"docimasy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: docimasies [plural], docimacy [alternative], docimasia [alternative], docimastics [alternative]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δοκιμασία (dokimasía, “examination”). Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|grc|δοκιμασία||examination}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δοκιμασία (dokimasía, “examination”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|docimasies}} docimasy (usually uncountable, plural docimasies)
  1. (dated) The art by which the nature and proportions of an ore are determined; assaying. Tags: dated, uncountable, usually Synonyms: docimastics Translations (the art by which the nature and proportions of an ore are determined; assaying): dokimázia (Hungarian), dokimaziológia (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-docimasy-en-noun-HyHzA-sv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 74 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of 'the art by which the nature and proportions of an ore are determined; assaying': 100 0
  2. (dated) The examination of poisons. Tags: dated, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-docimasy-en-noun-~abK5G13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: docimastic, pulmonary docimasia

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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