单词 | botanic |
释义 | botanicadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to botany or plants; = botanical adj. 1.Now largely superseded by botanical, except in the names of some older institutions, especially those founded before the second half of the 19th cent., such as ‘The Royal Botanic Gardens’ at Kew (cf. botanic garden n. at Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [adjective] botanical1627 botanic1647 phytological1654 botanomical1656 palaeophytologic1969 1647 W. Petty Advice to Hartlib 16 The Apprentice shall read some good pharmaceuticall, Botanick and Chymicall Institutions. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Botanical or Botanic, belonging to Herbs or Plants. 1735 J. Thomson Greece: 2nd Pt. Liberty 140 Where..Hymettus spread..to botanick hand the stores of health. 1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 21 He probably engraved the botanic figures for Lobel's Observations. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Amphion in Poems (new ed.) II. 169 They read Botanic Treatises, And Works on Gardening thro' there. 1900 H. L. Keeler Our Native Trees 18 There seem to be no botanic distinctions sufficiently constant upon which to base a variety. 2013 Daily Tel. 31 July 19/1 It gained the name ‘Oxford ragwort’ because it was cultivated in the botanic garden of that city. 2. Designating or relating to herbal or botanical medicine; spec. (esp. in the 19th and early 20th centuries) designating a student or practitioner of botanical medicine (now chiefly historical). See also botanic medicine n. at Compounds. Cf. botanical adj. 2. ΚΠ 1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients xciii. 240 Bring along with thee all thy Recipe's and Drugs. As for Botanic Remedies, we have enough. 1833 Thomsonian Recorder 23 Feb. 245/2 The arsenic that was found in a bottle of alcohol a botanic physician had procured. 1861 Q. Rev. 1 July 83/2 Students could have access to a library of approved botanic texts while working under the direction of botanic physicians. 1895 Med. News 66 120/1 The main body of the adherents..rejected Thomson's claims to a monopoly... They generally styled their system the botanic or botanico-medical system. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Med. 22 562/2 Just then the extravagant claims of an old botanic practitioner regarding the wonderful effects of Indian tobacco came to mind. 2011 J. M. Kriebs in T. L. King & M. C. Brucker Pharmacol. for Women's Health xxvi. 800/2 Herbal or botanic remedies (e.g., witch hazel, chamomile, aloe vera)..are also used. B. n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [noun] > botanist herbary1548 herbarian1577 herbarist1577 herborist1578 herbalist1594 herbist1611 herbister1623 botanist1647 botanic1655 botanologer1658 phytologist1706 philo-botanist1824 1655 R. Child in S. Hartlib Legacy (ed. 3) 154 Parkinson, an able Botanick, saith it [sc. Rattle-snake Grasse] flourisheth with us in June and July. 1676 J. Worlidge Apiarium v. 24 A Tree..esteemed injurious to Bees..by..our modern Botanicks. 1715 S. Switzer Nobleman, Gentleman, & Gardener's Recreation i. 37 We..come nearer to the History of these Times, and peruse the Writings of the Botanicks. 2. A student or practitioner of botanical medicine. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1835 Thomsonian Recorder 3 29/2 The least fortunate of Botanics, would loose [sic] nothing by a comparison with the most successful of the faculty perhaps in any country. 1888 Med. World 6 19 Neither has it [sc. the state] the right to compel him to employ a regular physician if he prefers a botanic, eclectic, or homeopath. 1948 Pacific Hist. Rev. 17 205 A full treatment is accorded the less respectable schools of thought such as the homeopaths and the botanics. 2000 J. S. Haller People's Doctors 132 This act meant that a botanic, no matter how successful, had no protection in the law. Compounds botanic garden n. = botanical garden n. at botanical adj. and n. Compounds. Also with capital initials in the names of particular institutions. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > public gardens garden1612 spring garden1612 botanic garden1662 villaa1684 botanical garden1704 the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden grounda1500 knot-garden1519 back-garden1535 summer garden1589 spring garden1612 spring gardena1625 water gardena1626 walled gardena1631 wildernessa1644 window garden1649 botanic garden1662 Hanging Gardens1705 winter garden1736 cottage garden1765 Vauxhall1770 English garden1771 wall garden1780 chinampa1787 moat garden1826 gardenesque1832 sunk garden1835 roof garden1844 weedery1847 wild garden1852 rootery1855 beer-garden1863 Japanese garden1863 bog-garden1883 Italian garden1883 community garden1884 sink garden1894 trough garden1935 sand garden1936 Zen garden1937 hydroponicum1938 tub garden1974 rain garden1994 1662 E. Reynolds in H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum To Rdr. As rendred it [sc. this Body of Divinity] to me like a large Botanick garden, wherein there are Fruits for the Palate,..Flowers for the Eye, Rarities for the Curious..; something or other to please and entertain every comer. 1762 Public Advertiser 25 June The Plant of the true Socotorine Aloe may be procured from most of the Botanic Gardens about London. 1854 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 5 Jan. 115/1 Mr. Moore, of the Botanic Gardens, presented samples of two most delicious jams. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1126 The Cycads or sago-palms..may be seen in the greenhouses of botanic gardens. 2011 B. Hauser New Kids iii. 197 In the Botanic Garden new buds sprouted on the branches of cherry blossom trees. botanic medicine n. now chiefly historical herbal medicine; an example of this; = botanical medicine n. at botanical adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1771 Scots Mag. Feb. 75/2 Dioscorides, the father of Botanic Medicine, commends the herb plainly enough for this use. 1830 E. Smith Bot. Physician p. iv Are botanic medicines so intrinsically inefficient, or so deservedly so unpopular, that they should forever be condemned to insignificance? 1899 Med. Brief 27 214/2 When Samuel Thomson began curing the sick with steam and simple botanic medicines there was a rush made to the legislative halls and laws passed to suppress ‘botanic quacks’, as they were called. 1910 J. P. Dunn Greater Indianapolis xli. 546/2 On July 9, Morrison & Tomlinson, the regular druggists, advertised a stock of botanic medicines. 1961 Mich. Alumnus Q. Rev. 25 Feb. 83/2 Botanic medicine would also be forced to share the field of reform with allopaths, homeopaths, and a variety of other groups. 2013 J. S. Haller Med. Protestants 53 [It] became, next to Thomson's New Guide to Health, the most popular textbook on botanic medicine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1647 |
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