oxymel
nounUK /ˈɒksɪmɛl/
Etymology From Middle English oximel, from Late Latin oxymel, oxymeli (“acid and honey”), from Ancient Greek ὀξύμελι (oxúmeli).
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Medicine, Sciences Historical A mixture of honey, water, and vinegar, boiled to a syrup, sometimes mixed with herbs or spices.
- If it long continue, vomits may be taken after meat, or otherwise gently procured with warm water, oxymel, etc., now and then.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 3, subsection i: