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单词 to make medicine
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to make medicine
c. to make medicine, (a) (among North American Indians) to engage in rituals intended to secure the favour of supernatural powers; (b) colloquial to confer, to reach agreement through discussion.
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1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 11 Jan. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 271 Some of our men go to See a war medison..made at the village on the opposit Side of the river.]
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. 248 [For] nearly every animal they hunt for,..they ‘make medicine’ for several days, to conciliate the bear (or other) Spirit, to ensure a successful season.
1890 N. P. Langford Vigilante Days (1912) 511 ‘Forty-niner’ made medicine over the fallen chief, and removed his scalp.
a1918 G. Stuart 40 Years on Frontier (1925) I. 129 The musicians are usually unsuccessful gamblers, pounding and singing to make ‘medicine’, so that the next time they would be lucky.
1929 J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country ix ‘I'll need somebody to go over the writing and put it into shape.’ We made medicine, and John Young began firing in certain episodes out of his career.
1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee xi. 265 Along the way Isatai made medicine and reassured the warriors.
1990 G. Blondin When World was New 28 They went back to the village and told the people that they planned to make medicine to find out more about these evil birds.
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