| 单词 |
comfortative |
| 释义 |
† comfortative, a. and n. Obs.
Also con-.
[ME. confortatif, a. F. confortatif, -ive:—L. type *confortātīv-us: see comfort v. and -ative.]
A. adj. Having the quality of comforting.
1. Strengthening, reviving (medicine, food, etc.).
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xli. (1495) 627 Saffron is confortatyf. c1440Gesta Rom. 338 (Add. MS.) It must be wyne confortatif [v.r. comfortable] that shuld be yeven to the sike. 1567Drant Horace's Epist. xviii. F v, For life and limmes comfortityue. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 149 It is of a notable abstersiue, consolidatiue and confortatiue [1650 comfortative] faculty. 1683Salmon Doron Med. i. 299 Incarnative, Comfortative, Regenerative.
2. Cheering; cheerful. rare—1.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 213 Þe loue þat lith in his herte maketh hym lyȝte of speche, And is companable and confortatyf, as cryst bit hymselue, Nolite fieri sicut ypocrite, tristes, etc.
B. n. A strengthening or reviving medicine, a cordial. Also fig.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xxxii. (1495) 247 Ayenst herte quakynge men shall yeue confortatyues. 1564P. Moore Hope Health ii. ix. 28 Borage..is a comfortatiue to the harte. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xix. 695 Confortatives alone without stimulaters..have not had the desired effect. 1742Jarvis Quix. ii. iv. vi. (D.), The two hundred crowns in gold..as a cordial and comfortative I carry next my heart. |
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