| 释义 |
‖ stacte|ˈstæktiː|
Also 4–5 stacten, 7 stact, 8 stackten.
[L. stactē, a. Gr. στακτή fem. of στακτός distilling in drops, f. σταγ-, στάζειν to drop. The form stacten represents the accus., treated in med.L. as indeclinable. (So G. stacten.)]
a. A fragrant spice referred to by ancient writers; properly, the finest kind of myrrh, the exudation of the living tree (Pliny N.H. xii. xxxv), but the name was also applied to a mixture of storax with fat. In the Bible used (after LXX and Vulgate) as the translation of Heb. nāṭāph, one of the ingredients of the incense prescribed for the Tabernacle worship, variously conjectured to be opobalsamum, myrrh, storax, or tragacanth.
†b. Pharmacy. Formerly applied arbitrarily to liquidambar and perh. other preparations (the meaning in quot. 1715 is obscure).
1382Wyclif Exod. xxx. 34 Tak to thee swete smellynge thinges, stacten [1535 Coverdale stacte] and onycha, galbantum of good smel [etc.]. 1483Caxton Golden Leg., Joseph 51 b, And gyue ye & presente to that man yeftes, a lytyl reysyns & hony, Storax, scacten [read stacten], there⁓binthe & dates. 1600B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. iv, Stacte, opobalsamum, amomum, storax. 1631Widdowes Nat. Philos. 33 The distilled liquor of fresh Myrrh was once called Stact, but now it is named Storax. 1715Lady G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 98 For stacktens drops 2s. 1844Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. (ed. 2), Stacte,..Also, a more liquid kind of amber than is generally met with in the shops. 1887Bentley Man. Bot. 506 The Stacte or Liquid Myrrh of the ancients. |