Crossword clues for nepenthe
nepenthe
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nepenthe \Ne*pen"the\, n. [Fr. Gr. ? removing all sorrow; hence, an epithet of an Egyptian drug which lulled sorrow for the day; ? not + ? sorrow, grief.] A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting.
Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court.
--Pope.
Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe.
--Poe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, nepenthes, from Greek nepenthes, from ne- "no, not" (see un-) + penthos "pain, grief," from PIE *kwent(h)- "to suffer" (see pathos). A drug of Egypt mentioned in the "Odyssey" as capable of banishing grief or trouble from the mind. The -s is a proper part of the word, but likely was mistaken in English as a plural affix and dropped.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow; nepenthes. (from 16th c.)
Wikipedia
Nepenthe is a medicine for sorrow, literally an anti-depressant – a "drug of forgetfulness" mentioned in ancient Greek literature and Greek mythology, depicted as originating in Egypt.
The carnivorous plant genus Nepenthes is named after the drug nepenthe.
Nepenthe may refer to:
- Nepenthe, a drug of forgetfulness mentioned in Greek mythology
- USS Nepenthe (SP-112), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission in 1917
- Nepenthes, a tropical carnivorous plant genus
- Nepenthe (album), the 2013 album by Julianna Barwick
- Nepenthe, the name of a fictional Mediterranean island, the setting of South Wind by Norman Douglas.
- Nepenthe, a 1995 song by the band Sentenced from the album Amok
- Nepenthe, a popular restaurant in Big Sur, California that features in the film The Sandpiper
Nepenthe is the second studio album from American singer-songwriter Julianna Barwick. It was released in August 2013, under Dead Oceans Records.
Usage examples of "nepenthe".
Let the haughty, purse-proud American--in whose warm life current one may trace the unmistakable strains of bichloride of gold and trichinae--pause for one moment to gaze at the coarse features and bloodshot eyes of his ancestors, who sat up at nights drenching their souls in a style of nepenthe that it is said would remove moths, tan, freckles, and political disabilities.
It was not the trees and lianas only that were beautiful in these sunny openings, but the ferns, mosses, orchids, and selaginellas, with the crimson-tipped dracaena, and the crimson-veined caladium, and the great red nepenthe with purple blotches on its nearly diaphanous pitchers, and another pitcher-plant of an epiphytal habit, with pea-green pitchers scrambling to a great height over the branches of the smaller trees.
Lamps that were milky opals self-effulgent filled all the chamber with a soft radiance, in which the bas-reliefs of the high dado, delicately carved, portraying those immortal blooms of amaranth and nepenthe and moly and Elysian asphodel, were seen in all their delicate beauty, and the fair painted pictures of the Lord of Krothering and his lady sister, and of Lord Juss above the great open fireplace with Goldry and Spitfire on his left and right.
Hooker has recently shown, Nepenthes, could all have acquired the power of secreting a fluid which dissolves or digests animal matter.
Pinguicula or Nepenthes, for these plants are not at all closely related to the Droceraceae.
Hooker, Nepenthes, and to this class other species will almost certainly soon be added.
Borne the high pangs that all high souls must bear, Nor fled to low nepenthes for your pain!
It was not the trees and lianas only that were beautiful in these sunny openings, but the ferns, mosses, orchids, and selaginellas, with the crimson-tipped dracaena, and the crimson-veined caladium, and the great red nepenthe with purple blotches on its nearly diaphanous pitchers, and another pitcher-plant of an epiphytal habit, with pea-green pitchers scrambling to a great height over the branches of the smaller trees.
Nepenthe is a drinck of souerayne grace,Deuized by the Gods, for to asswageHarts grief, and bitter gall away to chace,Which stirs vp anguish and contentious rage:In stead thereof sweet peace and quiet ageIt doth establish in the troubled mynd.
The blond woman from Nepenthe was naked, and curled sideways on an antique brass bed.
With her fluid drawn-out lines, the spearlike sprit jutting from the thrusting clipper bow, and her flaring transom, the two-hundred-foot-long Nepenthe looked as if she were made of fine white china floating on a Delft sea.
As we watched the tenderloin habitues come and go, I came soon to recognize the signs by the mere look on the face—the pasty skin, the vacant eye, the nervous quiver of the muscles as though every organ and every nerve were crying out for more of the favorite nepenthe.
Ferguson, a chilly-faced man of about fifty who had been convicted of some vast and preposterous real-estate swindle before being sent to Nepenthe Center, began telling her about a trip to Mendocino that he wanted to take this weekend to meet a woman who'd be podding up from San Francisco to see him, but Elszabet listened with only half an ear.