单词 | dionise |
释义 | † dionisen. Obsolete. A precious stone, of a black colour streaked with red, reckoned, by medieval writers, a preservative against drunkenness. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > less identifiable gems > [noun] > black and red stone dionise1483 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xxxiv. 843 Dionisius is a blak stoon or broune yspronge with reede veynes..[if] it is ygrounden and medled wiþ water it smelleþ as wyn, and ȝit it wiþstondiþ dronkeschipe.] 1483 Cath. Angl. 100/1 Diones, dionisia. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 6 The Dionise is black, or rather browne, all bestrowed with bloudie strokes or vaines. 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 101 The Adamant, Dionise, and Calcedon. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 40/1 The Dionise stone. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 94 Dionysia. 1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 354 Dionysia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1483 |
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