hierapicraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• hickery-pickery, hickory-pickery, higry-pigry

語源

From New Latin hiera picra, from Ancient Greek ἱερᾱ́ πίκρᾱ (hierā́ píkrā, literally “sacred bitterness”).

名詞

hiera picra (uncountable)

1. (pharmacology, now historical) A warming cathartic medicine made from aloes and canella.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 77:

     His hiera picra formula called for aloes, spices and herbs; the compound was made into an electuary.