Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A less correct spelling of
docimasy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek an assay, examination.
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Examples
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SAGE'S principal object being to naturalize in France mineralogy, docimacy, and metallurgy, he first obtained the establishment of a _Special
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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