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单词 to drink supernaculum
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to drink supernaculum
1. To the last drop, to the bottom; frequently in to drink supernaculum. Also: over one's thumbnail. Now rare.With reference to the practice of turning up an emptied cup or glass on one's left thumbnail to show that all the drink has been consumed (see quot. 1592).
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [adverb] > drink off
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > completely or to the end or conclusively
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1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G2v (margin) Drinking super nagulum, a deuise of drinking new come out of Fraunce: which is, after a man hath turnde vp the bottom of his cup, to drop it on hys nayle and make a pearl with that is left which, if it slide & he cannot mak stand on, by reason thers too much, he must drinke againe for his penance.
c1600 Timon (1980) ii. v. 35 I drinke this to thee super naculum.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper i. i. 8 He drank thy health five times, supernaculum, to my Son Brain-sick.
1693 H. Higden Wary Widdow iv. 39 Here's my Leiutenants health in pure Nantz Brandy as ever was tipt Supernaculum.
1728 A. Ramsay Epist. to Friends in Ireland 11 Drinking..bumpers fair out, Supernaculum but spilling.
1784 W. A. Yardley tr. ‘A. F. de Avellaneda’ Don Quixote II. vi. vii. 221/1 Having found the bottle, he put it to his mouth, and at one pull sucked it so dry that there was not enough left to drop supernaculum.
1835 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 41 Personages..drinking supernaculum out of grotesque goblets.
1907 What to Eat June 206/2 To drink supernaculum is the rule in New York.
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