| 单词 |
firmamental |
| 释义 |
firmamental, a.|fɜːməˈmɛntəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to the firmament.
1600Dr. Dodypoll i. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 100 Looke on the heavens colour'd with golden starres, The firmamentall ground of it all blew. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iv. i. v, If there be infinite planetary and firmamental worlds. 1657Cokaine Obstinate Lady ii. i, He was an intricate prognosticator of firmamental eclipses. 1869Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 240 To obtain the most perfect polarisation of the firmamental light. 1874T. Hardy Madding Crowd II. vii. 81 In the vast firmamental hollows overhead.
†b. Alchemy. firmamental water: liquid as pure as the firmament; app. rectified Aqua Vitæ.
1559Morwyng Evonym. 97 These..make disceitful image and likeliness of youth: the firmamentall water dothe it in dede. [1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. 281 An hollow crystal pyramid he takes, In firmamental waters dipt above.]
2. Of the nature of a supporting framework or permanent substratum: cf. firmament 3.
1696Brookhouse Temple Open. 40 The Flesh is the Incremental or Changeable Part, and the Spirit the Firmamental or Immoveable Part. 1825Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 357 note, The firmamental law that sustains and disposes the apparent world. |
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