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单词 ceration
释义 ceration Obs.
[ad. med.L. cērātion-em in F. cération, noun of action f. L. cērāre to smear with wax, to wax.]
‘Alchemical term for the action of covering anything with wax, or of softening a hard substance..not capable of being liquefied; also, the fixation of mercury’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. v, Name the vexations, and the martyrizations of mettalls in the worke..Putrefaction, Solution, Ablution..Calcination, Ceration, and Fixation.1678R. R[ussell] Geber ii. i. 4. xviii. 139 Ceration is the mollification of an hard Thing not fusible unto Liquefaction.1721–1800Bailey, Ceration, among Chymists, the making of a Substance fit to be dissolved, or melted.1727–51Chambers Cycl., Ceration, in chymistry, the operation of waxing.
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