ETYMOLOGY
from late Latin amaricat- ppl. stem of amaricare (to make bitter, to irrritate, to anger),
from amarus (bitter) + -icare
EXAMPLE
“…But what vertue so cold I pray you is there in Opium, which shall make me sleep though unwilling, and hot enough? If the coldnesse of the vapours, why do wines after dinner provoke to sleep? whether therefore is there one identity of heat and cold to the procuring of sleep? why therefore is cold singularly attributed to Opium? why are not hot things equally reckon’d narcotick and dormitive? how doth opium amaricate? and amaritude in the schools predominating is accounted hot? Therefore it is of unavoidable necessity, that the schools should chuse one of these; to wit, either that the coldnesse of opium is not exceeding, and by consequence that Opium doth not produce sleep by his cold…”
From: Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeōs, The vanity of the craft of physick
By Noah Biggs, 1651
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