phial
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of phial
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin phiala saucer < Greek phiálē; replacing Middle English phiole, fiole < Middle French fiole < Latin, as above
Vocabulary lists containing phial
Example Sentences
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Take human blood, put it in a glass phial and keep it covered in dung for forty days.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019
Suddenly, a phial of manna fell to the pavement and broke.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2018
What he delivered instead was a small, stoppered phial, neatly labelled “Art and Culture/Clement Greenberg/Distillation 1966”.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016
The experience was certainly straightforward - a welcoming staffer put a soothing warm wrapper on my finger, a pin prick which I hardly felt, and then a small phial of blood filled in a second.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2014
Then greatly daring, because he could think of nothing else to do, answering a sudden thought that came to him, he drew slowly out the phial of Galadriel and held it up.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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