Lexicographical Neighbors of Docimasy
Literary usage of Docimasy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Science,: Second Series, Comprising Treatises on Chemistry by John Marks Moffatt (1835)
"docimasy. The art of assaying minerals, for the purpose of ascertaining thr-
composition, and especially the nature and proportions of their rce tallic ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... and the docimasy excluded from the office men of notoriously discreditable
life, even after they might have drawn the successful lot. ..."
3. The History of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1830)
"In the seventh book he treats of docimasy, or the method of determining the
quantity of metal which can be extracted from every particular ore. ..."
4. Considerations Upon the Art of Mining: To which are Added, Reflections on by William Hypolitus Keating (1821)
"Without docimasy, mineralogy would be a science of hut little use. ... Thus we
see how necessary to the miner is an acquaintance with docimasy, ..."
5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... and the docimasy excluded from the office men of notoriously discreditable
life, even after they might have drawn the successful lot. ..."
6. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"interrogation; spec, quiz (US), docimasy, cross- question, interpellation; see
EXAMINATION. 8. Referring to what is asked: inquiry, query, interrogation, ..."
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