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pigmentary, n. and a.|ˈpɪgməntərɪ|
Also 4 pymentarie, -ye, 5 pygmentarie.
[ad. L. pigmentāri-us adj., of or belonging to paints or unguents; n. a dealer in these, in med.L. esp. in scents, spices, and aromatic confections, f. pigment-um: see pigment n. and -ary1.]
†A. n.
a. A maker or seller of ointments, drugs, etc.; an apothecary.
b. (In quot. 1474) app. an aromatic confection. Obs.
1382Wyclif Exod. xxxvii. 29 Ensence of moost clene swete smellynge spices, with the werk of pymentarye [Vulg. opere pigmentarii; 1388 a makere of oynement; 1609 Bible (Douay) pigmentarie]. ― Song Sol. v. 13 The chekes of hym as litle flores of swote spicis, plaunted of pymentaries. 1474Caxton Chesse iii. v. 101 Makers of pygmentaries, spicers and apotiquaries.
B. adj.
†1. Pertaining to an apothecary or maker of aromatic confections. Obs.
1382Wyclif Song Sol. iii. 6 Smoke of the swote spices, of myrre, and of encens, and of alle pymentarie poudre [1388 al poudur of an oynement makere]. 1398[see pigment n. 2].
2. Of, pertaining or belonging to, or consisting of pigment; producing or containing pigment or colouring-matter; in Path. characterized by the formation or presence of pigment.
1851Carpenter Man. Phys. (ed. 2) 590 To reflect the light that reaches the interior of the eye, when..not prevented from doing so by the interposition of the pigmentary layer. 1851Wright Richardson's Introd. Geol. xii. 385 The ink, though fossilised, retaining its pigmentary property. 1860O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. iv, The purple-black of the..whiskers is constitutional and not pigmentary. 1876J. S. Bristowe The. & Pract. Med. (1878) 84 The deposition of yellow, red, and brown pigmentary granules. |