collyrium
Americannoun
plural
collyria, collyriumsnoun
Etymology
Origin of collyrium
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek kollȳ́rion eye salve
Vocabulary lists containing collyrium
Example Sentences
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For it St. Francis' physicians applied eye bindings, salves, plasters and urina virginis pueri, the sovereign eye wash which later became the favorite collyrium of that great medieval Spanish ophthalmologist who became Pope John XXI.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paulinus of Nola, always beflowered and elegant, wrote to Augustin: "Your letters are a luminous collyrium spread over the eyes of my mind."
From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent
Her eyes were large and peculiarly black, and fringed by long lashes, which, aided by the collyrium with which they were tinged, formed a sort of ambuscade, from which she levelled her shafts.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by Morier, James
On one of these seals we find the word aromaticu, from aromaticum; on another, melinu, abbreviation of melinum,—a collyrium prepared with the alum of the island of Melos.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Well; do not open my eyes with pincers, nor compose for them a collyrium of spurge.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
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