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Definition of Menstruums
1. menstruum [n] - See also: menstruum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menstruums
| mensual mensurabilities mensurability mensurable mensural mensuralism mensuralist mensurate mensurated mensurates | mensurating mensuration mensurational mensurations |
Literary usage of Menstruums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of formulas by John Hazelrigg (1904)
"Divers chemical experiments delivered by the ancients have been believed false,
only because the menstruums employed in the unsuccessful trials of them were ..."
2. Practical Masonry, Or, A Theoretical and Operative Treatise of Building by Edward Shaw (1846)
"The menstruums used to strike in the colors must be varied according to ...
The colors which have been found to succeed best with the peculiar menstruums, ..."
3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1905)
"menstruums A and C were treated with the sediment of corpuscles obtained by ...
menstruums B and D were treated with sediment from monkey blood. ..."
4. The Works of George Berkeley ...: Including His Posthumous Works; with by George Berkeley (1901)
"Fire, air, and water are all three menstruums : but the two last seem to derive
all their force and activity from the first (sect. 149). ..."
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