myrrhic

From myrrh +‎ -ic.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɜːɹik/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɜɹik/
• Hyphenation: myrrh‧ic

myrrhic (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or derived from 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:

     Corpses, treatment of.—A solution of myrrhic resin is obtained by treating powdered myrrh […]

2. (poetic) Having a pleasant fragrance; aromatic.
   • 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:

     All the fragrances of dew, O angel, are there, / The myrrhic rapture of young hair, […]

   • 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:

     Above us the avern brooded like a gonfalon; from it there drifted a myrrhic perfume.

   • 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:

     It reverberates with layer on layer of flavour and aroma, from springtime zephyr at the top of the register to a myrrhic basso profundo.

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:myrrhic.

• myrrh
• myrrhic acid
• myrrhine