pulver
verbEtymology From Middle English (participle pulvered), from the noun or Latin pulverō.
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Archaic To pulverise; to make into powder.
pulver
nounEtymology From Middle English pulver, from Latin pulver-, pulvis. Doublet of powder.
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Obsolete Powder.
- Take fine Suger ℔ ß. Spec. Diarhod. Abbatis ʒ ß. vvhyte Ambre beinge pulverzatede like meale ʒ jß. vvhyt povvndede Muſtarde ſeede, ʒ ß. Annis, and Fennelle Oyle. or in place therof, ℥ j ß. of Aqva vitæ, fine totalle, and not foraminatede Pearles, beinge verye ſmalle pulverizatede ʒ ß. you muſt liqvefye the Suger, vvith the vvater, of vvilde blacke Gherryes, vvith Lavender vvater, vvith Spicanardi, or vvith Roſevvater, mixe theſe pręnominated pulvers the one vvith the other, mixinge, & addinge heer vnto the Suger, and as then make little Cakes therof.1599, Oswaldus Gabelhouer [i.e., Oswald Gaebelkhover], translated by A. M., The Boock of Physicke […], Dort: […] Isaack Gaen [i.e., Isaac Jansz], pages 27–28:
- This also was a new tinder that did quickly fyre the puluer of discention, which blew wp the bulwarke of this once so hopefull and so happie a freindshipe, and rankled the old wound, and brought it anew a blooding; […]c. 1650, Patrick Gordon, A Short Abridgement of Britane’s Distemper, from the Yeare of God M.DC.XXXIX. to M.DC.XLIX, Aberdeen: […] Spalding Club, published 1844, page 175:
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- Then out of the stain and rash furor, the passionate pulver of stone, / The trembling suffusion that dazzled and awfully shone, / Chamelion-convulsion of color, hilarious ranges of glare— […]1889, Madison J[ulius] Cawein, “Chords”, in Accolon of Gaul, with Other Poems, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Company, canto VII, stanza 1, page 150: