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1563, João de Barros, chapter II, in Terceira decada da Aſia, volume 5, Lisbon, page 124:
E querẽdo Eitor Anrriquez de Santarem como hómem de animo poer a lança na tȩſta de hum Elefaute, de dous que ali andauam pelejando: deſuiou o Elefante a lãça com a tromba, & apanhou ò com ella per antre as pȩrnas & lançou o pera o ár como ſe fora hũa laranja, & quis lhe Deos bem que jndo armado cayo em lugar & de maneira que o nã matou.
1707, Joam Curvo Semmedo, “Obſervaçam XLIII”, in Obſervações Medicas Doutrinaes, Lisbon: Antonio Pedrozo Galram, page 271:
[…]vim em conhecimento que o veneno, que o eſcravo tinha tomado, era ſolimaõ, & por iſſo lhe dei, primeiro que tudo, um vomitorio de dez onças de agua de flor de laranja, & logo quatro onças de oleo da ſemente dos nabos, & huma oitava de cristal bem preparado, miſturado tudo com outra oitava do meu Bezoartico Cordeal[…]
I came to know that the poison, that the slave had drunk, was sulema and therefore I gave him, first of all, a vomitory of ten ounces of orange flowers, and four ounces of turnip seed oil right after, and one oitava of well-prepared crystal, mixing everything with another oitava of my Bezoartico Cordeal.
(colloquial,Brazil) a front man (one who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit, especially in political schemes), a straw man