单词 | metalleity |
释义 | † metalleityn. Obsolete. The quality of being metallic; metallic properties collectively. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > [noun] > quality of being metalleity1755 metallity?1819 metallicity1831 1755 Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 859 The most perfect metallic bodies, which loose their metalleity, as Becher calls it, as malleability, and other metallic properties. 1808 J. Wolcot Loutherbourg in One more Peep at Royal Acad. 14 The Poet..findeth fault with Mr. Loutherbourg for his volcanic landscapes..and endeavoureth to beat him out of his Belief in the Metalleity of general Nature. a1839 S. T. Coleridge & J. Gillman Hints towards Theory of Life (1848) 69 The metalleity, as the universal base of the planet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1755 |
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