clysterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈklɪstə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈklɪstɚ/
• 韻: -ɪstə(ɹ)

名詞

clyster (plural clysters)

1. (now rare) A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , vol.I, New York 2001, p.233-4:

     Cnelius a physician being sent for, found his costiveness alone to be the cause, and thereupon gave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered.

名詞

clyster n

1. cluster

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生した語

• English: cluster

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “clyster”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.