oxymelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɒksɪmɛl/

名詞

oxymel (複数形 oxymels)

1. (historical, medicine) A mixture of honey, water, and vinegar, boiled to a syrup, sometimes mixed with herbs or spices.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 5, member 3, subsection i:

     If it long continue, vomits may be taken after meat, or otherwise gently procured with warm water, oxymel, etc., now and then.