单词 | limbeck |
释义 | limbeckn. archaic. a. = alembic n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > retorts or stills limbeckc1350 cucurbitc1386 alembicc1405 serpentaryc1450 pelican1527 retort1527 gourd1582 cucurbittel1605 horse-belly1660 long neck1660 philosophical egg1660 infuser1688 chapel1694 rencounter1694 c1350 Med. MS. in Archaeologia 30 409 Lambyke. a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 11 Putte it in a lembike, and distille it at a good fier. 1529 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 277 A lymbeke for stilling of watters. a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii. xxxi, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii2 The dull drops that from his purpled bill As from a limbeck did adown distill. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 605 They..call up..old Proteus from the Sea, Draind through a Limbec to his Native forme. View more context for this quotation 1668 J. Dryden Secret-love i. iii. 11 I feel my strength insensibly consume, Like Lillies wasting in a Lymbecks heat. 1713 A. Pope in Guardian 26 June 1/2 Like a Limbeck that gives you, Drop by Drop, an Extract of the Simples in it. 1829 T. Carlyle German Playwrights in Foreign Rev. Jan. 103 Let the distiller pass it and repass it through his limbecks. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1593 T. Lodge Phillis (1875) 54 My loue doth serue for fire, my hart the fornace is, The aperries of my sighes augment the burning flame, The Limbique is mine eye that doth distill the same. 1598 R. Tofte To Gentlewoman in Alba sig. A2 What my sad eye Distils from Lymbeck of a bleeding Hart. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 67. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. 490 The remaining part [of the books of the Fathers] have passed through the limbecs and strainers of Hereticks. 1841 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iv, in New Monthly Mag. 61 267 The waters that down her visage rill'd Were drops of unrectified spirit distill'd From the limbeck of Pride and Vanity. 1887 Athenæum 20 Aug. 243/2 There are [in the translation] French forms of expression..which ought to have been passed through the limbeck. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † limbeckv. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To treat as in an alembic; to subject to the process of distillation or extraction of essence, etc. Chiefly figurative; esp. to rack or fatigue (the brain) in the effort to extract ideas. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > think or have in mind [verb (transitive)] > rack limbeck1599 the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to distillation > as in an alembic limbeck1599 alembic1635 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 162 Where the greater doe nothing but limbicke their braines in the Arts of Alchymy and Ballancing. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 50 Wasting my wits, and Limbeking my braines, without drawing any iuice or substance thence at all. 1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems sig. S His Patients grow impatient, and the fear Of death, lymbeck'd their bodies into tears. 1661 O. Felltham Upon Eccles. ii. 11 in Resolves (rev. ed.) 376 And when he had try'd and Lymbeck'd all, the spirit and Extract comes forth, Vanity, Vexation. 2. To distil or extract (an essence, etc.) as by an alembic. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > undergo chemical reactions or processes [verb] > undergo chemical reactions or processes (named) > subject to distillation distil1398 limbeck1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Lambicare, to distill, to limbecke. 1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 139 The spring~head, where Crystall is Lymbeckt all the yeere. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ Diat. iii. 140 The quintessence to be limbeck'd and distilled [etc.]. Derivatives ˈlimbecked adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > of or relating to distillation > as by an alembic limbeckeda1618 a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 233 The stench and Stuff Extracted from their limbeckt Lips and Nose. ˈlimbecking n. ΚΠ 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 17 Metaphysicall Limberkings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1350v.1598 |
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