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smaragdine, n. and a.|sməˈrægdɪn, -aɪn|
Also 5 smaragdin, -yn(e, -en, -an, -one, 6 smaradine.
[ad. L. smaragdin-us of emerald, a. Gr. σµαράγδιν-ος, f. σµάραγδος: see smaragdus. Cf. OF. smaragdine n., mod.F. smaragdin, -ine adj.]
A. n. = smaragd.
This use is due to a misunderstanding of the Vulgate text of Rev. iv. 3 ‘similis visioni smaragdinæ’, which in turn is an inaccurate rendering of the Gr. ὅµοιος ὁράσει σµαραγδίνῳ.
1382Wyclif Rev. iv. 3 The reynbowe was in the cumpas of the seete, lijk to the siȝt of smaragdyn. 1390Gower Conf. III. 112 Ther sitten fyve Stones mo: The smaragdine is on of tho. c1400Destr. Troy 924 Þis stone full of strenght,..smaragden hit hat. 1423Jas. I. Kingis Q. clv, Off bestis sawe I mony diuerse kynd:..The pantere, like vnto the smaragdyne. 1584R. W. Three Ladies of Lond. D iv, Besides I haue Diamondes, Rubyes, Emerodes,..Smaradines,..and almost of all kinde of precious stones.
B. adj.
1. Of or belonging to, consisting of, a smaragd; resembling that of a smaragd; of an emerald green.
1591Lodge Catharos F j b, He putteth a Smaragdine stone in his nest, against venemous beastes of the mountaines. 1611H. Broughton Require Agreem. 56 Now what meaneth this: A Rainbow was about the throne, in sight Smaragdine. 1651French Distill. v. 170 If gold and silver together, a Smaragdine colour. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 283 Smaragdine (Smaragdinus), the green splendour of the emerald. 1839–48Bailey Festus 29/1 The spiritual sun, The Heavenly Earth smaragdine,..still exist. 1855― Mystic, etc. 91 That smaragdine mirror (their chief toy Which all the angels wrought).
Comb.1651French Distill. v. 168 A smaragdine-greene. 1842W. Howitt Life Germany 349 Lakes and floods of the most lovely smaragdine-coloured waters.
2. smaragdine table, a mediæval Latin work on alchemy, Tabula Smaragdina (publ. 1541), attributed to the Egyptian Hermes Trismegistus.
1597tr. Hortulanus (J. de Garlandia), A brief Commentarie upon the Smaragdine Table of Hermes of Alchemy. 1652H. P. (title), Five Treatises of the Philosophers Stone... To which is added the Smaragdine Table. 1712Steele Spect. No. 426 ⁋6, I shall never forget the venerable Air of his Countenance, when he let me into the profound Mysteries of the Smaragdine Table of Hermes. |