From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
See [en].
**** Noun
[atomy]
1. [en] A floating mote or speck of dust. [1]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1595 | author=w:Gervase Markham | title=The most Honorable Tragedie of [Sir Richard Grenville] , Knight, | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06960.0001.001
|passage=And thicker then in sunne are ATOMIES,<br>Flew bullets, fier, and
slaughtered dead mens cries.}}
1. * [III]
2. * [part=2]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1824 | author=w:Percy Bysshe Shelley | chapter=w:The Triumph of Life | title=Posthumous Poems | location=London | publisher=John and Henry L. Hunt | page=91 | url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t4bp1bc5r&view=1up&seq=109&q1=atomies
|passage=[...] the crew<br>Seemed in that light, like ATOMIES to
dance<br>Within a sunbeam;}}
1. * 1880 , [Richard Francis Burton] , _[The Kasidah] ,_ London: H. S. Nichols, 1894, p. [nbsp] 7, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/kasdahcoupletsof00burt/page/n32/mode/1up?q=atomy </sup>
2. *: The marvel is that man can smile dreaming his ghostly ghastly dream;—
3. *: Better the heedless ATOMY that buzzes in the morning beam!
4. [en] An indivisible particle . [2]
5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1610 | author=w:Gervase Markham | title=Markhams Maister-Peece | location=London | publisher=Nicholas Okes | chapter=2 | page=4 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06950.0001.001
|passage=Lastly, it [an Element] is the least part or _ATOMIE_ of that thing
which is made, or proceedeth from it.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1633 | author=w:John Donne | chapter=An Anatomie of the World | title=Poems | location=London | publisher=John Marriott | page=242 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69225.0001.001
|passage=And freely men confesse that this world’s spent,<br>When in the
Planets, and the firmament<br>They seeke so many new; they see that this<br>Is
crumbled out againe to his ATOMIES.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1641 | author= [Thomas Herbert (seaman)] | title=An Elegie upon the Death of Thomas, Earle of Strafford | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43397.0001.001 | page=6 | location=London
|passage=[...] praise thy _God,_<br>O be not selfe-conceited, least his
rod<br>Doe bruise thee into ATOMIES;}}
1. [en] A tiny being ; a very small person .
2. * [I]
3. * [page=71]
4. * [pages=331-332]
*** Etymology 2
[en] as _an atomy_.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A skeleton . [from 16th c.]
2. * [V]
3. * 1728 , [John Gay] , _[The Beggar's Opera] ,_ Dublin: George Risk _et al.,_ Act [nbsp] II, Scene [nbsp] 1, p. [nbsp] 67, <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004782096.0001.000 </sup>
4. *: I could not save him from those fleaing Rascals the Surgeons; and now, poor Man, he is among the OTAMYS [ _sic_ ] at _Surgeon's Hall_ .
5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1769 | author=w:Tobias Smollett | title=w:The History and Adventures of an Atom | location=London | publisher=Robinson and Roberts | volume=1 | page=2 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004833088.0001.001
|passage=I was now thrown into a violent perturbation of spirit; for I never
could behold an ATOMY without fear and trembling, even when I knew it was no
more than a composition of dry bones;}}
1. * [chapter=3]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1866 | author=w:Christina Rossetti | chapter=The Prince’s Progress | title= [The Prince's Progress and Other Poems] | url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b166949&view=1up&seq=29&q1=atomy | page=11 | publisher=Macmillan | location=London
|passage=The veriest ATOMY he looked,<br>With grimy fingers clutching and
crooked,<br>Tight skin, a nose all bony and hooked,<br>And a shaking, sharp,
suspicious way;}}
*** Etymology 3
From [en].
**** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Resembling a tiny particle; made up of tiny particles.
2. * [page=398]
3. * 1894 , [Richard Henry Savage] , _The Princess of Alaska,_ Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally, Book [nbsp] 2, Chapter [nbsp] 8, p. [nbsp] 235, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/princessalaska00savarich/page/234/mode/1up?q=atomy </sup>
4. *: [...] the ATOMY speck, hurled through space, which we mortals call the world!—
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1919 | author=w:George Rostrevor Hamilton | chapter=Thoughts | title=Escape and Fantasy: Poems | url=https://archive.org/details/escapefantasypoe00hamirich/page/19/mode/1up?q=atomy | page=19 | publisher=Macmillan | location=New York
|passage=Things that flit in the sky or creep<br>In the ATOMY dust, or swarm
in the deep,}}
***** See also
- [en]
*** References
References:
[1]. [John Bullokar] , _An English Expositer Teaching the Interpretation of the Hardest Words Vsed in our Language,_ London: John Legatt, 1616: “Atomie. A mote flying in the sunne. Any thing so small, that it cannot bee made lesse.” <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17230.0001.001 </sup>
[2]. [Robert Cawdrey] , _A Table Alphabeticall [...] of Hard Vsuall English Wordes,_ London: Edmund Weaver, 1609: “ _atomie,_ [...] a thing so small that it cannot bée deuided.” <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18267.0001.001 </sup>
** Polish
*** Pronunciation
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*** Noun
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