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单词 per deliquium
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per deliquiumadv.adj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin per deliquium.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin per deliquium by melting or liquefaction (1597 or earlier) < classical Latin per by (see per prep.) + post-classical Latin deliquium melting (see deliquium n.1).
Chemistry. Obsolete.
A. adv.
Through a process of liquefaction or melting without heating, by deliquescence in moist air.
ΚΠ
1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces i. 35 There is made of the Caput Mortuum, per deliquium [L. per deliquium] a green liquor which doth wonderful things.
1669 Philos. Trans. 1668 (Royal Soc.) 3 891 Niter, either pulverised or dissolved per deliquium, attenuats it [sc. blood], and renders it very florid.
1727 S. Hales Veg. Staticks 191 The calx of the distilled Calculus did not run per deliquium, and had consquently no Sal Tartar in it.
1782 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 323 Some of the clay was calcined with an equal weight of salt of tartar, which, for the greater certainty in regard to its purity, had been run per deliquium, and afterwards evaporated to dryness.
B. adj.
Designating a substance prepared by deliquescence in moist air. Only in postpositive use.
ΚΠ
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall 189 As strong a solution of Salt of Tartar in fair Water as could be made (we having no Oyl of Tartar per deliquium at hand).
1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 175 I exposed the remainder to the Air, that it might arrest some of the Vapors.., and thereby became fluid; which is commonly, tho' improperly, stiled an Oyl per deliquium.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Salt of Tartar, or any fix'd Alcali, in a Cellar..runs into a Kind of Water, call'd by the Chymists, Oil of Tartar per Deliquium.
1770 J. Cook Nat. Hist. Lac, Amber, & Myrrh 25 The famous oil of Myrrh per deliquium.
1843 H. Beasley Pocket Formulary (Amer ed. 1) 232 An oil per deliquium was formerly made by putting myrrh into a boiled egg from which the yolk had been removed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020).
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