occamyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A corruption of alchemy.

名詞

occamy (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) An alloy imitating gold or silver.
   • 1713 April 10, Richard Steele, The Guardian‎, volume 1, number 26, page 150:

     The ten ſhillings, this thimble, and an occamy ſpoon from ſome poor ſinner, are all the atonement which is made for the body of ſin in London and Weſtminſter.

参照

• “occamy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.