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chrysoprase|ˈkrɪsəpreɪz|
In N.T. (Rev. xxi. 20) chrysoprasus |krɪˈsɒprəsəs|. Forms: 3–5 crisopace, 4 crysopase, 6 chrusopasse, 7–8 chrysopass; 7–9 crysoprase, 9 chrysopras, 7– chrysoprase; also 4–5 crisopassus, 6 crysoprasos, crusoprasos, 7 chrysoprasus, etc.
[ME. crisopace, a. OF. crisopace = It. crisopasso, ad. L. type crisopass-us = chrȳsopassus, found in some MSS. of Pliny, beside the etymological chrȳsoprasus, Gr. χρῡσόπρασος a golden-green gem, f. χρῡσό-ς gold + πράσον leek. Schade quotes many med.L. examples of chrysoprassus, and -passus, also -pastus, -parus, and chrysopasion, -ptasion, -pasius, -ptasius, -tapsus, corruptions, and partly, perh., etymologizing perversions of the name. Since the 16th c. the Eng. form has been more or less conformed to the original Gr. and Latin.]
a. The ancient name of a golden-green precious stone, now generally believed to have been a variety of the beryl, or to have included that among other stones of similar appearance. It was one of the stones to which in the Middle Ages was attributed the faculty of shining in the dark.
b. In mod. Min. Applied to an apple-green variety of chalcedony.
c1275Luue Ron 174 in O.E. Misc. 98 Smaragde, Beril, and crisopace. c1325E.E. Allit P. A. 1012 Þe crysopase þe tenþe is tyȝt. 1382Wyclif Rev. xxi. 20 The tenthe, crisopassus [Tindale & Coverd., Crysoprasos; Cranmer Crusoprasos; Geneva, Rheims, Chrysoprasus]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xxvi. (1495) 561 Crisopassus is a stone of Ethiopia and is hyd in lyghte and seen in derknesse. a1400–50Alexander 5274 Calcidoynes & crisopaces. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 5 b, The Chrusopasse..In the night time it is flamelike, in the day time yelow or wan. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 93 That the wearing of a Crysoprase [will] make one out of love with gold, as some have delivered. a1711Ken Poet. Wks. (1721) II. 163 The Chrysopass with golden spots bespread. 1804Jameson Min. I. 191 May not chrysopras..stand under chalcedony? 1835New Monthly Mag. 299 The sky was clear and of the milky cerulean of chrysoprase. 1873Longfellow Wayside Inn, Azrael 25 The signet-ring of chrysoprase..seemed to blaze with hidden fire. 1884Dana Min. 194.
c. The colour of this stone. Also attrib.
1835Willis Pencillings II. xliii. 40 The crysoprase green of the shallows. 1850Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets I. 239 The lady's face Did melt back in the chrysopras Of the orient morning sky. |