单词 | restringent |
释义 | restringentadj.n. A. adj. 1. Medicine. Binding; drying; constricting; spec. tending to halt or prevent the flow of body fluids, esp. blood or diarrhoea. Cf. astringent adj. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [adjective] bindingc1384 restraininga1398 straininga1398 constraining1398 strictivea1400 stypticc1400 restrictive?a1425 styptical1528 astringent?1541 constrictive1541 restringitive1559 astrictive1562 restringing1562 restringent1565 constringent1603 astrictory1620 styptive1640 constipating1658 stegnotic1674 staltic1748 constringing1757 apocrustic1853 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [adjective] > specifically of outward applications restringent1565 1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 90 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. And (because it is restryngente) is profitably geuen to Dysentericis, muliebri profluuio, and to reiections of bloude. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. vii. v. f. 38v/2 We must as then strowe some restringent poulder one that parte, and applye therone..an ordinarye restringent, or defensive plaster. a1652 I. Jones Most Notable Antiq. called Stone-Heng (1655) 36 The sand..doth (by the restringent quality..of the salt water) become a stone. 1689 J. Moyle Abstr. Sea Chyrurg. i. 18 Let your Restringent Powder be there likewise with the rest of your first intentions. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Scabbed Heels After which apply a restringent Charge of Powder of unslack'd Lime. 1795 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 3) I. 264 This will be found to vary frequently; sometimes calling for restringent, and at others, opening remedies. 1852 B. B. Cooper Lect. Princ. & Pract. Surg. xvii. 428 Strict attention to diet, change of air, tonic medicines, shower baths,and restringent injections into the rectum, are all requisite. 1977 R. B. Tisserand Art of Aromatherapy xi. 215 Because of its restringent effect on body fluids one would expect it to be most useful for the phlegmatic, loquacious type. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [adjective] > constipated fastOE costivea1400 hardbound?a1425 embowelled1486 encumber1486 bound1530 constipate1542 constipated1547 styptic1582 costic1595 belly-bound1607 restringenta1661 unmoved1810 confined1822 screwbound1837 impacted1844 a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 191 My body was not costive and restringent, but soluble and laxative sufficient. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [adjective] > astringent stypticc1400 austere?a1425 Pontic?a1425 harshc1440 styptical1528 unmild1566 stringent1605 styptive1640 restringent1683 subastringent1788 puckery1833 1683 G. Harvey Conclave of Physicians xvi. 178 It [sc. Jesuits Bark] is restringent, the Tast doth attest by the perception of Contraction, and roughness upon the Tongue. 1753 J. Cooke in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. liv. 364 [Water] which appears to be impregnated with allom, being so acid and restringent as not to be borne long in the mouth. 1809 W. Nicholson Brit. Encycl. I. at Anacardium The fruit has an agreeable subacid flavour, in some degree restringent. 1859 J. King Amer. Dispensatory (ed. 5) i. 27 The plant possesses a faint, pleasant, peculiar fragrance, and a rather sharp, rough, restringent taste. 1. A word, etc., which has a limitative or restricting force. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > modifier or qualifier qualifier1589 restringenta1626 restrictive1642 modificativea1661 qualificativea1661 modifier1865 a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. (1661) x. 461 But if you will have pauperibus a restringent, you may: but then you must take it for poor in spirit. 1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 4 Non-conformists..do indeed tell us of the death of our Lord Jesus, not with your ill appropriat and restringent only, but do preach to us alwayes and principally this doctrine of his Cross. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. 268 We might well call its two propositions together the restringent or restrictive,..and the product the restrict or restricted. 2. Medicine. A restringent medicine or treatment. Cf. astringent n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [noun] restrictorya1398 styptica1400 restrictivec1425 clammer1597 astringent1626 astrictive1657 subastringent1661 astringer1662 restringent1666 stegnotic1684 apocrustic1706 obstruent1892 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxxv. 223 The two latter indicate Phlebotomy for revulsion, restringents to stench, and incrassatives to thicken the blood. 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 28 Would you not think that Physician mad, who having prescribed a Purge, should immediately order you to take restringents upon it? 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. vi. 83 They should on the fourth Day return to the Senate House, attended by their Apothecaries stored with proper Medicines, and before the Members sate, administer to each of them Lenitives, Aperitives, Abstersives, Corrosives, Restringents, [etc.]. 1792 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis (rev. ed.) ii. 208 He's been fed with restringents, and curtain-rod diet. 1821 W. Liddle Poems 183 As your friends hae ta'en the sk—ers, They'll need restringents. 1884–5 J. U. Lloyd & C. J. Lloyd Drugs & Medicines N. Amer. I. 50 (note) Astringents (or restringents) were..always understood to be remedies that ‘contracted’, ‘puckered’ (the mouth, etc.), and the meaning tonic is only secondary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1565 |
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