| 单词 | philosophical month | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasphilosophical month   philosophical month  n. now historical, a period of forty days, used esp. by alchemists. ΚΠ ?a1600    Coronation of Nature 		(MS B.L. Sloane 12)	 f. 41  				Lett it putrefie in ye belly of a horse, According to ye Philosophicall month (to witt) forty days. 1765    tr.  G. van Swieten Comm. Aphorisms Boerhaave 		(ed. 2)	 I. 393  				His sight returned by degrees, and within a philosophical month became more acute than ever. 1988    Amer. Anthropologist 90 406/2  				The flesh was to be dried, and smoked for a ‘philosophical month’. < as lemmas | 
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