hydrargirie

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hydrargirie (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of hydrargyrum.
    • 1569, James Sanford (translator), Henricus Cornelius Agrippa (author), Of the Vanitie and Vncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, page 157b:
      That they will get greater riches in Hydrargirie, then nature geueth in golde.
      That they will get greater riches in hydrargyrum than nature giveth in gold.