NOUN
- (archaic) a solvent
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the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females
the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped
How To Use menstruum In A Sentence
- Prima_ are neither ingenerable nor incorruptible Substances; since by his _Alkahest_ some of them may be produc'd of Bodies that were before of another Denomination; and by the same powerfull _Menstruum_ all of them may be reduc'd into insipid Water. The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of
- Nilotes held the moon to be of “male-female sex,” the men sacrificing to Luna and the women to Lunus. 387 Isis also was a hermaphrodite, the idea being that Aether or Air (the lower heavens) was the menstruum of generative nature; and Damascius explained the tenet by the all-fruitful and prolific powers of the atmosphere. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- “Though we talk of the progress that the race has made in learning and enlightenment,” he wrote, “it is alarming to notice … how germs which men deem dead really lurk dormant for ages, and then develop themselves with startling rapidity when they find the proper menstruum”: A Furnace Afloat
- The most common are vacuum and continuum; the less common ones are menstruum, residuum, triduum, and the distinctly rare duumvir and duumvirate.
- Phœnicissare ({Greek}) = cunnilingere in tempore menstruum, quia hoc vitium in Phœnicia generate solebat (Thes. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- While most tinctures are in a ratio of one part herb to five parts menstruum, extracts are more concentrated, as much as one to one. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
- Keeping this doughty resolution, he sat down to dinner with his counsel learned in the law; and speedily they dispatched the dish of chops which was set before them, and the better part of the bottle of old port, which served for its menstruum. Saint Ronan's Well
- Commercial extract of colocynth may be often found in the market made with an aqueous menstruum.
- Note 65: The only reference I have found of medical writings linking women's monthly cycles with the Christian notion of original sin appears in the work of a woman, Hildegard of Bingen's Causae et curae (ed.P. Kaiser [Leipzig, 1903]), in which the author emphatically drew a parallel between Eve's actions in the Garden and menstrual cycles: Quare menstruum. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- So the Wazir bade unbind him and he rose and taking virgin glass,554 brayed it and mixed it with unslaked lime and a menstruum of onion-juice. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night