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单词 vomitory
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vomitoryn.

Brit. /ˈvɒmᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈvɑməˌtɔri/
Forms: Also 1600s, 1800s vomitary.
Etymology: < Latin vomitōrium (whence French vomitoire , Spanish vomitorio , Portuguese vomitorio , Italian vomitorio ): see vomitorium n. and vomitory adj.
1. A medicine or the like which causes or induces vomiting; an emetic. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > emetic
vomita1400
vomitory1601
vomitive1611
vomiter1634
nauseate1651
emetic1658
puker1714
puke1729
pick1824
nauseant1825
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 252 This Tithymall is nothing so strong a vomitorie as the former.
1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours 448 Much lesse vomitaries; for of all evacuations a vomit is the most grievous and dangerous. [But p. 338 vomitories.]
1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xix. 38 Having a power to force themselves a vomiting..by straining, or by other means in taking Vomitories privately.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. ix. 414/2 A most gentle Vomitory, Dejectory, and Diaphoretick.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Anacatharsis Vomitories, sternutatories or masticatories.
figurative.1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iv. xxxiv. 338 So infirme..are all those things which are prescribed against this sort of poyson, but especially vomitories who do..offer great violence to Nature.
2. An opening, door, or passage in a theatre, playhouse, or the like, affording ingress or egress to the spectators; originally (and usually) = vomitorium n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > other parts of auditorium
area1627
vomitory1730
orchestra1768
Fops' alley1782
crush-room1806
basket1812
lattice1818
1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 274 He had made the number of the Vomitories in the Middle full in the second Line.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 351 Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth the immense multitude.
1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. v. 407 Low ranges of buildings, consisting of spacious halls with wide doors or vomitories opening into the square.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 629/1 Yonder are the vomitories through which..the tide of eager population flowed.
1861 E. A. Beaufort Egypt. Sepulchres II. xxiv. 320 Near this are the remains of a once fine theatre..: some of the vomitories still remain.
3.
a. A funnel, vent, or other opening through which matter is emitted or discharged.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > means of exit > specific for things
emissary1601
outcast1601
vent1602
fontanelle1649
pass-port1682
vomitory1822
emissory1858
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 427 A low building, which is almost all chimney—it has indeed a wide-throated vomitory..for so tiny an edifice.
1833 C. J. Napier Colonies 3 The innumerable tributary rivers which send their waters through these mighty vomitaries into the ocean.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man xv. 307 From this vomitory, the old glacier poured into the plains..that wonderful accumulation of mud.
1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 165 Those roaring vomitories [sc. volcanoes] of the underworld.
b. In figurative use.
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1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 790 His tongue struck dumb in his cheek, and the vomitory of vociferation hermetically sealed.
1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 26 917 Our three great theatres, which Mr. Prynne..proved long ago to be vomitories of vice.
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 236 The great vomitory of the London press.
1878 J. Thomson Plenipotent Key 25 Your shameless charlatans whose dirty tricks And frothy gab defile all politics..Retard sure progress—damn such vomitories!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

vomitoryadj.

Brit. /ˈvɒmᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈvɑməˌtɔri/
Etymology: < Latin vomitōrius, < vomĕre to vomit v.: see -ory suffix2.
1. Of or pertaining to vomiting.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > relating to vomiting
vomitory1620
vomitive1658
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 103 Their heating, cutting, attenuating and vomitorie facultie.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 86 Its Regulus will manifestly communicate unto water, or wine, a purging and vomitory operation. View more context for this quotation
1682 N. Grew Idea Philos. Hist. Plants 4 in Anat. Plants Whence one [faculty] becomes Purgative, another Vomitory, a third Diaphoretick.
1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 94 If we will believe the Ingenious Dr. Carr.., there is an Emetick Vomitory vertue in the Sea-water it self.
1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 684 Vomitory agonies, and spasms of the diaphragm.
2. Efficacious in promoting vomiting; causing vomiting; emetic.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > relating to vomiting > causing vomiting
vomiting1575
vomitory1634
emetic1670
emetical1670
anacathartic1696
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvi. v. 1033 Agaricke, and other nauseous and vomitory medicines.
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 228 A Physitian of the City offers him a vomitory potion, whereby he vomited twice every day.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 212 After taking a Medicine, whether sudorifick or vomitory.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1337/2 Vomitorius,..causing vomiting; emetic;..vomitory.
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