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单词 mineral virtue
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mineral virtue
2. Alchemy. Designating or possessing a property supposedly inherent in certain inorganic substances, by which it was thought that they might develop through stages of increasing refinement into metals; esp. in mineral virtue. Cf. minera n. Obsolete.In quot. c1450 referring to a variety of the philosophers' stone: see mineral n. 1.
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mineral virtuec1450
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mineral1581
miny1611
mineralic1744
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) 531 (MED) It cordith wel to serche Out scrypture, Misteryes hyd..of stoonys, Specially of three—Oon myneral, Anothir vegetatyff..Ther was Oon was Callyd Anymal.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 394 For cause efficient of metals fynd ye shalle Only the vertu Mineralle, which in euery erth is not fownde.
1580 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Short Disc. Chirurg. Miiv This is the stone that the Philosophers have so long sought to fixe their medicine mynerall.
1581 in Trans. Jewish Hist. Soc. Eng. (1903) 4 98 The vth corruption [of copper ore] is Calcator, beinge the mother or corpus of vitriall, and a mynerall substance.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum 478 The ground is glassie and bright, & by minerall vertue turneth into stone.
1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 22 By an example which we shall bring from the animal seed, it will appear, in what manner the mineral virtue operates in stones.
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