单词 | albation |
释义 | albationn.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > dusting > [noun] albation1617 dusting1721 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 338 Albation is the abstraction of dust moths, gret, adhering to a thing with an hares foot, feather, spather, knife, or the like. 1662 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words (ed. 2) Albation, a Chymical Term; and signifies, the taking away of dust or moths cleaving to any thing, with a Hare's foot, or the like. 2. The process of becoming white; (Alchemy) = albification n. rare. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > to make white albificationc1405 albationa1692 the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [noun] whitening1576 blanching1600 albationa1692 a1692 MS Ashmole 1399 i. f. 41 To purge ♀ to receive albation... Do this often and they will be purg'd to receive your medicine for albation. 1855 C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol., Dental Surg., & Collateral Sci. (ed. 2) 33/2 Albation, the act of becoming white. 1879 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Albation, a Spagiric term in reference to the transmutation of metals, particularly of copper into silver; meaning the blanching or whitening of metals. 1924 A. E. Waite Brotherhood of Rosy Cross xvi. 450 The circles were respectively coloured black, white, yellow, and red by allusion to the successive states and stages which appear in the Philosophical Work, being (1) Putrefaction; (2) Albation; (3) Gradation; (4) Rubification. 2003 Shakespeare Stud. 31 143 ‘Blanch’ was employed for whitening in its multiple senses, including the counterpart in alchemy to ‘albification’ (or ‘albation’). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1617 |
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