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† esurine, a. and n. Obs.
Also 7 essurine.
[ad. mod.L. ēsurīn-us, app. irreg. f. ēsuriēs hunger; used by Paracelsus in the sense ‘promoting appetite’, with reference to medicaments of an acid nature; subsequently (in pre-scientific chemistry) used as the distinctive epithet of mineral acid salts, and sometimes interpreted as ‘eating, corrosive’.]
A. adj.
a. Promoting appetite; also, inclined to eat; (of the appetite) voracious.
b. Having the nature of a mineral acid; corrosive. esurine salts: ‘such as are of a fretting or eating quality’ (Bailey).
[a1541Paracelsus Buch v. den Tartarischen Kranckh. (1589) 246 Nuhn ist Esurinum Acetosum ein Artzney die von ihrer Natur den Magen so hungerig machet dass er begert zu essen vnessentliche Speiss, und aber was er begert das verzehrt er. a1644Van Helmont Paradoxa iii. §10 Wks. (1704) 650 Sal quoddam hermaphroditicum metallorum, quod defectu nominis esurinum sive acetosum re et nomine vocari cœpit.] 1651Biggs New Disp. 218 Digestible, esurine, and depascent ferment. 1652French Yorksh. Spa vi. 55 By esurine salt I understand..a certain acid vapour applicable to all Metals and Minerals. 1662H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar vii. 156 Whatever will saturate that esurine [printed esurive] Humour upon the Stomach. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 2 Every vitriol is made of an essurine salt. c1676Wiseman (J.), The air of Hampstead in which..there is always something esurine and acid. 1687P. Madan Tunbr. Waters in Harl. Misc. I. 591 If at dinner you have an esurine appetite, take care not to eat too much.
†B. n. Obs. A medicine which provokes appetite or causes hunger.
1775in Ash; hence in mod. Dicts. |