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mercurialism

noun

Etymology

From mercurial + -ism; from Latin mercurialismus.

  1. derived from mercuriālis
  2. derived from mercuriālis — “a plant, probably annual mercury (Mercurialis annua)”
  3. derived from mercurial
  4. derived from mercurial
  5. inherited from mercurial — “a plant, probably the goosefoot (Chenopodium); (possibly) dog’s mercury (Mercurialis perennis)”
  6. suffixed as mercurialism — “mercurial + ism”

Definitions

  1. Chronic mercury poisoning.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mercurialism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA