Middle English Dictionary Entry
auripigment n.
Entry Info
| Forms | auripigment n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. orpiment.
1.
(a) A sulphide of arsenic, orpiment; esp., the trisulphide of arsenic, yellow orpiment [used in med. and alch., and regarded as a precious stone]; (b) disulphide of arsenic, red orpiment, realgar.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)196a/a : Avripigmentum is a veyne of þe erþe or a manere frestoone liche to golde in colour..and is double, reede and citrine..and brenneþ alle bodyes of metall oute take golde..auripigment is hoote and drye..and þe citrine helpeþ to medicyne.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)288/26 : Take whit wijn, & of verte grece..auripigment..grinde þes ij sotilli & leie hem in þe whit wijn.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)82/31-3 : [A]rsenic & auripigment bene boþe one, bot arsenic is noȝt so fair as auripigment..auripigment is gretter and more schynyng and more disesy for to grynde.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)83/30 : Auripigment is desiccatyue, consumptiue, euaporatyue, eradicatyue, putrefactiue, ruptyue, and cauteriatyue.
- c1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)954 : Precious stones: The Alabaustre and the Allectory, The Aurypigment and the Argerite.
- a1500 Richardoune Stones (Add 34360)p.61 : Many stones ther ben of vertues commendable, As Alabanstre, Allectory, and Auripigment.
b
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)83/7-8 : Realgre is called of som men rede auripigment..Auripigment is hote and dry..of whiche bene tuo spicez..ȝelow and rede. ȝelow is more competent to vse of lechez.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)965 : The Auripigment hoote ys in effect.
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