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A medicament is a substance used to treat a disease — a medicine, a cream, a pill, a drug. The idea is ordinary; the word is not. You meet it in older books, in careful pharmacy or legal writing, and in some formal European English. At the kitchen table, people say medicine, medication, or just 'the pills.' Calling a packet of a medicament is not wrong, but it sounds stiff, as if you had put on a coat to walk across the room. It comes from Latin medicāmentum, a healing substance. Though actually, in some official lists and old prescriptions it is the normal word, so if you are reading that kind of text you should not be surprised. It does not mean a medical tool or a doctor; it means the stuff you take or put on.
藥劑（書面、正式；日常說 medicine / 藥）
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
medicamentnoun/ˈmɛdɪkəmənt/
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A medicine, medication or drug.
- 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, Book I, Chapter 23, “The forme of Poeticall lamentations,” Therefore of death and burials, of th’aduersities by warres, and of true loue lost or ill bestowed, are th’onely sorrowes that the noble Poets sought by their arte to remoue or appease, not with any medicament of a contrary temper, as the Galenistes vse to cure [contraria contrarijs] but as the Paracelsians, who cure [similia similibus] making one dolour to expell another, and in this case, one short sorrowing the remedie of a long and grieuous sorrow.
- Forasmuch as the soul is far more precious than the body, we do prohibit under the pain of anathema, that no physician for the health of the body, shall prescribe to a sick person any thing which may prove perilous to the soul. But when it happens that he is called to a sick person, he shall first of all effectually persuade them to send for the physicians of the soul; that after the sick person hath taken care for his spiritual medicament, he may with better effect proceed to the cure of his body.
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