单词 | acetum |
释义 | acetumn. 1. Vinegar. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > acid or tart flavouring > [noun] > vinegar eisellc1160 vinegarc1315 acetum1526 acetous acid1786 acetic acid1788 1526 Grete Herball Expos. Wordes sig. Dd.iiv/2 Oxiȝacre, it is a drynke [printed brynke] to be had at the potycaryes, ye shall fynde more therof in the chaptre of Acetum. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. vii. f. 184/2 Acetum or vynegre is cold in the fyrst degre, and drye in the thyrde. 1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. 79 That the Wine appears nor different from the Acetum, the cause thereof is, because there is also a Nature like Acetum, in it. 1693 J. Moyle Chirurgus Marinus II. i. 49 You must have there in readiness your Instruments both large and small,..with your Restringent Powders,..Tow, Acetum, [etc.]. 1698 R. Boulton Exam. Mr. J. Colbatch Bks. ii. 89 Vinegar or Acetum is not Acid, but Acrid. 1820 W. Scott Abbot III. i. 14 A curious distillation of rectified acetum; or vinegar of the sun. 1842 Pharmacopœia U.S. 10 Acetum, vinegar. Impure dilute acetic acid prepared by fermentation. 1976 Jrnl. Econ. & Social Hist. Orient 19 126 Egyptian sour wine (acetum) also served medicinal purposes. 2. A preparation made with vinegar; esp. a solution or extract of any of various plant, mineral, or other substances in vinegar (or dilute acetic acid), used medicinally; a medicated vinegar. Now rare. ΚΠ 1650 J. French tr. G. Dorn Chymicall Dict. sig. Aaa1, in tr. M. Sędziwóg New Light of Alchymie Acetum Philosophorum is a Mercuriall water, or otherwise called Virgins milke, wherein they say Metalls are dissolved.] 1656 tr. B. Valentinus Short Way & Repetition 11 in tr. B. Valentinus Last Will & Test. (1657) There is an acetum made of Antimony, of an acidity as other acetums are. 1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5056 They thought good to make an Extract of it by means of their Philosophical Acetum, made of Verdigrease, Sulphur, and a highly rectified Spirit of Wine, by a long digestion. 1674 tr. R. Minderer Medicina Militaris 25 I have often..used the Acetum of Marigold-flowers, especially for a cordial and sudorifick. 1847 A. B. Maddock Cases Pulmonary Consumption 28 A liniment—composed of acetum of cantharides, oil of terebinthium, [etc.]. 1894 Lancet 27 Oct. 973/1 I apply a strip of lint well soaked in the acetum of the B.P. to the diseased part. 1911 T. L. Stedman Pract. Med. Dict. 8/1 Two aceta are official in the U.S.P. and five in the B.P. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1526 |
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