单词 | nephritic wood |
释义 | > as lemmasnephritic wood nephritic wood n. now historical = lignum nephriticum n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > for the kidneys nephritic1661 nephritic wood1664 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > wood > specific wood red sanders1553 lignum nephriticum1640 nephritic wood1664 1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours iii. 206 .Having made..divers Tryals upon this Nephritick Wood, we found mention made of it by the Industrious Jesuit Kircherus, who..received a Cup Turned of it from the Mexican Procurator of his Society. 1672 I. Newton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5094 For, if that were a sufficient reason, then Blew and Yellow must also be the same colour, since they are both exhibited by the same Tincture of Nephritick Wood. 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 156 Nephritick Wood. This is brought to us from New Spain; it is from a Tree reckon'd of the Ash-kind. The Wood is hard and colour'd almost like Saunders. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Transmutation The change of colour of a decoction of the nephritic wood, according to the different lights it was viewed in. 1797 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 176/2 The wood [of moringa] dyes a beautiful blue colour. It is the lignum nephriticum, or nephritic wood, of the dispensatories. 1908 N.E.D. at Nephritic Nephritic wood... In earlier accounts said to come from ‘New Spain’ and to be the coatli of Hernandez; but in later use also applied to the wood of the Horse-radish Tree (Moringa polysperma). 1986 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 47 19 An infusion of that rare and exotic wood lignum nephriticum (nephritic wood), which had the curious characteristic of appearing a different color by reflected and by transmitted light. < as lemmas |
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