Meaning of empyreuma | Babel Free

Definitions

The particular smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in sealed containers.

obsolete

Examples

“If the Liquor retain a certain Empyreuma, or smatch of the fire, thou shalt help it by putting it into a glasse close stopt, and so exposing it to the heat of the sun, and now and then opening the glasse that the fiery impression may exhale, or else let the glasse stand in a cold moist place.”

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