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English
Etymology 1
From mercury + -ism.
Noun
mercurism (plural mercurisms)
- mercury poisoning
Etymology 2
From Mercury + -ism.
Noun
mercurism (plural mercurisms)
- (obsolete) A communication of news; an announcement.
1690, Sir Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend:Altho at this distance you had no early Account or Particular of his Death; yet your Affection may cease to wonder that you had not some secret Sense or Intimation thereof by Dreams, thoughtful Whisperings, Mercurisms, Airy Nuncio's, or sympathetical Insinuations, which many seem to have had at the Death of their dearest Friends:
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French mercurisme.
Noun
mercurism n (uncountable)
- mercurism
Declension