ferruminationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ferrumination (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The soldering or uniting of metals.
   • 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The motives of the present work—Reception of the Author’s first publication—The discipline of his taste at school—The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds—[William Lisle] Bowles’s sonnets—Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. [Alexander] Pope”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 21:

     Now look out in the Gradus for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus; for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in the ferrumination of these centos.