单词 | terra sigillata |
释义 | terra sigillatan. 1. An astringent bole, of fatty consistence and reddish colour, obtained from Lemnos; formerly esteemed as a medicine and antidote; sphragide; known also as †sealed earth (sealed adj. 1d), sigillate earth, Lemnian earth, Terra Lemnia n. Also applied to similar earths found elsewhere. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > native earths > [noun] > sphragide terra sigillata1398 Saracen's earth1526 Terra Lemnia1613 sigillated earth1657 sphragid1828 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicinal earths terra sigillata1398 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 Armenian bole1621 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [noun] > mineral-derived terra sigillata1398 tuttyc1400 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] > other antidotes > mineral terra sigillata1398 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 Armenian bole1621 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvi. xcvii A Certeyn veyne of erþe is icleped Terra sigillata, and is singulerliche colde and druy. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 61 Take þe pouder of crabbis brent vj. parties, gencian .iij parties, terre sigillate oon partie, make poudre. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. H.iiv Take one parte of Terrasygyllata, and an other of the gumme called Sarasenicum. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 97 The soueraigne minerall against infections, called Terra Lemnia, or Sigillata. 1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour II. 59 Germany is famous for that sort of earth, seldom found any where else, called Terra sigillata. 1802 Brookes' Gazetteer (ed. 12) at Lemnos This earth [of Lemnos]..is called Terra Sigillata, being formed into small loaves sealed with the grand signior's seal, and thus dispersed over various parts of Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > earths as colouring matter red stoneeOE red eartheOE redding1292 raddlea1350 ruddle1353 rubric?1440 red ochre1481 sinoper1501 red1538 red chalk1538 sinople1548 terra sigillata1563 almagre1598 majolica1598 minium1613 orell1614 reddle1648 India red1668 Indian red1672 riddle1681 smit1728 Persian earth1735 red marl1748 abraum1753 Terra Sienna1760 tivera1825 kokowai1836 sinopia1844 sinopis1857 1563 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes ii. 27 b Terrasigillata or ruddle. 1608 J. Smith True Relation Occurr. Virginia 35 Two Indians, each with a cudgell, and all newly painted with Terra~sigillata, came circling about me as though they would have clubed me like a hare. 3. Archaeology. [Described in W. Dorow 1821, Opferstätte u. Grabhügel der Germanen u. Römer am Rhein ii. 32, etc.; the Roman name for the pottery is unknown.] A type of fine Roman pottery made from the first cent. b.c. to the third century a.d. in Gaul (also Italy and Germany), usually red in colour and sometimes decorated with stamped figures or patterns. Not the preferred term in English: see Arretine adj., Samian adj. and n.H. Brunsting 1972, in Westerheem 21 252–68, provides detailed references to this usage in English and in German and Dutch sources, and to the medicinal tablet or pastille (sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > Roman thumb-pot1851 sigillata1903 terra sigillata1903 1903 J. Déchelette in Revue des Études Anciennes 5 78 A study of the terra sigillata in the territory of the Ruteni near Millau. 1920 F. Oswald & T. D. Pryce Introd. Stud. Terra Sigillata i. 1 Next to datable inscriptions, there is, perhaps, no relic of Roman occupation which yields such valuable chronological evidence as Terra Sigillata. 1936 Oxoniensia 1 50 In and immediately below this layer much pottery was found including Terra Sigillata of the second century. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 761/2 Italian terra sigillata, or Arretine ware, was chiefly manufactured at Arretium. 1978 M. Gilbert Empty House xi. 94 The stuff we call Samian, or Terra Sigillata, which was manufactured in Central Gaul. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1398 |
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