674

libation1751

meridian1771

sinda1774

sling1788

mahogany1791

a shove in the mouth1821

nooner1836

quencher1841

refresh1851

slackener1861

squencher1871

refreshener1888

refresher1922

maiden's blush1941

maiden's water1975

c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 145 Man is made..of sqwyche humorys þat alle-wey nedyth noryschyng and fedyng and pocyonis [a1500 Lamb. drynke] [L. pocionibus].

1526 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 115 Inprimis to the justice ane potioun of wyne; item to my lord chancellar, ane potioun of wyne.

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 375 This drawing oute was inuented for delicate persones and such as be of a weake stomack, for them that can not abyde nor beare a great potion of any lousing medicine.

1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xi. 856 Temper'd in this, the Nymph of Form divine Pours a large Potion of the Pramnian Wine.

1753 E. F. Haywood Jemmy & Jenny Jessamy xxiv. 263 It affords me..a double potion of satisfaction, to see my friends happiness go hand in hand with mine.

1813 Sporting Mag. 42 218 Like Homer's Gods quite muzz'd in oceans, Or the pure nectarean potions.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iii. 16 Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses.

1864 A. J. Evans Macaria xxxv. 456 Dr. Arnold re-entered, and immediately after gave him another potion of morphene.

1885 Cent. Mag. July 445/2 I employed the morning dosing all hands with enormous potions of quinine and epsom salts.

1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse II. vi. xliii. 646 Ferdinando kept on insisting that he take double potions of the cinchona drench to ward off the fever.

1964 Punch 15 Jan. 92/2 Fortified by a full potion of akvavit.

3. A kind of drink; a beverage. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > [noun]

drencha800

drunka800

drinkc888

wetec897

liquor1340

beveragec1400

bever?1453

pitcher-meat1551

bum1570

pot1583

nin1611

sorbition1623

potablesa1625

potion1634

refreshment1639

potulent1656

sorbicle1657

pote1694

drinkable1708

potation1742

rinfresco1745

sup1782

bouvragea1815

potatory1834

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 150 They [sc. Persians] vse another potion, faire water, juice of Lemmons, Sugar, and Roses.

2002 N.Y. Times 3 Feb. ix. 8/1 Consider the cosmopolitan, the vodka and cranberry juice potion adopted by chic city women as a kind of emblem, along with strappy sandals.

Compounds

General attributive.

potion merchant n.

ΚΠ

1983 New Scientist 10 Mar. 674/3 But are the pill and potion merchants the right, proper and natural sources of guidance and advice?

1995 Inter Press Service (Nexis) 7 Feb. Jostling for space with other vendors on the street, the potion merchants offer a remarkable commodity.

potion-monger n.

ΚΠ

1894 H. A. Jones in Daily News 7 May 6/5 The family friend, rather than the doser and potion-monger.

1992 Financial Times (Nexis) 11 July 20 A prison of perpetual dieting,..upheld by a host of potionmongers and sunbed suppliers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

potionv.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊʃn/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊʃ(ə)n/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: potion n.

Etymology: < potion n. Compare post-classical Latin potionare potionate v.

colloquial and humorous in later use.

transitive. To treat or dose with a potion; to drug with a potion. Also occasionally intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > drug [verb (transitive)]

narcotize1526

potion1611

druga1730

hocus1831

dope1889

slug1925

snow1927

bomb1950

to hop up1968

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > treat with drugs [verb (transitive)]

physicc1400

pharmacize1609

potion1611

dose1654

store1722

draughta1777

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xi. 561/1 Hauing corrupted his Keepers, or..hauing potioned them with a sleepy drinke, [he] escaped out of the Tower of London.

1745 H. Fielding Charge to Jury 1 He,..the Body of the said Robert at Orfud did pill and potion.

a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 58 Full power..to pill, bolus, lotion, potion,..and poultice, all persons.

1798 J. Montgomery Whisperer x. 87 Completely pilled, purged, potioned, powdered, bled, blistered, clystered and electrified into his senses.

1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 25 May 321/1 Puff'd and potion'd up like any bladder.

1854 ‘F. Fern’ Fern Leaves 2nd Ser. 346 He pill-ed and potioned, and emetic-ed,..till you were so transparent, that even John Mitchell..could have seen through you.

1973 Times 5 May 7/6 They potioned and plastered themselves with every medicine short of fetish charms.

2003 Wichita Eagle (Nexis) 8 Sept. c1 Those little specs [sc. freckles] that we've rubbed and scrubbed, lotioned and potioned trying to lighten or get rid of completely for the past thousand years.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	potion
释义	potionn. Brit. /ˈpəʊʃn/, U.S. /ˈpoʊʃ(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English pocioun, Middle English pocyoun, Middle English porciouns (plural, transmission error), Middle English poscioun, Middle English–1500s pocion, Middle English–1500s pocyon, 1500s– potion; Scottish pre-1700 potioun, pre-1700 potioune, pre-1700 poton, pre-1700 poycion, pre-1700 1700s– potion. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French potion. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pocioun, potun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French potion, Middle French pocion (end of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman; French potion ) < classical Latin pōtiōn- , pōtiō action of drinking, a drink, draught, poisonous draught, philtre < the stem of pōtāre to drink (see potation n.) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish poción drink, potion (1424; a1250 as poçon , also in sense ‘poison’), Italian pozione medicinal drink, potion (1210). Compare earlier poison n. and also the Romance forms listed at that entry. 1. a. A liquid, usually taken orally, with healing, magical, or poisonous qualities; (also, with disparaging connotations) an unorthodox or quack medicine. See also love potion n. at love n.¹ Compounds 6.Formerly also as a mass noun. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] drenchc1000 drink1362 supping medicinea1400 poisonc1400 potionc1400 potationa1475 draught1631 potent1902 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > draught poisonc1225 potion1597 c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 3504 (MED) He..saued hym wiþ pociouns And made hym hole man and fere. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 411 (MED) He receyvede a pocion of Philippe his phisicion. c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 481 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 143 It is lyk to poycion men takis fore purgacione. 1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. A.ij If a man may be cured with Dyet and Pocion, let there not be ministred any Chirurgerie. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 243 Then did I giue her..A potion that should make her seeme as dead. View more context for this quotation 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 370 Bewitched by sorcerie and amorous potions. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World vi. xxxiv. 629/2 In one day he took two and twenty Potions of Hellebore, and yet was not purged thereby. 1712 Boston News-let. 17 Mar. 2/2 Potions for Children, with directions; And all sorts of Cordial Waters, Cupping-glasses. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 84 To discern the innocent..by trials of fire and potions. 1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art (1850) 435 Neither potions nor physicians can do more than postpone the evil hour. 1898 Times 1 June 5/3 The medieval belief in the efficacy of strange potions culled from animals and compounded with the help of magic spells. 1917 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 13 Nov. 1/2 Gives fatal potions to her little boy. 1948 Lincoln (Nebraska) State Jrnl. 28 Sept. 9/2 [He] had admitted administering a deadly potion to the employees and fleeing with a large amount of yen. 1979 D. Smith Cookery Course II. 420 Some vegetarian and healthfood shops do have their weird corners full of pills and potions. 1994 Aquinas Rev. 1 55 This passage, in both books, immediately precedes the important figure of the cup of wormwood, a bitter but health-giving potion. b. figurative. Something administered by way of punishment, remedy, etc. ΚΠ 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) iv. f. 95 He goeth about to qualify and mitigate his bitter Potion. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 129 Your Lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment to me. View more context for this quotation 1631 T. Heywood England's Elizabeth (1641) 108 The bitter potion of indignity. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 105 To administer the opiate potion of amnesty. View more context for this quotation 1869 J. S. Blackie Musa Burschicosa 53 Take my advice sans offence; To make harmless the potion, Of each darling notion. 1918 W. Lewis Tarr i. 17 Your flabby potion is a mixture of the lees of Liberalism, the poor froth blown off the decadent nineties, the wardrobe-leavings of a vulgar Bohemianism with its head-quarters in Chelsea. 2. A measure of drink, a draught; a dose (of medicine). Also figurative. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught shenchc950 drinkc1000 draughtc1200 beveragec1390 napa1450 potation1479–81 potionc1484 slaker?1518 glut1541 pocill1572 adipson1601 go-down1614 slash1614 gulf1674 libation1751 meridian1771 sinda1774 sling1788 mahogany1791 a shove in the mouth1821 nooner1836 quencher1841 refresh1851 slackener1861 squencher1871 refreshener1888 refresher1922 maiden's blush1941 maiden's water1975 c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 145 Man is made..of sqwyche humorys þat alle-wey nedyth noryschyng and fedyng and pocyonis [a1500 Lamb. drynke] [L. pocionibus]. 1526 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 115 Inprimis to the justice ane potioun of wyne; item to my lord chancellar, ane potioun of wyne. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 375 This drawing oute was inuented for delicate persones and such as be of a weake stomack, for them that can not abyde nor beare a great potion of any lousing medicine. 1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xi. 856 Temper'd in this, the Nymph of Form divine Pours a large Potion of the Pramnian Wine. 1753 E. F. Haywood Jemmy & Jenny Jessamy xxiv. 263 It affords me..a double potion of satisfaction, to see my friends happiness go hand in hand with mine. 1813 Sporting Mag. 42 218 Like Homer's Gods quite muzz'd in oceans, Or the pure nectarean potions. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iii. 16 Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses. 1864 A. J. Evans Macaria xxxv. 456 Dr. Arnold re-entered, and immediately after gave him another potion of morphene. 1885 Cent. Mag. July 445/2 I employed the morning dosing all hands with enormous potions of quinine and epsom salts. 1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse II. vi. xliii. 646 Ferdinando kept on insisting that he take double potions of the cinchona drench to ward off the fever. 1964 Punch 15 Jan. 92/2 Fortified by a full potion of akvavit. 3. A kind of drink; a beverage. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] drencha800 drunka800 drinkc888 wetec897 liquor1340 beveragec1400 bever?1453 pitcher-meat1551 bum1570 pot1583 nin1611 sorbition1623 potablesa1625 potion1634 refreshment1639 potulent1656 sorbicle1657 pote1694 drinkable1708 potation1742 rinfresco1745 sup1782 bouvragea1815 potatory1834 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 150 They [sc. Persians] vse another potion, faire water, juice of Lemmons, Sugar, and Roses. 2002 N.Y. Times 3 Feb. ix. 8/1 Consider the cosmopolitan, the vodka and cranberry juice potion adopted by chic city women as a kind of emblem, along with strappy sandals. Compounds General attributive. potion merchant n. ΚΠ 1983 New Scientist 10 Mar. 674/3 But are the pill and potion merchants the right, proper and natural sources of guidance and advice? 1995 Inter Press Service (Nexis) 7 Feb. Jostling for space with other vendors on the street, the potion merchants offer a remarkable commodity. potion-monger n. ΚΠ 1894 H. A. Jones in Daily News 7 May 6/5 The family friend, rather than the doser and potion-monger. 1992 Financial Times (Nexis) 11 July 20 A prison of perpetual dieting,..upheld by a host of potionmongers and sunbed suppliers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). potionv. Brit. /ˈpəʊʃn/, U.S. /ˈpoʊʃ(ə)n/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: potion n. Etymology: < potion n. Compare post-classical Latin potionare potionate v. colloquial and humorous in later use. transitive. To treat or dose with a potion; to drug with a potion. Also occasionally intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > drug [verb (transitive)] narcotize1526 potion1611 druga1730 hocus1831 dope1889 slug1925 snow1927 bomb1950 hit1953 to hop up1968 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > treat with drugs [verb (transitive)] physicc1400 pharmacize1609 potion1611 dose1654 store1722 draughta1777 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xi. 561/1 Hauing corrupted his Keepers, or..hauing potioned them with a sleepy drinke, [he] escaped out of the Tower of London. 1745 H. Fielding Charge to Jury 1 He,..the Body of the said Robert at Orfud did pill and potion. a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 58 Full power..to pill, bolus, lotion, potion,..and poultice, all persons. 1798 J. Montgomery Whisperer x. 87 Completely pilled, purged, potioned, powdered, bled, blistered, clystered and electrified into his senses. 1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 25 May 321/1 Puff'd and potion'd up like any bladder. 1854 ‘F. Fern’ Fern Leaves 2nd Ser. 346 He pill-ed and potioned, and emetic-ed,..till you were so transparent, that even John Mitchell..could have seen through you. 1973 Times 5 May 7/6 They potioned and plastered themselves with every medicine short of fetish charms. 2003 Wichita Eagle (Nexis) 8 Sept. c1 Those little specs [sc. freckles] that we've rubbed and scrubbed, lotioned and potioned trying to lighten or get rid of completely for the past thousand years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400v.1611
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