Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of coleopterous insects having the head separated from the thorax by a neck; the type of the family Cantharidæ.
- noun [lowercase; pl. cantharides (kan-thar′ i-dēz).] A member of the genus Cantharis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A beetle (
Lytta vesicatoria , syn.Cantharis vesicatoria ), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also calledSpanish fly . Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, underblister . The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.
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- noun Singular form of
cantharides .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Adeo immoderate et immodeste ab ipsis bibitur, ut in compotationibus suis non cyathis solum et cantharis sat infundere possint, sed impletum mulctrale apponant, et scutella injecta hortantur quemlibet ad libitum potare.
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A bottle of cantharis can be had at any good Vitamin store, e.g., Vitamin Cottage, for about $7.
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Since I had no cantharis with me at the church, I had to wait until I finished the supper and drove home.
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“Vile potabis modicis sabinum cantharis — — Et praelo domitam caleno tu bibes uvam.”
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They all copulate in the manner above described, the fly, the cantharis, the sphondyle, (the phalangium spider) any others of the kind that copulate at all.
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This phenomenon may be witnessed if any one will pull asunder flies that are copulating; and, by the way, these creatures are, under the circumstances, averse to separation; for the intercourse of the sexes in their case is of long duration, as may be observed with common everyday insects, such as the fly and the cantharis.
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The cantharis comes from the caterpillars that are found on fig-trees or pear-trees or fir-trees — for on all these grubs are engendered-and also from caterpillars found on the dog-rose; and the cantharis takes eagerly to ill-scented substances, from the fact of its having been engendered in ill-scented woods.
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The cantharis is said to have in itself the antidote to its own sting, but wickedness, creating its own pain and torment, pays the penalty of its misdeeds not afterwards but at the time of its ill-doing.
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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Mr. Townsend Glover, in a valuable paper illustrated with wood cuts in Patent Office Reports, 1854, page 59, states that he found a species of cantharis, C. strigosa, in large numbers on the cotton plants near Columbia, S. C., in the month of September.
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6 After you've stopped dancing around the room and screaming obscenitites, take four tablets of cantharis of the 'miracle dilution' you've purchase.
bilby commented on the word cantharis
Do we not have a list of aphrodisiacs?
January 22, 2016