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‖ ˈtitanos Alch. Obs. rare. Also -us. [a. Gr. τίτανος gypsum, chalk, white earth.] = magnesia 1.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 901 Take the stoon that Titanos men name. Which is that quod he? Magnasia is the same Seyde Plato. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. iii. in MS. Harl. 853 No. 4 (1589) lf. 40 b, Chawcer rehearseth how Titanos is the same In the Cannon his tale. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xiv. ii. (1886) 295 The end..is, to atteine unto the composition of the philosophers stone, called Alixer, and to the stone called Titanus. |