| 单词 | vegetable stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable stone vegetable stone n. [after post-classical Latin lapis vegetabilis (from 13th cent. in British sources); compare also Old French pierre vegetable (13th cent.)] now historical a variety of the philosophers' stone. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > non-remedial medicine > elixirs of life stone1390 philosophers' stonea1393 vegetativec1450 ferment1471 egg of philosophersc1484 vegetable stonea1500 vegetant stone1576 philosophical stone1581 elixir1605 philosophers' work1612 philosophic stone1647 water stone of the wise men1649 elixir of youth1725 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > occult medicine > elixirs of life stone1390 philosophers' stonea1393 vegetativec1450 ferment1471 egg of philosophersc1484 vegetable stonea1500 vegetant stone1576 philosophical stone1581 amphicome1601 erotylos1601 elixir1605 philosophers' work1612 philosophic stone1647 elixir of youth1725 a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 65 (MED) Take the stone animal, vegetable, and mynerall. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health f. 112v This water is the vegetable stone,..of such a vertue, that one scruple..taken by the mouth, of any sicke person or euyl complexioned, for the space of fortye dayes, shall be delyuered and quyted of any greeuous and harde sicknesse. 1692 W. Salmon Medicina Practica lxix. 674/1 The Vegetable Stone is gotten by Virtue of the Fire of Nature. 1723 tr. A.-T. Limojon de Saint-Didier Hermetical Triumph 72 When this very same Matter has been animated,..it becomes the vegetable Stone. 1844 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 41 322 He [sc. Elias Ashmole] laid down four varieties of the stone in question—to wit, the mineral stone—the vegetable stone—the magical stone—and the angelical stone. 1972 W. Shumaker Occult Sci. 193 The vegetable stone was very likely responsible for ‘the Wallnut-Tree which anciently grew in Glastonbury church-yard’. 2009 P. Carr-Gomm & R. Heygate Bk. Eng. Magic vi. 232 Regarding the Philosopher's Stone.., he mentions that alchemists have described a vegetable stone—and even an angelic stone too. < as lemmas |
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