Cicuta

Word CICUTA
Character 6
Hyphenation ci cu ta
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The word "cicuta" in example sentences

The cicuta is a frequent plant on this river; we found the fox grape this afternoon nearly ripe. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)

Quaecunque regio producit simplicia, pro morbis regionis; crescit raro absynthium in Italia, quod ibi plerumque morbi calidi, sed cicuta, papaver, et herbae frigidae; apud nos Germanos et Polonos ubique provenit absynthium. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[3878] Socrates drank his portion of cicuta, he bid the citizens of Athens cheerfully farewell, and concluded his speech with this short sentence; My time is now come to be gone, I to my death, you to live on; but which of these is best, God alone knows. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Opium in Turkey doth scarce offend, with us in a small quantity it stupefies; cicuta or hemlock is a strong poison in Greece, but with us it hath no such violent effects: I conclude with I. Voschius, who as he much inveighs against those exotic medicines, so he promiseth by our ❋ Unknown (2007)

So did the inhabitants of the island of Choa, because their air was pure and good, and the people generally long lived, antevertebant fatum suum, priusquam manci forent, aut imbecillitas accederet, papavere vel cicuta, with poppy or hemlock they prevented death. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The bruised leaves have successfully resolved tumours of hard (scirrhous) cancer when cicuta, and mercury had failed. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

'Three cups,' he says, 'make the common quantity, so slightly impregnated that, perhaps, they might be tinged with the Athenian cicuta, and produce less effects than these letters charge upon tea.' ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

_ An Hemlok; _cicuta_, _harba benedicta_, _intubus_. ❋ Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1868)

Equal quantities of hemlock (or _cicuta_) and old cheese will poison them; but this renders the house liable to the inconvenience of a bad smell. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

The rose and nightshade, the hawthorn and cicuta fill the air around them with odors which our bodily senses instantly perceive. ❋ Unknown (1847)

Equal quantities of hemlock, (or _cicuta_,) and old cheese, will poison them, but this renders the house liable to the inconvenience of a bad smell. ❋ Catharine Esther Beecher (1839)

Some have supposed this disease to be produced by the cattle feeding on the _cicuta virosa_, or water hemlock; as a similar disease once infested the cattle in the north of ❋ John Mason Peck (1823)

Athenian cicuta, and produce less effects than these letters charge upon tea. ' ❋ James Boswell (1767)

* T. ie cicuta was alio of fervicr, by alloying inir. itijn and rough. ❋ Unknown (1796)

_cicuta_ (a shepherd's pipe made from a reed), because of its hollow stems. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

"The active principle of this cicuta is the volatile alkaloid canine, common also to the poison hemlock (Conium macula turn L.) ❋ Chester K. Steele (N/A)

Hence it would seem to be not the hemlock cicuta, nor the colocynth or wild gourd, nor lolium darnel, but the poppy so called from its heads "(Gesenius, Lex.). ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

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