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-oyl
suffix
- (in chemistry) indicating an acyl group or radical
ethanoyl
methanoyl
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Word History and Origins
Origin of -oyl1
C20: from o ( xygen ) + -yl
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Example Sentences
But Ice will swim in water of what thinness soever; and though it sink in oyl, will float in spirits of Wine or Aqua vit.
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You must be careful not to have the heat too much; for then it will turn to oyl; as also if the Cream have been carried.
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This hath not the unsavoury taste of Oyl alone, nor the blackness of Butter alone.
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You may also baste such meat with yolks of new-laid Eggs, beaten into a thin oyl.
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As he cloathed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and as oyl into his bones.
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