单词 | fire of hell |
释义 | > as lemmasfire of Hell d. Alchemy. fire of Hell: alkahest, a hypothetical universal solvent; = alkahest n. 1 (cf. firewater n. 1). Now historical. [Apparently after post-classical Latin ignis gehennae (J.B. van Helmont a1644), specific use of ignis gehennae , variant of gehenna ignis the fire which rages in hell (see hell-fire n.).] ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > [noun] > universal solvent fireOE philosophers' vinegar1612 alkahest1651 fire of Hell1658 firewater1664 philosophical vinegar1694 1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 241 The sweet oyl..by cohobation with the fire of Hell (that is, the Alchahest) becomes volatile. 1839 K. Grant Hooper's Lexicon Medicum (ed. 7) 756/2 Ignis gehannæ, the fire of hell. The universal solvent was so called by the alchemists. 1994 W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire v. 181 Starkey's work on the alchahest..reflects the fullness of his debt to Van Helmont. The Belgian alchemist had called his mysterious solvent ignis gehennae, the fire of Hell, in reference to its ability to purge all substances of their superfluity by reducing them to their primum ens. < as lemmas |
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