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myrrhic en · ADJ

From myrrh + -ic.

(not-comparable) Of, related to, or derived from myrrh.
- Corpses, treatment of.—A solution of myrrhic resin is obtained by treating powdered 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:
(not-comparable, poetic) Having a pleasant fragrance; aromatic.
- All the fragrances of dew, O angel, are there, / The myrrhic rapture of young hair, […] 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
- Above us the avern brooded like a gonfalon; from it there drifted a myrrhic perfume. 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:
- It reverberates with layer on layer of flavour and aroma, from springtime zephyr at the top of the register to a myrrhic basso profundo. 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:

cs myrhový (related to myrrh)