单词 | mineralist |
释义 | mineralistn. 1. = iatrochemist n. Cf. mineral n. 5. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > Paracelsic or chemiatric Paracelsian1574 Paracelsist1574 chemist1585 chemic1617 mineralist1629 chymiater1694 chemiatric1839 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 12 Mountebanck, Empricks, Quacksaluers, Mineralists. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons (BNC) 642/2 Stringer's titles of..chemist, physician, and mineralist to Queen Anne..were probably honorary designations. 2. More generally: a person expert in or familiar with the uses and properties of (esp. economically important) minerals and ores; a mineralogist. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > mineralogy > [noun] > mineralogist mineralist1631 mineralogist1646 oryctologist1799 rockhound1922 1631 J. Smith Advts. Planters New-Eng. 3 Some Silver Ore, but so poore it was not regarded; better there may be, for I was no Mineralist. 1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales sig. A1v Countreys and Villages, where such Mines and Minerals are, should be exactly and publickly known, which I shall in time divulge (with the like for Plants) whereby such Metallists, Mineralists, Botannists, or other Artists, who have occasion to use them, need not trouble forein parts. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 195 The Metalls..which are lodged in the perpendicular Intervalls of the Strata, do still grow, (to speak in the Mineralists phrase) or receive additional Encrease from the Corpuscles. a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 84 The..Mineralists of Germany..all agree that the Ludus Paracelsi is the tessellated Pyrites. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 660 The mountain..has several of the appearances described by mineralists. 1806 H. H. Brackenridge Gaz. Publ. 100 Two French gentlemen, a botanist and a mineralist. 1950 William & Mary Q. 7 304 It was on this voyage of the Argo that John Patten who shipped as draftsman and mineralist, lost his life at the hands of natives off the Labrador coast. 1976 Norwich Mercury 10 Dec. 3/2 (heading) Treasure topic for mineralists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1629 |
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