squinanceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French esquinancie, from Old French squinance, esquinance. See quinsy.

名詞

squinance (countable and uncountable, plural squinances)

1. (medicine, obsolete) The quinsy.
   • 1642, Auger Ferrier, A learned astronomical discourse of the judgement of ... (page 60)

     […] Squinances, & other sicknesses of the neck.

   • 1655, Waterman: the Sea-mans Almanack and Prognostication for the ...

     […] ring-worms, scabs, squinances, fluxes, and the like […]

   • 1662, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Oriatrike, Or, Physick Refined (page 627)

     As also in Squinances, the Toothach , and elsewhere, is oftentimes easie to be seen, especially if by a singular adulterous Allurement, the Latex be derived unto any certain part: […]

2. (obsolete) A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves, formerly thought to cure the quinsy

   Synonyms: quincewort, squinancywort

参照

• “squinance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.