How To Use Menstruum In A Sentence
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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
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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
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“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
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The most common are vacuum and continuum; the less common ones are menstruum, residuum, triduum, and the distinctly rare duumvir and duumvirate.
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Phœnicissare ({Greek}) = cunnilingere in tempore menstruum, quia hoc vitium in Phœnicia generate solebat (Thes.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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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
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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
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Commercial extract of colocynth may be often found in the market made with an aqueous menstruum.
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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
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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
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Note 55: Dinant, p. 23: "Dicit autem ARISTOTELES feminam quodammodo esse marem imperfectum et eius menstruum sanguinem esse indigestum sperma; similem superfluitatem esse sperma viri et menstruum sanguinem mulieris excepto quod superfluitas hec maior in femina est et colorem retinet sanguineum propter defectum caloris digerentis." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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It is what chemists would call the 'menstruum' in which all our qualities are worked and made manifest, which holds them together.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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“Prandy was the best menstruum for onions and sheese.”
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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While, therefore, a calculus is only as urine precipitated and solidified, and this fluid only as calculous matter suspended in a menstruum, it must appear that the lithic diathesis is as natural and universal as structural disintegration is constant and general in operation.
Surgical Anatomy
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menstruum or additament," and said that, in such operations as calcination, "We may well take the freedom to examine ... whether there intervene not a coalition of the parts of the body wrought upon with those of the menstruum, whereby the produced concrete may be judged to result from the union of both.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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Note 164: Canon, 1.3.3, fols. 66va-b: "Nutrici preterea est precipiendum ut temperato utatur et ut nutrientibus boni chimi alatur et ne ullo modo aliquis cum ea coeat: hoc enim sanguinem permiscet menstruum, et lactis odorem corrumpit, et ipsius minuit quantitatem, immo fortasse impregnatur in quo nocumentum duobus attinens filiis existit." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
