单词 | oeno- |
释义 | oeno-comb. form Forming compounds with the sense ‘of, relating to, or resembling wine’. ΚΠ 1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt III. xxxix. 125 Inflated with œnogen gas, or, in other words, with the fumes of wine. ΚΠ 1866 H. Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 178 Œnolin is..precipitated in a mass, which is brown-red while moist, nearly black when dry, but yields a violet-red or brown-red powder. oenomancy n. Brit. , U.S. , ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by food and drink > [noun] > by wine oenomancy1652 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 166 Oinomancy, [divining] by Wine. 1857 Ladies' Repository Sept. 546 Oinomancy, [divining] by the lees of wine. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 July 547/1 The bibulous may find an excuse..in a knowledge of oenomancy. oenometer n. Brit. , U.S. [ < oeno- comb. form + -meter comb. form2, after French œnomètre (1803)] rare an instrument for measuring the alcoholic strength of wines or other liquors; also figurative.ΚΠ 1854 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Œnometer, the same as Alcoholmeter q.v. 1864 G. Meredith Emilia in Eng. I. xi. 137 An accurate oinometer, or method of determining what shall be the condition of the spirit of man according to the degrees of wine or beer in him, were surely of priceless service to us. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking of wine > person > connoisseur or lover of wine > not oenophobist1867 1867 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 102 209 The English and American oinophobists. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [adjective] oenopoetic1894 1894 J. L. W. Thudichum & A. Dupré Treat. Wines Pref. 8 The work of B. A. Lenoir consists of a first viticultural and a second œnopoetic part. ΚΠ 1847 H. McMurtrie Lexicon Scientiarum 163 Œnothionic, Chem... An acid formed during the action of sulphuric acid upon alcohol. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Œnothionic,..applied to an acid, also called sulphovinic, obtained in first mixing the ingredients for the formation of sulphuric ether. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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