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标 题: A.Word.A.Day--emetic(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2000年06月03日16:13:59 星期六), 转信
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emetic (i-MET-ik) adjective
Causing vomiting.
noun
An agent that causes vomiting.
[Latin emetica, feminine of emeticus, provoking vomiting, from Greek
emetikos, from emetos, vomiting, from emein, to vomit.]
"He was following a course of emetics, and so both ate and drank with
uninhibited enjoyment.
Saturnalia: Sub sole nihil novi, The Economist, Dec 18, 1999.
This week's theme: words from medicine.
Corrigendum: In last Sunday's (May 28, 2000) citation for the word `pelf',
the word `concentred' was mistranscribed as `concentrate'. It should have
read as follows. -Anu
"Despite those titles, power and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self."
Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
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