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Caput mortuum
Caput mortuum (plural capita mortua) is a Latin term whose literal meaning is "dead head" or "worthless remains", used in alchemy. Caput mortuum (alternately called nigredo) signified a useless substance left over from a chemical operation such as sublimation and the epitome of decline
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caput mortuum
‖ ˈcaput ˈmortuum [L.; = dead head.] † 1. A death's head, a skull. Obs.1658 R. Franck North. Mem. (1821) 153 Fancying..he lived now in his grave, and every object a Caput Mortuum. 2. Alch. and Chem. The residuum remaining after the distillation or sublimation of any substance, ‘good for nothing but ...
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Caput mortuum (pigment)
Caput mortuum (, and variously spelled caput mortum or caput mortem), also known as cardinal purple, is the name given to a purple variety of haematite The name for this pigment may have come from the alchemical usage, since iron oxide (rust) is the useless residue (caput mortuum) of oxidization.
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Clearwell Caves
Clearwell is also known as one of the few locations where rare natural purple ochre, particularly caput mortuum is found.
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squirism
squirism (ˈskwaɪərɪz(ə)m) [f. as prec. + -ism.] Squiredom.1819 W. S. Rose Lett. I. 97 A trait of genuine squirism in the life of Obizzo. 1843 J. Sterling in Carlyle Life (1851) ii. xiii. 327 Squirism had already, in that day, become the caput mortuum that it is now.
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terra damnata
‖ ˈterra damˈnata Alch. Obs. [L., = condemned or finally rejected earth.] = caput mortuum 2: see quot. 1704.1633 B. Jonson Tale Tub i. iii, She's such a vessel of fæces: all dried earth, Terra damnata! 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. s.v. Earth, Earth, which the Chymists call Terra Damnata and Caput M...
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Hartleian
Hartleian, a. and n. (hɑːtˈliːən, ˈhɑːtlɪən) A. adj. Of or pertaining to the doctrines of David Hartley (1705–57), regarded as the founder of the English associationist school of psychologists. B. n. One of the Hartleian school.1803 Edin. Rev. I. 476 The unnecessary complication of the Hartleyan the...
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Jorge Camacho (painter)
esotericism with René Alleau, who exhibited his works in a show titled The Dance of Death, in 1976, at Galerie de Seine, writing, "It is essentially the Caput mortuum in its application, hence the emblematic importance of the skull in all his paintings."
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caput
‖ caput (ˈkæpʌt) [L.; = head.] 1. Sometimes used in technical language instead of the vernacular ‘head’ or ‘top’; esp. in Anat. In Bot. the peridium of certain fungi. † 2. Short for caput mortuum, q.v. † 3. The former ruling body or council of the University of Cambridge.1716 Kennet in Monk Life Ben...
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Mummy brown
Mummy brown, also known as Egyptian brown or Caput Mortuum, is a rich brown bituminous pigment with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber and See also
Caput mortuum (pigment), a pigment also known as cardinal purple
Mummia, a medicinal preparation sometimes made from mummies
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elixate
elixate, v. (ɪˈlɪk-, ˈɛlɪkseɪt) [f. L. ēlixāt- ppl. stem of ēlixāre to boil, stew.] 1. trans. To boil, seethe; to extract by boiling.1623 in Cockeram. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies 62 Elixate your antimonie. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 162 Its enough to elixate a few simples in water on a slow fire. 1...
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Rui Paes
calls his Brutalist Period his palette became very restricted, bereft, basically reduced to the colour red which subsequently matured into the pigment Caput Mortuum.
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pouze
pouze local. Also 8 pouz, 9 pouse. [Derivation doubtful: identified by some with pouce, in dial. sense ‘rubbish, refuse’.] The refuse of the crushed apples after the cider is pressed out; = pomace 1 a.1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Vinegar, The Cyder must be drawn off as fine as may be into another ve...
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阁楼上的吾主博物馆
阁楼上的教堂
整修
今日阁楼上的教堂经2005年的修复,成为19世纪的样貌,如木制的栏杆,都漆成卡普特红(caput mortuum),地毯依记录请英格兰工匠重新以手工制作,灯具依照留下的照片等记录复制,只是由电力取代过去的煤气灯具。
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Elmelunde Church
Colours include black, ochre, caput mortuum, and cinnabar which has now faded to verdigris.
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