单词 | mineral water |
释义 | mineral watern. Water occurring in nature containing some dissolved mineral salts, often used therapeutically or as drinking water; a variety of such water, esp. as bottled commercially. Also: an artificial, esp. effervescent imitation of the natural product; (formerly) any effervescent non-alcoholic drink, such as lemonade or ginger beer.Cf. mineral n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > water > [noun] > mineral water mineral water?a1425 mineral1785 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > mineral water mineral water?a1425 the world > food and drink > drink > aerated or carbonated drink > [noun] mineral water1829 bellywash1874 potash1876 potass1883 fizzy1896 bubble water1947 skoosh1959 carbonate1982 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 33 After Arnolde vse of minerale waters [L. aquarum mineralium], most of tartarie sapour, noȝt only availeþ for to attenue or make þyn inward bocia bot also vtward. 1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 9, in 2nd Pt. Herball Thys minorall water is cleare..and springeth out of sande. 1631 E. Jorden (title) A discovrse of natvrall bathes, and minerall waters. Wherein first the originall of fountaines in general is declared. 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. x. 667/2 To be drank at several draughts, as you drink Mineral waters, for the cutting and loosening of gross Humors. 1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 340 The purgative mineral waters, as those of Val, &c. prove the most universal remedy. 1777 J. J. de Magalhães (title) Description of a glass apparatus for making mineral waters... Together with the description of some new eudiometers. a1827 W. Hickey Mem. (1960) xii. 201 Davies's mineral water warehouse..was only three doors from my father's. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica v. 108 We give the name Mineral Waters to such as contain in solution one or more foreign substances, in a sufficient quantity to exercise a more or less marked action on the animal economy. These waters are either natural or artificial. 1857 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 20 397 For a quarter of a century the Spa of the old wells [at Cheltenham] was a singularly prosperous undertaking, it being supposed that the mineral water had but one source. 1865 R. H. Kellogg Life & Death in Rebel Prisons 293 A saltish kind of mineral water..was said to have been obtained from an Artesian well. 1917 ‘Taffrail’ Sub ii. 72 Cream, jam, mineral waters and all other sorts of ‘stodge’. 1934 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 3 124/1 Factories were set up for the manufacture of sugar, cotton cloth, soap, and mineral waters. 1965 J. A. Michener Source (1967) 443 In those bubbling mineral waters that welled up from some deep volcanic disturbance he would lie and try to forget the dilemma in which Caesar Caligula had placed him. 1994 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. 31/4 The more expensive brands tend to be pukka natural mineral waters..which must be bottled at a protected source. Other types are often called spring water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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