orvietan

See also: Orvietan

English

Etymology

From French orviétan. Compare Italian orvietano. So called because invented at Orvieto (“a place name in Italy”).

Noun

orvietan (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of antidote for poisons.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for orvietan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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