单词 | blue-pill |
释义 | † blue-pillv. Obsolete. transitive. To treat with blue pill. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > treat with drugs [verb (transitive)] > treat with specific drugs or medicines tartar1647 blue-pill1824 mercurialize1825 opium1825 treacle1839 tartar-emeticize1844 quinine1858 quininize1860 cinchonize1863 veratrize1891 oxalate1894 tuberculinize1897 citrate1903 strychninize1934 juice1973 1824 Monthly Gaz. Health Nov. 1154 After having been blue-pilled under Abernethy, and ammoniated and dry-rubbed under Sir Astley Cooper, without any beneficial results. 1839 W. Henry Trifles from Port-folio I. 17 Had I lived at Olney, my blue-pilling the poet would have done him far more good than all the heavy lectures his friend Newton so mercilessly showered upon him. 1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 16 Mar. 286/1 A maiden lady..who on festive occasions, and with her liver—an organ that troubled her sadly at times—blue-pilled into doing its duty, could be as sparkling as the freshest Heidsick. Derivatives blue-pilled adj. rare treated with blue pill. ΚΠ 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 355 Diseased liver is also among the frequent curses of the kennel, insomuch that those hounds, who may, by dint of the apothecary's shop, bring their blue-pilled carcases to the cover side,..never manifest the dash and eagerness by which the English fox-hound is so pre-eminently distinguished. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < v.1824 |
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