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‖ hydrargyrum|haɪˈdrɑːdʒɪrəm|
Formerly also hydrargyre (-gire, -girie).
[mod.L. hydrargyrum, altered (on the analogy of other names of metals, as aurum, argentum) from L. hydrargyrus, a. Gr. ὑδράργυρος artificial quicksilver, f. ὑδρ- (hydro-) + ἄργυρος silver. Hydrargyre was from Fr.]
Quicksilver, mercury. (The name in medical and chemical Latin, whence the symbol Hg.)
1563T. Gale Treat. Gonneshot 9 b (Stanf. s.v. Guiacan), Vnguentes receyuing into there composition Hydrargyron. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hydrargyrum, quick-silver. 1861–2Thackeray Philip (1887) I. ii. 26 He will prescribe taraxacum for you, or pil: hydrarg:.
β1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 157 b, That they will get greater riches in Hydrargirie, then nature geueth in golde. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iii. Furies 67 The Steel and Load-stone, Hydrargire and Gold. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Hydrargyre, a Name which the Chymists give to Mercury.
Hence hyˈdrargyral, hyˈdrargyrate, hydrarˈgyric, hyˈdrargyrous adjs., of or relating to quicksilver, mercurial. ‖ hydrarˈgyria, ‖ hydrargyˈriasis, hyˈdrargyrism (erron. hydrargysm), ‖ hydrargyˈrosis, a morbid condition caused by the introduction of mercury into the system, mercurial poisoning (see also quot. 1753).
1664Power Exp. Philos. 96 *Hydrargyral emanations. Ibid. 107 Our Hydrargyral Experiments.
1864Webster, *Hydrargyrate.
1810Sir G. Alley (title) Observations on the *Hydrargyria, or that Vesicular Disease arising from the Exhibition of Mercury. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 389 The altered blood of chronic hydrargyria.
1854Mayne Expos. Lex., *Hydrargyriasis.
Ibid., *Hydrargyric.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., *Hydrargyrosis, a term used by the chirurgical writers to express the anointing the body with a mercurial unction, in order to the raising a salivation.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 90 Containing also a salt, and *hydrargyrus mixtion. |