英语词汇“to be cut for the simples”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†c. In plural. Foolish or silly behaviour, folly (humorously imagined as a medical condition). Frequently in phrases relating to attempting to cure this condition, esp. to be cut for the simples and variants. Obsolete (English regional in later use).The original allusion in to cut for the simples was probably to bloodletting as a medical procedure, although sometimes in later use punning reference to sense B. 4a is inferred, especially in the elaborated phrase to go to Battersea to be cut for the simples (see quot. 1785).

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the world > health and disease > mental health > be sane [verb (intransitive)] > be restored to sanity

to be cut for the simples1637

the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > undergo psychiatric treatment [verb (intransitive)] > participate in specific therapy

to be cut for the simples1637

primal1971

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > action, behaviour

ribaldyc1330

niceheada1475

simpleness?a1475

foolery1562

motley1575

foolationa1635

simples1637

nonsense1678

follying1818

boobery1829

spoonism1839

moonraking1846

lallygagging1868

bohunkus1918

twattery?1979

1637 T. Brian Pisse-prophet v. 37 I were troubled with the simples.

1641 J. Taylor Mercuries Message Defended 22 You must with much patience prepare your selfe to be cut of the simples.

1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 415 ‘To be sick of the simples’, to Act the fool.

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 44 His bare Shadow has cur'd many a poor Creature of the Simples.

1767 Let. 10 Oct. in Contest (1768) 19 A patient just come out from the old woman's at Battersea, after having been cut for the simples.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Simples He must go to Battersea, to be cut for the simples... The gardners [at Battersea] were said to cut their [sc. apothecaries'] simples, whence it became a popular joke, to advise young people to go to Battersea at that time, to have their simples cut, or to be cut for the simples.

1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve vi. 28 'Tis time her was cut for the simples.

1922 J. C. Snaith Van Roon xxv. 148 Boy, you ought to be bled for the simples to let a paltry hussy get round you in this way.

单词	to be cut for the simples
释义	> as lemmas to be cut for the simples †c. In plural. Foolish or silly behaviour, folly (humorously imagined as a medical condition). Frequently in phrases relating to attempting to cure this condition, esp. to be cut for the simples and variants. Obsolete (English regional in later use).The original allusion in to cut for the simples was probably to bloodletting as a medical procedure, although sometimes in later use punning reference to sense B. 4a is inferred, especially in the elaborated phrase to go to Battersea to be cut for the simples (see quot. 1785). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > be sane [verb (intransitive)] > be restored to sanity to be cut for the simples1637 the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > undergo psychiatric treatment [verb (intransitive)] > participate in specific therapy to be cut for the simples1637 primal1971 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > action, behaviour ribaldyc1330 niceheada1475 simpleness?a1475 foolery1562 motley1575 foolationa1635 simples1637 nonsense1678 follying1818 boobery1829 spoonism1839 moonraking1846 lallygagging1868 bohunkus1918 twattery?1979 1637 T. Brian Pisse-prophet v. 37 I were troubled with the simples. 1641 J. Taylor Mercuries Message Defended 22 You must with much patience prepare your selfe to be cut of the simples. 1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 415 ‘To be sick of the simples’, to Act the fool. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 44 His bare Shadow has cur'd many a poor Creature of the Simples. 1767 Let. 10 Oct. in Contest (1768) 19 A patient just come out from the old woman's at Battersea, after having been cut for the simples. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Simples He must go to Battersea, to be cut for the simples... The gardners [at Battersea] were said to cut their [sc. apothecaries'] simples, whence it became a popular joke, to advise young people to go to Battersea at that time, to have their simples cut, or to be cut for the simples. 1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve vi. 28 'Tis time her was cut for the simples. 1922 J. C. Snaith Van Roon xxv. 148 Boy, you ought to be bled for the simples to let a paltry hussy get round you in this way. extracted from simpleadj.n.adv.int. < as lemmas
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