rosinous

English

Etymology

From rosin +‎ -ous.

Adjective

rosinous (comparative more rosinous, superlative most rosinous)

1. (obsolete) Containing or resembling rosin.
   • 1618, Angelus Sala Vincentinus Venetus, translated by Tho[mas] Bretnor, Opiologia. Or, A Treatise Concerning the Nature, Properties, true Preparation and Safe Vse and Administration of Opium. For the Comfort and Ease of All Such Persons as Are Inwardly Afflicted with Any Extreame Griefe, or Languishing Paine, Especially Such as Depriue the Body of All Naturall Rest, and Can Be Cured by No Other Meanes or Medicine Whatsoeuer. Dedicated to the Illustrious, High and Mighty Lords, the Estates Generall of the Vnited Prouinces in the Netherlands., London: […] Nicholas Okes, page 13:

     For eſſentiall things are alwaies farre more effectuall then groſſe bee, for confirmation whereof we neede not doubt, that if a man ſhould ſeparate the roſinous and ſulphurous ſubſtance of Tobaccao, and bring it into ſuch a conſiſtence as Opium is, and afterwards giue it vnto ſuch as vſually take Tobacco, they could not poſſibly indure the tenth part ſo much of this as of the leaues, as hath beene alreadie practiſed and tried.

   • 1634, Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus, second tome, London: […] Adam Islip, page 193:

     Moreouer, there is the Roſemary, wherof be two kinds: the one is barren and bears no ſeed: the other, which riſeth vp alſo in a ſtem or main ſtalk, carieth ſeed or a roſinous gummy fruit, called Cachrys.

   • 1645, Annotations upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament; Wherein the Text Is Explained, Doubts Resolved, Scriptures Parallelled, and Various Readings Observed. By the Joynt-Labour of Certain Learned Divines, Thereunto Appointed, and Therein Employed, as Is Expressed in the Preface., London: […] John Legatt and John Raworth:

     Cedars for Maſts, Ezek. 27. 5. and it may be any of them; or in generall any tree that yeelds gumme or Roſin, and ſo it is of neere ſound and ſignification with the word Gopher which ſignifieth bituminous or roſinous, that is, of brimſtone or roſin; and ſuch wood is both of good ſent and of long continuance.

   • 1651, Samuel Hartlib His Legacie: or An Enlargement of the Discourse of Husbandry Used in Brabant and Flaunders; Wherein Are Bequeathed to the Common-Wealth of England More Outlandish and Domestick Experiments and Secrets in Reference to Universall Husbandry, London: […] H. Hills, for Richard Wodenothe […] , page 63:

     Now I have enquired, how it cometh to paſſe that there is ſo great ſtore of Honey in Moſcovia; conſidering the Winters are extreame cold, and alſo very long: and I am credibly informed that firſt, the ſpring when it beginneth, cometh extraordinary faſt, that the dayes are very long, and the Summers farre dryer then ours here in England, ſo that the Bees are not hindred by continual ſhowers; as they are ſome yeares here in this Iſle: and laſtly, that the Countrey aboundeth much with Firs, and Pine-trees, which the Inhabitants uſually cut, that the Gumme, Roſinous or Turpentine ſubſtance may ſweate forth, to which places the Bees do come, and preſently fill themſelves, and returne laden: and perhaps for theſe very reaſons, Bees thrive very much in New-England.

   • 1651, The Urinal of Physick. By Robert Record Doctor of Physick. Whereunto Is Added an Ingenious Treatise Concerning Physicians, Apothecaries, and Chyrurgians, set forth by a Dr. in Queen Elizabeths Dayes. With a Translation of Papius Ahalsossa Concerning Apothecaries Confecting Their Medicines; Worthy Perusing and Following., London: […] Gartrude Dawson, page 235:

     The time of Maceration or ſoaking, is to be judged from the conſideration of the things infuſed (for hard and Roſinous things ſuch as Guiacum, are macerated to ſtirre them) till the liquor poured on is mingled ſufficiently with the oylie matter, or is ſufficiently tincted or affected with the colour, or ſavour of the medicine;

   • 1657, Renodæus, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the VVhole Body of Physick Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals: The Manner of Compounding Medicaments, and the Way to Administer Them. Methodically Digested in Five Books of Philosophical and Pharmaceutical Institutions; Three Books of Physical Materials Galenical and Chymical. Together with a Most Perfect and Absolute Pharmacopoea or Apothecaries Shop. Accommodated with Three Useful Tables., London: […] Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel; […] , page 378:

     Theſe words, Pix, Teda, Piſſa, Palimpiſſa, Zopiſſa, Piſſaphaltos, and Pix navalis, often occurre in the narration and dilucidation of Roſines; but what they denote, every one knows not at firſt ſight: Pix then or Pitch, is the flux of combuſt Roſine; or rather, a fat and roſinous liquor, colliquated and educed out of the middle of a Pine-tree accended. Teda is not a tree, as Pliny falſly aſſerts, but a diſeaſe hapning to the Pine-tree by age; wherein it is as it were ſtrangulated by its too much pinguetude: for the abundance of that roſinous matter, wherewith the whole Tree is referted, is its ruine; which going into a Teda, may by artificial ſedulity be accended, and it will effuſe Pitch; which the Greeks call Piſſa.

   • 1657, Johannes Jonstonus, An History of the Wonderful Things of Nature: Set Forth in Ten Severall Classes Wherein Are Contained I. The Wonders of the Heavens. II. Of the Elements. III. Of Meteors. IV. Of Minerals. V. Of Plants. VI. Of Birds. VII. Of Four-Footed Beasts. VIII. Of Insects, and Things Wanting Blood. IX. Of Fishes. X. Of Man., London: […] John Streater, […] , page 200:

     But it is no doubt, but that the roſinous and pitchy matter may communicate ſomething to the end of the weeds, which yet nature muſt do by a way we cannot perceive;

   • 1658, John Baptista Porta, Natural Magick […]. Wherein Are Set Forth All the Riches and Delights of the Natural Sciences., London: […] Thomas Young, and Samuel Speed; […] , page 296:

     Then take Oyl of Peter, liquid Verniſh, Roſinous Turpentine, equal parts; and with theſe, being liquid, mingle all together, and fill Pots with them, to be caſt among Ships and enemies: or, if you make a Ball of theſe, binde it hard about the head of a hammer, whoſe ſharp-tooth’d end muſt be a foot long, and the handle three foot.

   • 1659, John Schroder, Ζωολογια: or, The History of Animals as They Are Useful in Physick and Chirurgery. Divided into Four Parts; The First Treateth of the More Perfect Terrestrial Creatures. Second of Birds. Third of Fishes. Fourth of Insects., London: […] E. Cotes, for R. Royston […], and Rob. Clavel […] , page 136:

     Honey according to Galen is the juyce of heavenly dew gathered of Bees; according to Paracelſus it is a certain roſinous thing of the earth tranſplanted into a vegetable kinde by the vertue of the Planets, and heavenly influences, and gathered from hence of Bees and further digeſted.

   • 1660, Paracelsus, translated by J[ohn] H[arding], Paracelsus His Archidoxis: Comprised in Ten Books, Disclosing the Genuine Way of Making Quintessences, Arcanums, Magisteries, Elixirs, &c. Together with His Books of Renovation & Restauration. Of the Tincture of the Philosophers. Of the Manual of the Philosophical Medicinal Stone. Of the Virtues of the Members. Of the Three Principles. And Finally His Seven Books, of the Degrees and Compositions of Receipts, and Natural Things., London: […] W. S. […] , pages 120–121:

     The degrees of Health. Such things as proceed forth from the Earth, do poſſeſs the firſt degree of health, […] The things of the Ayre have the ſecond degree, as all kinds of Birds. Thoſe of the Water have the third degree, as All kindes of • Metals. • Marcaſites. • Kakimeaes. • Salts. • Minerals. • Roſinous Sulphurs. • Fiſhes. • Gems. • Stones. The things of the Fire the fourth Degree.

   • 1664, John Baptista Van Helmont, translated by J[ohn] C[handler], Van Helmont’s Works: Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. Wherein the Philosophy of the Schools Is Examined, Their Errors Refuted, and the Whole Body of Physick Reformed and Rectified. Being a New Rise and Progresse of Philosophy and Medicine for the Cure of Diseases, and Lengthening of Life., London: […] Lodowick Hoyd, […] , pages 379–380:

     But ſmall living creatures, which do immediately make bloud to themſelves, and their whole ſubſtance of water alone, have an example, almoſt in every vegetable, eſpecially in ſtony and ſandy Mountains, which are far ſeperated from the dung of men, wherein, perhaps 60 particular kind of Roſinous trees are taken notice of, are fully nouriſhed only of rain water, and of ſnow, or the Leffas or planty juyce of a ſtony odour, and do grow unto the greateſt height, being trees ſo fat, that they would be choaked, unleſs they pour forth the ſame on every ſide.

   • 1667, Rege Sincera [pseudonym], Observations Both Historical and Moral upon the Burning of London, September 1666. […], London: […] Thomas Ratcliffe, and are to be sold by Robert Pawlet […], page 20:

     [T]he perſons that were burnt in this fire were above 200000. which did happen, becauſe the houſes are all of wood, and the ſtreets paved with great Firr-trees ſet cloſe together, which being Oily and Roſinous made the incendie unexpreſſible, ſo that in four hours time, the City and Suburbs were wholly conſumed.

   • 1670, Bazilica Chymica, & Praxis chymiatricæ or Royal and Practical Chymistry in Three Treatises. Wherein All Those Excellent Medicines and Chymical Preparations Are Fully Discovered, from Whence All Our Modern Chymists Have Drawn Their Choicest Remedies. Being a Translation of Oswald Crollius His Royal Chymistry, Augmented and Inlarged by John Hartman. To Which Is Added His Treatise of Signatures of Internal Things, or a True and Lively Anatomy of the Greater and Lesser World. As Also the Practice of Chymistry of John Hartman, M. D., Augmented and Inlarged by His Son. All Faithfully Englished by a Lover of Chymistry., London: […] John Starkey […], and Thomas Passinger […] , page 18:

     Among all Fruits of the water, there is not a greater Venom then Arſenick, in which, according to Paracelſus, all Venenoſity of Roſinous matter are united as one Body.

   • 1675, Nehemiah Grew, The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks, Together with an Account of Their Vegetation Grounded Thereupon; In Two Parts: The Former Read Before the Royal Society, Feb. 25. 1674/5; the Latter, June 17. 1675. The Whole Explicated by Several Figures in Nineteen Copper-Plates; Presented to the Royal Society in the years 1673. and 1674., London: […] J. M. for Walter Kettilby […] , page 78:

     So that the oylie or roſinous parts of the Sap, are a kind of Embalming to the Heart, or older part of a Tree, ſecuring it from the deſtructive impreſſions of the Air.

   • 1675, P[ierre] Thibaut, translated by a Fellow of the Royal Society, The Art of Chymistry: As It Is Now Practised, London: […] John Starkey, […] , page 147:

     Obs. 2. That we fill the Retort but half full, becauſe that the Myrrha does ſwell a little being heated, and ſo if the Retort were full, might run over in ſubſtance: yet becauſe it is a roſinous dry Gum, it is not neceſſary to give it any intermedium.

   • 1677, Christopher Glaser, translated by a Fellow of the Royal Society, The Compleat Chymist, or, A New Treatise of Chymistry. Teaching by a Short and Easy Method All Its Most Necessary Preparations. written in French by Christopher Glaser, London: […] John Starkey […] , pages 231–232:

     Take the pulp of Coloquintida ℥jſs, Agaric, Scamony, a. ℥j, black Hellebore ℥ij, Powder of Diarrhodon Abbatis ℥ſs, Aloes ſuccatrine ℥x. Bruiſe the black Hellebore, chop the pulp of Coloquintida, put them together into a Bolts-head, and pour upon them good Spirit of Wine, to four fingers height, ſtop well the mouth of the Bolts-head, and in another put the Powder of Diarrhodon Abbatis apart, and pour thereon alſo Spirit of Wine to the ſame height; chop alſo the Agaric, and bruiſe the Scamony, and put on them an excellent Spirit of Wine, which may extract their Roſinous ſubſtance;

   • 1677, Io[hann] Sigis[mund] Elsholt, translated by T[homas] S[herley], The Curious Distillatory: or The Art of Distilling Coloured Liquors, Spirits, Oyls, &c. from Vegitables, Animals, Minerals, and Metals. A Thing Hitherto Known by Few. Containing Many Experiments Easy to Perform, yet Curious, Surprizing, and Useful: Relating to the Production of Colours, Consistence, and Heat, in Divers Bodies Which Are Colourless, Fluid, and Cold. Together with Several Experiments upon the Blood (and its Serum) of Diseased Persons, with Divers Other Collateral Experiments., London: […] I. D. for Robert Boulter, […] , page 44:

     The Diſtilling Water, although it loſt both the Colours, and was become clear: yet for all that I obſerved that it breathed forth a grateful roſinous Odour.

   • 1678, Moses Charras, The Royal Pharmacopœea, Galenical and Chymical, According to the Practice of the Most Eminent and Learned Physitians of France, and Publish’d with Their Several Approbations, London: […] John Starkey […], and Moses Pitt […] , page 225:

     As to the Opinion of ſome, that all the Ingredients of this Oyntment are cold, it cannot be ſo thought, in regard that the taſte and Aromatic ſmell of the Popler-buds, and their roſinous and combuſtible part demonſtrate them to be hot, as well as the Burdock.

   • 1680, The English Atlas, volumes I (Containing a Description of the Places next the North-Pole; As Also of Muscovy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and Their Several Dependances. With a General Introduction to Geography, and a Large Index, Containing the Longitudes and Latitudes of All the Particular Places, Thereby Directing the Reader to Find Them Readily in the Several Maps.), Oxford: […] Moses Pitt […] , page 16:

     The Pines and Firs which grow upon the Sea-coaſts, are ſaid to have in the ſummer-time a kind of Roſinous Gum diſtilling from them, which falling into the Baltick and Bothnick Seas, and by the waves carryed to the Pruſſian ſhore, has given occaſion to ſome, to aſcribe to this the original of their Amber, which ſeems to be rather a coagulation of Petroleum.

   • 1682, R. G., Dr. Franciscus de le Boe Sylvius Of Childrens Diseases: Given in a Familiar Style for Weaker Capacities. With an Apparatus or Introduction Explaining the Authors Principles: As Also a Treatise of the Rickets., London: […] George Downs […] , page 43:

     The Sowre humour is expelled by Sweat, by Aromatical and Roſinous Medicines that cauſe Sweat, as Lignum Vitae, Saſſafras, Juniper, Box, Oak, and ſuch like woods, ſet down alſo elſewhere.

   • 1683, Matthew Poole, Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Wherein the Sacred Text Is Inserted, and Various Readings Annex’d, Together with the Parallel Scriptures, the More Difficult Terms in Each Verse Are Explained, Seeming Contradictions Reconciled, Questions and Doubts Resolved, and the Whole Text Opened., volume I, London: […] Iohn Richardson, for Thomas Parkhurst, Dorman Newman, Ionathan Robinson, Brabazon Ailmer, Thomas Cockeril, and Benjamin Alsop:

     […] partly becauſe it was an hilly and woody country, and partly becauſe it abounded with roſinous, and oily, and gummy Trees, as appears from Gen. 37. 25. Ier. 8. 22.

   • 1707, Pierre Le Lorrain de Vallemont, translated by Arthur Young, Curiosities of Nature and Art in Husbandry and Gardening. Containing Several New Experiments in the Improvement of Land, Trees, Fruits, &c. And Also Nice and Useful Observations in the Vegetation and Propagation of Plants, with Choice Secrets to Make Plants, Flowers, and Fruits Larger, More Beautiful, and to Ripen Quicker than Usual., London: […] D. Brown […], A. Roper […], and Fran. Coggan […] , page 93:

     There are Juices, 1. Aqueous, […] 5. Roſinous, 6. Bituminous.

   • 1725, [Noël] Chomel, “NICOTIANA, OR TOBACCO”, in R[ichard] Bradley, editor, Dictionaire Oeconomique: Or, The Family Dictionary. […], volume II (I–Z), London: […] D[aniel] Midwinter, […], →OCLC, column 2:

     The Leaves and Root yield a gluey Juice, inclining to yellow, of a roſinous Smell that is agreeable enough, and of a ſharp, tart and biting Taſte.

   • 1794 May 29, George Pearson, “Observations and Experiments on a Wax-like Substance, resembling the Pé-la of the Chinese, collected at Madras by Dr. Anderson, and called by him White Lac”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, London, section III (Experiments to discover some of the Affinities and Combinations of white Lac), subsection 5, page 388:

     The candles made of white lac also smoked and produced a rosinous smell.

Synonyms

• resinous
• rosiny