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单词 philosophical month
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philosophical month
philosophical month n. now historical, a period of forty days, used esp. by alchemists.
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?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’.
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