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† ˈmummia Obs.
Forms: α. 5 momyan, momyn; β. 6–7 momia, mummia, mumma, 6–9 mumia.
[a. med.L. mumia, momia: cf. mummy.]
1. = mummy 1.
1486Bk. St. Albans C iij, Take momyan oderwise called momyn, among Poticaries. 1583Rates Custom Ho. D iij, Mumma the pound iiii d. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. 13 Their flesh so embaulmed is called Mumia. 1612Webster White Devil i. i, Your followers Haue swallowed you like Mummia. 1619E. Bert Hawks 106 If you will giue any thing else, let it be Mumma beaten into powder and so giuen with her meate. 1657Physical Dict., Mumia, a thing like pitch sold at the apothecaries; some affirm it's taken out of old tombs.
b. transf. and fig.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster ii. i, Looke here, my sweet wife; I am mum, my deare mummia, my balsamum, my spermacete. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. ii. 71 Consolidating..his Body of Errantry into a gumme and moving Mummia.
2. (See quot.)
1841Maunder Sci. & Lit. Treas., Mumia, in mineralogy, a sort of bitumen, or mineral pitch, which is soft and tough, like shoemaker's wax, when the weather is warm, but brittle, like pitch, in cold weather. It is found in Persia, where it is highly valued.
3. = mummy n.1 2 a.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Transplantation, Here the patient's excrement is the magnet, and the vital spirit of the plant arising from the seed is the mumia which the magnet receives.
Hence † ˈmummial a., of the nature of mummia.
1650Charleton Paradoxes Prol. 13 The incomparable Balsamicall or Mumiall Virtue of vitriol. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 68/1 A Kind of Mummial Balsam. |