In chimistry, a disagreeable smell produced from burnt oils, in distillations of animal and vegetable substances.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.
EMPYREUMAT'IC
Having the taste or smell of burnt oil, or of burning animal and vegetable substances.
Alt. of Empyreumatical
To render empyreumatic.
Fetor Roget’s Thesaurus §401
N. fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity
V. have a bad smell, smell, stink, stink in the nostrils, stink like a polecat, smell strong, smell offensively
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