Jesuit's bark

American  

noun

1. cinchona.

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Etymology

Origin of Jesuit's bark

First recorded in 1685–95; introduced into Europe from the Jesuit missions in South America

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Jesuit's bark

I had two surgeons to attend me at Corte, a Corsican and a Piedmontese; and I got a little Jesuit's bark from the spiceria, or apothecary's shop, of the Capuchin convent.

From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by George Birkbeck Norman Hill

Hence, also, it was often called Jesuit’s bark, and cardinal’s bark.”

From On the Banks of the Amazon by William H. C. Groome

Overcome by this evidence I bestow on the good fathers a double portion of gratitude, for they imported the Quinquina yet known as "Jesuit's bark."

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson

The yellow bark of the barberry contains an essential tonic ingredient, as the Jesuit's bark does quinine, or that of the willow salicine.

From Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Afterwards the Jesuits used it; hence it is sometimes called Jesuit's bark.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders

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