mummian.

Brit.

/ˈmʊmɪə/,

/ˈmʌmɪə/, U.S.

/ˈmumiə/,

/ˈməmiə/

Forms:

α. late Middle English–1600s 1900s– mummia, 1500s–1600s 1900s– momia, 1500s–1600s 1900s– mumma, 1500s– mumia, 1600s munna (transmission error).

β. late Middle English momyan̄ (rare), late Middle English momyn̄ (rare).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mummia.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin mumia, mummia mummy n.¹ The β. forms (see quot. 1486 at sense 1a) are unexplained.

Now historical.

a. = mummy n.¹ 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > gums and viscid products > [noun]

guma1382

mucilagea1400

mummya1400

mummia?a1425

emulsion1612

mucage1657

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 178^v (MED) Mummia [?c1425 Paris Mummye; L. mummia] is flesh of dede men balsamate.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. ciij Take momyan̄ oderwise called momyn̄, among Poticaries.

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 273 Mirrh elect, Aloes Hepaticæ, Spieænardi, Sanguis Draconis, Frankensence, Mumiæ, Opopanax, [etc.].

1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Diij Mumma the pound iiii.d.

1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 13 in Jewell House Their flesh so embaulmed is called Mumia.

1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. iv. sig. K Sell him for Mummia, hee's halfe dust already.

1612 J. Webster White Divel i. i Your followers Haue swallowed you like Mummia.

1619 E. Bert Approved Treat. Hawkes 106 If you will giue any thing else, let it be Mumma beaten into powder and so giuen with her meate.

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 935 Our Author..Observes that Mumia is of four sorts; all which he doth demonstrate.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure of Franchard iv, in Longman's Mag. 1 686 All forenoon, he worked on his great book, ‘Comparative Pharmacopœia’... The article ‘Mummia’..was already complete.

1911 R. Brooke in New Age 16 Nov. 59/1 As those of old drank mummia To fire their limbs of lead, Making dead kings from Africa Stand pandar to their bed.

1974 L. Durrell Monsieur ii. 122 ‘Now let us partake of the holy mummia,’ he said..and the dervishes advanced towards us humbly bearing large silver trays on which were a number of small bowls with pieces of mummia—or at least I presumed it was mummia.

1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 119 I myself effect sympathetic recures by a withdrawal of blood to attract mumia.

†b. In extended use. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster ii. i. sig. C2 Looke here, my sweete Wife; I am Mum, my deare Mumma, my Balsamum, my Sperma Cete .

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ii. 71 Consolidating..his Body of Errantry into a gumme and moving Mummia.

†2. Alchemy. A vital principle (after Paracelsus' use: cf. mummy n.¹ 2b). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > supremely effective medicine

treacle?1543

magisterium1585

magistery1594

mummy1605

elixir1632

mummia1652

1652 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Of Christs Test. 53 He gave them the spirituall humanity, viz: the power and vertue of his body and bloud, his owne Mumia, wherein the Divine and humane power is understood.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Transplantation Here the Patient's Excrement is the Magnet, and the vital Spirit of the Plant arising from the Seed, is the Mumia which the Magnet receives.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Inescation (with some pretenders to Physick), a kind of transplantation... It is done by impregnating a proper Medium or Vehicle with some of the Mumia or vital Spirit of the Patient, and giving it to some Animal to eat.

1898 Science 25 Mar. 401/1 They accept the doctrines of Paracelsus as respects the mumia.

3. = mummy n.¹ 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicines prepared from other minerals

king's silverc1400

sulphurc1400

cerusec1405

mummy1601

sal-prunella1664

prunella salt1721

antimonial1728

mummia1770

1770 G. von Engeström & E. M. da Costa tr. A. F. Cronstedt Ess. Syst. Mineral. cl. 153 The asphaltum..that the Egyptians used in embalming their dead bodies, and which is now called Mummia.

1841 S. Maunder Sci. & Lit. Treasury Mumia, in mineralogy, a sort of bitumen, or mineral pitch, which is soft and tough, like shoemaker's wax, when the weather is warm, but brittle, like pitch, in cold weather. It is found in Persia, where it is highly valued.

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Mumia... It either signifieth Pissasphaltus or a certain substance found in receptacles for the dead in which corpses were preserved for many years, or [etc.].

1959 Stud. in Renaissance 6 17 In trade it [sc. pissasphalt] was usually called mummia.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mummia
释义	mummian. Brit. /ˈmʊmɪə/, /ˈmʌmɪə/, U.S. /ˈmumiə/, /ˈməmiə/ Forms: α. late Middle English–1600s 1900s– mummia, 1500s–1600s 1900s– momia, 1500s–1600s 1900s– mumma, 1500s– mumia, 1600s munna (transmission error). β. late Middle English momyan̄ (rare), late Middle English momyn̄ (rare). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mummia. Etymology: < post-classical Latin mumia, mummia mummy n.¹ The β. forms (see quot. 1486 at sense 1a) are unexplained. Now historical. 1. a. = mummy n.¹ 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > gums and viscid products > [noun] guma1382 mucilagea1400 mummya1400 mummia?a1425 emulsion1612 mucage1657 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 178^v (MED) Mummia [?c1425 Paris Mummye; L. mummia] is flesh of dede men balsamate. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. ciij Take momyan̄ oderwise called momyn̄, among Poticaries. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 273 Mirrh elect, Aloes Hepaticæ, Spieænardi, Sanguis Draconis, Frankensence, Mumiæ, Opopanax, [etc.]. 1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Diij Mumma the pound iiii.d. 1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 13 in Jewell House Their flesh so embaulmed is called Mumia. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. iv. sig. K Sell him for Mummia, hee's halfe dust already. View more context for this quotation 1612 J. Webster White Divel i. i Your followers Haue swallowed you like Mummia. 1619 E. Bert Approved Treat. Hawkes 106 If you will giue any thing else, let it be Mumma beaten into powder and so giuen with her meate. 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 935 Our Author..Observes that Mumia is of four sorts; all which he doth demonstrate. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure of Franchard iv, in Longman's Mag. 1 686 All forenoon, he worked on his great book, ‘Comparative Pharmacopœia’... The article ‘Mummia’..was already complete. 1911 R. Brooke in New Age 16 Nov. 59/1 As those of old drank mummia To fire their limbs of lead, Making dead kings from Africa Stand pandar to their bed. 1974 L. Durrell Monsieur ii. 122 ‘Now let us partake of the holy mummia,’ he said..and the dervishes advanced towards us humbly bearing large silver trays on which were a number of small bowls with pieces of mummia—or at least I presumed it was mummia. 1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 119 I myself effect sympathetic recures by a withdrawal of blood to attract mumia. †b. In extended use. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster ii. i. sig. C2 Looke here, my sweete Wife; I am Mum, my deare Mumma, my Balsamum, my Sperma Cete . View more context for this quotation 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ii. 71 Consolidating..his Body of Errantry into a gumme and moving Mummia. †2. Alchemy. A vital principle (after Paracelsus' use: cf. mummy n.¹ 2b). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > supremely effective medicine treacle?1543 magisterium1585 magistery1594 mummy1605 elixir1632 mummia1652 1652 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Of Christs Test. 53 He gave them the spirituall humanity, viz: the power and vertue of his body and bloud, his owne Mumia, wherein the Divine and humane power is understood. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Transplantation Here the Patient's Excrement is the Magnet, and the vital Spirit of the Plant arising from the Seed, is the Mumia which the Magnet receives. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Inescation (with some pretenders to Physick), a kind of transplantation... It is done by impregnating a proper Medium or Vehicle with some of the Mumia or vital Spirit of the Patient, and giving it to some Animal to eat. 1898 Science 25 Mar. 401/1 They accept the doctrines of Paracelsus as respects the mumia. 3. = mummy n.¹ 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicines prepared from other minerals king's silverc1400 sulphurc1400 cerusec1405 mummy1601 sal-prunella1664 prunella salt1721 antimonial1728 mummia1770 1770 G. von Engeström & E. M. da Costa tr. A. F. Cronstedt Ess. Syst. Mineral. cl. 153 The asphaltum..that the Egyptians used in embalming their dead bodies, and which is now called Mummia. 1841 S. Maunder Sci. & Lit. Treasury Mumia, in mineralogy, a sort of bitumen, or mineral pitch, which is soft and tough, like shoemaker's wax, when the weather is warm, but brittle, like pitch, in cold weather. It is found in Persia, where it is highly valued. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Mumia... It either signifieth Pissasphaltus or a certain substance found in receptacles for the dead in which corpses were preserved for many years, or [etc.]. 1959 Stud. in Renaissance 6 17 In trade it [sc. pissasphalt] was usually called mummia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425
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