Richard Browne, Prosodia Pharmacopoerum or The Apothecary's Prosody (1685)
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Date
1685
Author
Book title
Prosodia Pharmacopœorum: Or The Apothecary's Prosody. Shewing The Exact Quantities, in the Pronunciations of the Names of Animals, Vegetables, Minerals and Medicines, and all other words made use of in Pharmacy, many of which have been hitherto pronounced false
Publication place
London
Publisher
Benjamin Billingsley
Transcription source
Cambridge University Library
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- Greek
- herbal
- medicine
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Greek
explanations: English
explanations: English
other languages: Greek
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: alc&obreve;hol, the clean and pure substance of Bodies separated from the impure: as Alcohol vini, Alcohol antimonii: and this is made, not by pounding and grinding, but by artificial sublimation of it, without changing its natural colour, and without any feculent part. So Alcohol vini is rectified Spirit of Wine. Alcohol has the Penultima short, because of a Vowel before a Vowel. It is a barbarous Word. See Asarum. (p. 11)
sample: alc&obreve;hol, the clean and pure substance of Bodies separated from the impure: as Alcohol vini, Alcohol antimonii: and this is made, not by pounding and grinding, but by artificial sublimation of it, without changing its natural colour, and without any feculent part. So Alcohol vini is rectified Spirit of Wine. Alcohol has the Penultima short, because of a Vowel before a Vowel. It is a barbarous Word. See Asarum. (p. 11)
Alston
XVII.I.356
Wing
B5141
