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单词 pyretic
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pyreticn.adj.

Brit. /pʌɪˈrɛtɪk/, /pᵻˈrɛtɪk/, U.S. /paɪˈrɛdɪk/
Forms: 1700s pyretick, 1700s– pyretic.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pyreticus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pyreticus (1690 in the passage translated in quot. 1693 at sense A. 1) < Hellenistic Greek πυρετικός feverish < ancient Greek πυρετός fever (see pyreto- comb. form) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French pyrétique (of a medicinal preparation) that can be used to treat fever (1765; 1756 or earlier as plural noun in a source apparently translated from English; compare sense A. 1). Compare pyrectic adj. Compare earlier antipyretic n.
Chiefly Medicine.
A. n.
1. A medicinal preparation used to treat fever or fevers; = antipyretic n. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > febrifuge or antipyretic > [noun]
fever-frighter?1611
antifebrile1661
antipyretic1681
alexipyretic1682
febrifuge1686
pyretic1707
1693 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. (ed. 2) 173 Pyretica [L. Pyretica], Medicines that cure Fevers.]
1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova Pyreticks, medicines that cure Feavers.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pyretics, Medicines good against Fevers.
2. A substance or agent that causes fever or increase in body temperature; a pyrogen. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [noun] > high temperature > cause of
inflamer1747
pyrogen1875
pyretic1892
pyrotoxin1895
1892 Year-bk. Treatm. 449 Even injections of the most powerful pyretics, such as putrescent matter, caused not the slightest rise of temperature.
1899 S. O. L. Potter Handbk. Materia Medica, Pharmacy, & Therapeutics 38 The Body-temperature is raised by Belladonna..and by Cocaine, but not to such a degree as to constitute fever or enable them to be classed as pyretics.
1943 H. M. Krueger Pharmacol. Opium Alkaloids I. 318 There was a hypersensitivity of the organism to central nervous excitants such as the pyretics, and depressants such as the antipyretics.
1982 A. S. Milton (title) Pyretics and antipyretics.
B. adj.
1. Of or relating to fever; producing pyrexia, raising the body temperature; febrile. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective]
feverousa1393
feverisha1398
febrousc1425
febrilous1651
febrile1666
febrific1749
pyrexial1787
pyrectic1822
pyretic1850
post-febrile1874
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [adjective] > high temperature > causing
inflammatory1733
warm1737
pyretic1850
pyrogenetic1871
1850 Lancet 18 May 604/2 She was attacked by erysipelas, which was accompanied by all the pyretic symptoms of this affection in a very marked degree.
1879 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (ed. 3) 650 Whenever the bodily temperature falls below normal, pyretic treatment is demanded.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. xiii. 189 If..pyretic action does not supervene, we shall save her life.
1943 E. F. Adolf Physiol. Regulations xvii. 404 It is easy enough to arrange for the inverse to happen by depleting water; then administering a pyretic drug to develop a positive heat load.
1973 Times 22 Oct. 9/2 The purge of the Justice Department has raised political temperatures here to a pyretic level.
1997 Jrnl. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. 210 1768 The horse was pyretic and had effusion in the digital synovial sheath.
2. Of a medicinal preparation: = antipyretic adj. Chiefly in pyretic saline. Now disused.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > febrifuge or antipyretic > [adjective]
antifebrific1661
febrifugal1663
febrifugous1683
antifebrile1696
febrifuge1707
anticausotic1753
alexipyretic1847
pyretic1867
antipyretic1875
1867 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 26 Nov. 1/4 Why spend months of suffering & pounds in physic, when Lamplough's Pyretic Saline restores health & vigour to the system?
1868 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 9 347 An effervescing preparation, called..‘Pyretic Salts’, and also..‘Effervescing Pyretic Saline’.
1876 Lancet 29 Apr. 655/2 To take two teaspoonfuls of pyretic saline.
1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 99 Eno's fruit salt..has overlaid that comforter of my childhood, Lamplough's pyretic saline.
1911 M. R. James More Ghost Stories Antiquary 100 The brilliant and convincing dialogue between Mr. Lamplough and an eminent K.C. on the subject of Pyretic Saline.
1936 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 58 1989/1 The introduction of an acid group..completely reverses the vasoconstricting and pyretic properties.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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