† adropn.

Forms: 1500s–1700s adrop, 1600s adrup.

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

Etymology: < post-classical Latin adrop (12th cent. in a British source), apparently < Arabic usrubb < Persian usrup, usrub (now usually surb, surb, Pahlavi srub).The medial -d- in the Latin word may have arisen from a misreading of an unattested Arabic variant *uṣrubb; in Arabic the letters for the emphatic consonants ṣ and ḍ are only distinguished by a diacritic dot (which is added to the latter), and so one of them could easily have been misread as showing the other.

Alchemy. Obsolete.

Lead, esp. regarded as a source or form of the philosopher's stone.

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a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 52 Thow shalt have grapes right as the Ruby Red, whiche is our adrop, our vzifur [Ashm. Ulyfer], & our Red Lead.

a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 46^v (MED) These & no mo Be our magnesia, our adrop, and none other Thinges there bene.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E2 Your Moone, your Firmament, your Adrop .

1692 W. Salmon Medicina Practica iii. lxii. 650/2 This Leprous Gold the Philosophers call, Adrop, or Adrup, which Gold is the Philosophers Lead.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Adrop, among alchemists, denotes either that precise matter, as lead, out of which the mercury is to be extracted for the philosopher's stone; or it denotes the philosopher's stone itself, inasmuch as this is also called saturn and plumbum, or lead.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	adrop
释义	† adropn. Forms: 1500s–1700s adrop, 1600s adrup. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin adrop. Etymology: < post-classical Latin adrop (12th cent. in a British source), apparently < Arabic usrubb < Persian usrup, usrub (now usually surb, surb, Pahlavi srub).The medial -d- in the Latin word may have arisen from a misreading of an unattested Arabic variant uṣrubb; in Arabic the letters for the emphatic consonants ṣ and ḍ are only distinguished by a diacritic dot (which is added to the latter), and so one of them could easily have been misread as showing the other. Alchemy. Obsolete. Lead, esp.* regarded as a source or form of the philosopher's stone. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > chemical digestion > philosophers' stone stone1390 minerala1393 ferment1471 egg of philosophersc1484 adropa1550 philosophical stone1581 angelical stone1586 philosophers' stone1590 philosophers' work1612 philosophic stone1647 water stone of the wise men1649 lapis1666 a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 52 Thow shalt have grapes right as the Ruby Red, whiche is our adrop, our vzifur [Ashm. Ulyfer], & our Red Lead. a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 46^v (MED) These & no mo Be our magnesia, our adrop, and none other Thinges there bene. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E2 Your Moone, your Firmament, your Adrop . View more context for this quotation 1692 W. Salmon Medicina Practica iii. lxii. 650/2 This Leprous Gold the Philosophers call, Adrop, or Adrup, which Gold is the Philosophers Lead. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Adrop, among alchemists, denotes either that precise matter, as lead, out of which the mercury is to be extracted for the philosopher's stone; or it denotes the philosopher's stone itself, inasmuch as this is also called saturn and plumbum, or lead. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1550
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