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† ˈdionise Obs.
Also 5 diones, and in L. form dionysia.
[a. OF. dionise, dyonise (13.. in Godef.), ad. med.L. dionȳsia (Albertus Magnus), L. dionȳsias (Pliny), Gr. διονῡσιάς, f. Διόνῡσος Bacchus.]
A precious stone, of a black colour streaked with red, reckoned, by mediæval writers, a preservative against drunkenness.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xxxiv. (1495) 563 Dionisius is a blacke stoon or broune spronge wyth red veynes..yf it is groundid and medelyd wyth water it smellyth as wyne, and yet it wythstondyth dronkenshyp.] 1483Cath. Angl. 100/1 Diones, dionisia. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 6 The Dionise is black, or rather browne, all bestrowed with bloudie strokes or vaines. 1601Chester Love's Mart. lxxxvi. (1878) 18 The Adamant, Dionise, and Calcedon. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 40/1 The Dionise stone. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 94 Dionysia. 1855Smedley Occult. Sc. 354 Dionysia. |