Meaning of noli-me-tangere | Babel Free

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Désigne certaines plantes que le moindre attouchement flétrit, ou qui sont armées de fortes épines, ou dont les semences, s’élançant avec raideur quand on les touche, causent une sorte de surprise et une légère douleur.

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“After the ſame manner Ariſtolochia together with Cyperus, healeth the ſtinking and illfavored ulcer of the noſe, called Noli-me-tangere.”

“There was also Mr. Wormwood, the noli-me-tangere of literary lions—an author who sowed his conversation not with flowers but thorns.”

“Half of the other pictures are Magdalens, Flights into Egypt, Crucifixions, Depositions from the Cross, Pietas, Noli-me-tangeres, or the Sacrifice of Abraham, or martyrdoms of saints, originally painted as altar-pieces, or for the shrines of chapels, and wofully lacking the accompaniments which the artist had in view.”

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