mercurism
English
Etymology 1
mercury + -ism
Noun
mercurism (plural mercurisms)
- mercury poisoning
Etymology 2
Mercury + -ism
Noun
mercurism (plural mercurisms)
- (obsolete) A communication of news; an announcement.
- 1690, Sir Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend:
- Altho at this distance you had no early Account or Particular of his Death; yet your Affection may cease to wonder that you had not some secret Sense or Intimation thereof by Dreams, thoughtful Whisperings, Mercurisms, Airy Nuncio's, or sympathetical Insinuations, which many seem to have had at the Death of their dearest Friends:
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 mercurism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- scrummier