supernaculum

名词 n. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˌs(j)uː.pəˈnæ.kjə.ləm/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Excellent wine that one would wish to drink to the last drop. obsolete,uncountable
    — I've placed another flaggon on the table. Your worship knows it— number thirty-five:— the supernaculum.
副词 adv.
  1. According to the rules of an old drinking game in which the drinker upturned the empty cup and had to drink more if the remaining droplets spilled beyond the edge of his fingernail. not-comparable,obsolete
  2. To the last drop, to the bottom. not-comparable
    — A dream put Aristotle out of breath, / A meteor he said, ’twixt life and death. “An quid fit frustra? An datur vacuum? Fill the pot, Edy! Supernaculum.” A blazing star’s a rare spectaculum!

词源

词源 1
Pseudo-Latinism from super- + naculum, nagulum, Latinized form of German Nagel, intended to mean “upon the nail”, after the German phrase auf den Nagel (trinken).
词源 2
Pseudo-Latinism from super- + naculum, nagulum, Latinized form of German Nagel, intended to mean “upon the nail”, after the German phrase auf den Nagel (trinken).
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