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Menstruum   Listen
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Menstruum  n.  (pl. E. menstruums, L. menstrua)  Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent. "The proper menstruum to dissolve metal." "All liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction." Note: The use is supposed to have originated in some notion of the old chemists about the influence of the moon in the preparation of dissolvents.





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... Holy Spirit; and three witnesses on earth,—the breath, water, and blood. He thus agrees with the Masters of the Hermetic Philosophy, who give to their Sulphur the name of Ether, to their Mercury the name of philosophical water, to their Salt that of blood of the dragon, or menstruum of the earth. The blood, or Salt, corresponds by opposition with the Father; the Azothic, or Mercurial water, with the Word, or Logos; and the breath, with the Holy Spirit. But the things of High Symbolism can be well understood only by the ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike


Words linked to "Menstruum" :   expelling, flow, oligomenorrhea, dissolvent, archaism, discharge, solvent, period, menses, resolvent, dissolving agent, hypermenorrhea, menorrhagia, dissolver, catamenia, archaicism


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