单词 | empyreuma |
释义 | empyreuman. 1. A burnt quality imparted to something by heating, spec. an odour or taste of charred organic matter; volatile or oily compounds responsible for this. Also: an organic residue left after distillation. Also in extended use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [noun] > empyreuma empyreuma1576 empyreumatism1669 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health i. f. 37v For in that fashion of dystilling, which is wrought and done by force of the fire agent (saith Ioannes Langius) although that the matters which are naturally colde, as the Nightshade..yet those purchase or conceyue an Empyreuma, that is, a heate and dryth accidentall, lyke to thynges burned. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xix. viii. 729 Boyle it in balneo, to avoyd empyreuma, or taste of fire, which it will contract by boyling it over a hot fire. 1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 188 If the cassia be drawn low it is very subject to an empyreuma. 1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) I. 195 Our victuals..are adulterated with salt, spice, oil, and empyreuma. 1858 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley II. 423 A disgusting taste..gravely pronounced to be only an empyreuma. 1911 Jrnl. Industr. & Engin. Chem. 3 396/1 When another portion of 5 cc. is allowed to evaporate on a 9 cm. filter paper contained in a porcelain dish, there should be perceptible no foreign odor (amyl compounds, empyreumata, pungent matters, etc.) as the last portions disappear from the paper. 1937 H. Leyel Herbal Delights 314 Dill water. Dill seed, bruised, 1 pound; water sufficient to prevent an empyreuma. Draw off 1 gallon. 1984 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. No. 2. 258 We recall, even with affection now that the time has passed, the empyreuma of his home-grown tobacco which clung to Council room. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [noun] > high temperature heatc1000 fever heata1398 empyreuma1634 empyreum1651 hyperthermia1886 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xii. viii. 449 Whence proceedes the variety of medicines for burnes. For some take away the Empyreuma [L. empyreuma], that is, the heate of the fire (as we terme it) and asswage the paine. 1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. vi. 20 That outward heat doth draw unto it Empyruma, that is, heat left by the fire in the burned part. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 66 The Empyreuma, or Atoms of the fire must first be called forth. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Empyremata [sic], little feverish Remains after a Crisis. Also that thick viscous Matter which settles at the Bottom of Distilled Water. 1797 E. Kentish Ess. Burns ii. 46 The antients thought that in order to cure burns, it was only necessary to extract the empyreuma fixed in the burnt part. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1576 |
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