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单词 vaporary
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vaporaryn.

Etymology: < modern Latin vaporarium, < Latin vapor vapour. Compare Latin vapōrārium a steam-pipe in a bath.
A medical preparation used in a form of vapour-bath.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > other miscellaneous medicines > [noun] > medicines to be burnt, smoked, or inhaled
suffite1621
suffiment1650
vaporary1657
cigarette1876
medicated candle1880
inhalation1882
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. v, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Cc A Vaporary consists of the same things a Semicupium is made of.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 504 Of a Vaporarie:..fiat decoctio..cujus vaporem excipiat.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Vaporary, a Decoction of Herbs, and other ingredients, the fume whereof ascends through the hole of a Chair where the patient sits. [Hence in later edd. and other Dicts. The additional definition in Bailey (1721–) ‘a stove, stew, hot-house or bagnio’ follows Kersey (1706) s.v. Vaporarium.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

vaporaryadj.

Etymology: formed as vaporary n.: see -ary suffix1.
Obsolete. rare.
(See quot. 1653.)
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the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour > relating to or caused by vapour
vaporary1653
1653 R. Gentilis tr. F. Bacon Nat. & Exper. Hist. Winds 94 Let us see what may be said concerning Vaporary windes (we mean such as are engendred by vapours).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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