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empyreuma|ɛmpɪˈruːmə|
Also 7 empyruma; pl. empyreumata.
[a. Gr. ἐµπύρευµα a live coal covered with ashes, f. ἐµπυρεύειν to set on fire.]
†1. (See quots.) Obs.
1643J. Steer tr. Exp. Chyrurg. vi. 20 That outward heat doth draw unto it Empyruma, that is, heat left by the fire in the burned part. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 66 The Empyreuma, or Atoms of the fire must first be called forth.
2. The ‘burnt’ smell imparted by fire to organic substances.
1641French Distill. i. (1651) 13 A certain Empyreuma, or smatch of the fire. 1736Bailey Housh. Dict. 188 If the cassia be drawn low it is very subject to an empyreuma. 1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 195 Our victuals..are adulterated with salt, spice, oil, and empyreuma. 1858Hogg Life Shelley II. 423 A disgusting taste..gravely pronounced to be only an empyreuma.
†3. In pl. ‘Little feaverish remains, after a crisis. Also that thick viscous matter which settles at the bottom of distilled Water’ (Phillips). Obs.—0
1721–1800in Bailey. 1775in Ash. |