Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The colocynth or bitter apple. See
colocynth .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
colocynth .
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- noun obsolete
colocynth
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Examples
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“Hanzal” = coloquintida, an article often mentioned by
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These Moors are changeable in their wills: fill thy purse with money: — the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
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The ground was covered with the coloquintida, a plant very common in every part of this desert.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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-- Having prepared the gum water for the colours, add a little coloquintida.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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An infusion of coloquintida, in the proportion of 15-1/2 grains Troy to a quart of water, is said to be a good preservative against moths.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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QUOTATION: The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
Quotations 1919
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These Moors are changeable in their wills; fill thy purse with money: the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
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It was chance, acting through the impulses of the War Office, which caused little Laurence to see the light on Irish soil; but though he was born in the melodiously named Valley of Honey, there was little of honeyed sweetness, and much bitterness as of gall and coloquintida, in his early boyhood.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871
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The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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God put in a little coloquintida, which spoiled the whole mess.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
chained_bear commented on the word coloquintida
The colocynth. OED sez:
"The Bitter-apple (Citrullus Colocynthis), a widely-cultivated plant of the Gourd family, the fruit of which is about the size of an orange, and contains a light spongy and extremely bitter pulp, furnishing the well-known purgative drug. Also the fruit of this plant, and the drug prepared from it."
April 10, 2008