empyreuma
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“a live coal covered with ashes”). Compare French empyreume. See empyreal.
Noun
empyreuma (plural empyreumas or empyreumata)
- (obsolete, chemistry) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.
Derived terms
- empyreumatic
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for empyreuma in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)