† sulphur vif, vive Obs.
[a. OF. sou(l)fre vif: see sulphur n. and vive.]
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| c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 25 Þe preste..lays þerapon diuerse spiceries and sulphure viue [ed. 1839, v. 48 Sulphur vif]. 1471 Ripley Comp. Alch. iv. vi. in Ashm. (1652) 145 Mercury and Sulphure vive. 1540 tr. Vigo's Lyt. Pract. A viij b, Take a quantytie of Sulpher vyfe. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 556 The sulphur-vif is digged out of the mine such as we see, that is to say, transparent cleere, and greenish. 1683 Digby's Chym. Secr. 5 Sulphur-vive, which is clear and transparent in pieces. |