| 单词 | subtile matter |
| 释义 | > as lemmassubtile matter subtile matter n. now historical rarefied matter; spec. = subtle matter n. at subtle adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > matter or corporeal substance > postulated types of matter subtile mattera1500 subtle matter1660 materia subtilis1665 superatom1937 a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) l. 1983 (MED) The cause of odours to know if ye delyte, Fowre thingis therto be requysite: First that subtile matere be obedient To the worching of hete. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 96 When burning water therfore or Aqua vitæ reteininge hys purity and subtil matter [L. tenuitatem retinens]. 1664 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold iii, in Wks. (1772) II. 503 Whether the spring of the air depend..upon the agitation of some interfluent subtile matter. 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 10 An æthereal subtile Matter..may penetrate and pervade the minutest and inmost Cavities of the closest Bodies. 1717 M. Prior Alma iii. 55 Deny Des-cart his subtil matter, You leave him neither fire nor water. 1776 tr. Béardé de l'Abbaye Ess. Agric. 10 Light, the subtile matter, the æther, the electrical fire, the magnetical torrent. 1830 J. G. Macvicar Elements Econ. Nature i. 8 The ultimate atom..is composed of a nucleus of hard matter invested by subtile matter. 1876 R. Routledge Discov. & Inventions 19th Cent. 365 In the natural state all bodies contain an indefinite quantity of an imponderable subtile matter, which may be called ‘neutral electric fluid’. 1959 C. S. Smith in M. Clagett Crit. Probl. Hist. Sci. xv. 477 Although Rohault is much concerned with the manner of packing the particles, he is not specific as to the type of force that holds them together, whether their own attraction or under the influence of the external pressure of subtile matter. < as lemmas |
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