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Dear etaoin: A big bowl of Maypo will cure you.
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And, for completeness, this kind of "capo" is pronounced "KAY-poe."
And for safety, a "capote".
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In reply to:
excipient, noun.
1. any inert drug substance used as
a medium or carrier for an active drug.
2. one that takes up or receives.
wwh, it's the second definition that is intriguing. And it's the one that I can't find reference to in any online dictionary.
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[ad. L. excipient-em, pr. pple. of excipere to take out, except, take up, receive, f. ex- out + capere to take.]
A. adj. That takes exception; objecting.
1726 Ayliffe Parerg. 252 The persons pronouncing it [Excommunication], ought to be set forth in the Pleading by the Party Excipient within eight Days.
B. n.
1. One who takes up or receives in succession. rare.
1852 Tait's Mag. XIX. 605 That excipient of avuncular traditions first quotes from the reply made by Napoleon.
2. a term used to express that ingredient in a compound medicine, the business of which is to receive all the rest.
3. The material or surface that receives the pigments in painting.
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avuncular traditions? Napoleon??
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It doesn't say who the excipient is, but Louis Napoleon, President of France,who staged a coup to become the Emperor Napoleon III because the constitution did not allow him a second term as President, was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Bastinado as a form of torture has always left me wondering as to the point of it. Obviously it would be very painful and ultimately crippling, but so would many other things. Was this used when there was a need for the torture not to be visible to a casual observer? It could be covered up easily.
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I have read of N.Y. police applying nightstick to soles of bums failing
to awake and leave park benches before the tax paying patrons arrived.
Even the most painful deterrents often fail to achieve their objective.
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They had soles on their bums? More details of what surely must be a medical rarity from our doctors please.
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