单词 | citrinity |
释义 | † citrinityn. Obsolete. Yellowness, esp. (Alchemy) as the quality produced by a process of citrination; = citrineness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow > greenish citrinea1398 citrineness?a1425 citrinity?a1425 primrose colour1600 citron1612 lemon-colour1707 lemon1794 primrose1805 primrose yellow1839 lemon-hue1845 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 91v (MED) Rednez of blode, cytrynyte [L. citrinitas] of colre, whitnes of fleume, blacnes of melancolie. 1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber iii. ii. i. iv. 149 Citrinity or Yellowness is..a determinate Proportion of White and Red. 1692 W. Salmon Medicina Practica xiii. 253/2 Heat working in the dryness, causeth Whiteness, and in the White the Citrinity and wonderful deep Redness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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