单词 | titanos |
释义 | titanosn. Alchemy. Now historical and rare. A mineral formerly believed to be an ingredient of the philosopher's stone and usually identified with magnesia (magnesia n. 1a).Although usually (following Chaucer's use) identified with magnesia, quot. 1584 appears to make a distinction between the two, while modern writers have variously identified titanos as calx, lime, or chalk. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > chemical digestion > philosophers' stone > ingredients of magnesiac1395 titanosc1405 powder of projection1650 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 1454 Take the stoon that Titanos men name Which is that quod he? Magnasia is the same Seyde Plato. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) l. 1162 Hire name is Magnesia.., chawncers [read chawcer] rehersith how titanos is þe same, In þe Canon his tale. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiv. ii. 355 The end..is, to atteine vnto the composition of the philosophers stone, called Alixer, and to the stone called Titanus. 1714 Short Enq. conc. Hermetick Art 24 Magnetia is fair and bright, known by few, and is found in High Places, as well as in Low, and called, by Plato, Titanos; these are the Materials to make Elixir. 2015 T. Ziolkowski Alchemist in Lit. ii. 32 He [sc. the Yeoman] refers to Plato, who told his disciple that the ‘privee stoon’ was called Titanos or Magnasia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1405 |
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