英和和英

名詞

turning evil (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Sturdy; gid; turnsick.
   • 1680, Nicholas Culpeper, The Engliſh-Phyſicians dayly Practiſe. Or, Culpeper's Faithful Physitian. Teaching every Man and Woman to be their own Doctor,  […] J. Conyers, page 8:

     A rare Medicine for the Scab or Itch. 2. All Maggots whatever. 3 The worms in the Claw. 4. All wild fire. 5. the turning evil, ſheep tagged 6. Sheep belted. 7. the ſturdy in ſheep.

   • 1664 [1663], Robert Boyle, chapter XII, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefvlnesse of Experimental Naturall Philoſophy, […] , 2nd edition, Oxford, page 233:

     When Oxen, and ſuch like Cattle, are troubled with that Diſeaſe which makes them continually turn about in one place (and is therefore called the Turning Evil, or Sturdy) a common Remedy here in England, as Graſiers that make uſe of it inform me, is to caſt down and tye faſt the ſick Beaſt, […]

   • 1683, “Turning Evil, Morfound”, in A Treatise of Oxen, Sheep, Hogs and Dogs; With their Natures, Qualities, and Uſes, London:  […] Obadiah Blagrave, page 28:

     Let him bloud in the Eye-veins, Temple-veins, or through the Noſtrils, and rub the places with young Nettles bruiſed ; or give a ſpoonful of Treacle or Mithridate in Wine, good for the Morfound.

   • 1698, A. S., “For the turning Evil and Morfound”, in The Husbandman, Farmer, and Grasier's, Compleat Inſtructor, London, page 70:

     Bleed pretty well in the Temple-Veins, or through the Noſtrils,and rub the place with the Juyce of young, Nettles, and halt a pint of White-wine, give an Ounce of Methridate as hot as can conveniently be taken.