myrrhic

English

WOTD – 6 January 2016

From myrrh +‎ -ic.

myrrhic (not comparable)

Of, related to, or derived from myrrh.
- 1898, “6306. Thompson, W. P. [Flügge, R.]. April 13.”, in Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications. Class 76. Leather, including Treatment of Hides and Skins, London: Patent Office, →OCLC, page 90:
  Corpses, treatment of.—A solution of myrrhic resin is obtained by treating powdered myrrh […]
(poetic) Having a pleasant fragrance; aromatic.
- 1916, Emanuel Morgan [pseudonym; Witter Bynner], “The Locust-tree”, in Anne Knish [pseudonym; Arthur Davison Ficke]; Emanuel Morgan, Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments, New York, N.Y.: Mitchell Kennerley, OCLC 10672070, archived from the original on 22 July 2012, opus 45:
  All the fragrances of dew, O angel, are there, / The myrrhic rapture of young hair, […]
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 217:
  Above us the avern brooded like a gonfalon; from it there drifted a myrrhic perfume.
- 2004, John Mole, It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina – and Real Geeks, London: Nicholas Brealey Pub., →ISBN, page 316:
  It reverberates with layer on layer of flavour and aroma, from springtime zephyr at the top of the register to a myrrhic basso profundo.

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