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单词 myrrhine
释义

myrrhineadj.

Forms: 1600s myrrine, 1600s 1800s myrrhine.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin murrinus.
Etymology: < classical Latin murrinus, myrrinus made of or containing myrrh < murra , myrrha myrrh n.1 + -inus (see -ine suffix2). Compare Middle French mirrhin (1554). Compare also myrrhean adj.
Obsolete. rare.
Made of or containing myrrh; redolent of myrrh.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > glass-like materials
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myrrhine1637
1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 120 These words proceeding from Bellama's lips, Did make Albino Myrrine juyce carouse, To rayse an active heate, which nimbly skips In every veine, like Fayes in Obrons house.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Myrrhine, Myrrhean..of myrrhe, made of myrrhe, seasoned with myrrhe.
1838 Southern Literary Messenger 4 268/1 She thought of early childhood's summer hours,..Of garlands wreathed for youthful friends in bowers Of myrrhine sweets, through which her feet had strayed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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