Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name formerly given to saffron.
- noun A chemical preparation concocted by Paracelsus, used as a remedy for urinary calculus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.
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- noun chemistry, obsolete Any of various
medical remedies .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do not think any more of my lover; but supposing I made up my mind to receive the aroph from another, tell me how it could be done.
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Her modesty had now been replaced by confidence, and as she was looking at the aroph fitted in its place, she shewed me with her pretty finger very evident signs of her co-operation in the work.
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I thought the time a good one for introducing the aroph of Paracelsus, which I assured her was an infallible means of attaining the end she desired; but whilst I was singing the praises of this application the idea came into my head to say that, to be absolutely certain, it was necessary for the aroph to be mingled with semen which had not lost its natural heat.
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V. to make use of my specific I would use nothing but honey, so the composition of the aroph would not be a very complicated process.
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Then she asked me if the aroph took much time to make.
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The end of this apparatus was to be well anointed with aroph, and as it only acted at a moment of uterine excitement it was necessary to apply it with the same movement as that of coition.
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I feared I had promised more than I could perform, and I should not be able to make any abatement without hazarding, not the success of the aroph, but the bliss I had taken such pains to win.
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V., whose head was full of the aroph, asked her neighbour, who gave himself out for a great chemist, if he knew it.
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All the same I said nothing about the aroph or the share I had taken in its exhibition.
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“The aroph,” said I, “is the most powerful agent for bringing on menstruation.”
qms commented on the word aroph
The mustachioed lady's devotion
Is testing each balm and each lotion.
In hunting an aroph
To take her lip hair off
She'll try any alchemist's potion.
May 14, 2016