laboratorium
nounEtymology Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium. Doublet of laboratory.
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Archaic, Nonstandard A laboratory.
Non-native speakers' English
- Chemical Laboratorium of Dr. Faustus, at drawing of curtain he is seen stiring, with a rack, in the flames of a Chauldron—Monarchs standing about—during change of Scene Music plays—all looking in Chauldron, some on tiptoe.1869, “The Dawn of Liberty”, in The Dawn of Liberty; or Cadunt regum coronæ; vicit libertas. An Original Drama, Serio-Comical, in Three Acts, Chicago, Ill.: Co-operative Print, […], act I, scene III, page 22:
- Herr v. Storch, superintendent of our chemical laboratorium, subjected the milk from a cow with udder tuberculosis to chemical analysis, with the following results:[…]1885 April, B. Bang, “Tuberculosis in the Udder of the Milch Cow, and Its Effects upon the Milk”, in W. A. Conklin, F. S. Billings, editors, The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery, a Quarterly Journal of the Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics of the Lower Animals, volume VI, number 2, New York, N.Y.: William R. Jenkins, […], section “Experiments with Reference to the Influence of Heat upon Milk Containing Tuberculosis Bacilli”, page 155:
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- The astounding chemical versatility of the cells of the body, as evidenced in the production of such substances, and the immune bodies to which I have referred before, has forced on us a conception of the cell household as a complicated chemical laboratorium.c. 1906, Journal of the American Medical Association, page 246, column 2:
- In combating the various diseases the laboratoria and the Government Vaccination Institute and the Pasteur Institute should be mentioned as powerful aids.1920, Mededeelingen van den Burgerlijken Geneeskundigen Dienst in Nederlandsche-Indië, page 19:
- It is planned to continue the series by issuing laboratoriums at later dates dealing with subjects such as cohesion and adhesion, electrostatics, color and sound.c. 1941, Rosicrucian Digest, page 463, column 2:
- This by now famous investigation stimulated the search for and investigation of crystal counters in many laboratoria.1952, Diamond, a Crystal Counter, page 15: