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Caput mortuum (Latin for 'dead head', and
variously spelled caput mortum or
caput mortem), also
known as
cardinal purple, is the name
given to a purple...
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Caput mortuum (plural
capita mortua;
literally "dead head") is a
Latin term used in
alchemy to
signify a
useless substance left over from a
chemical operation...
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article presents the
complete oeuvre of
Dutch multi-instrumentalist and
composer Maurice de Jong,
including his work as a band
member and collaborating...
- for the
masculine and
neuter forms. For example, for mortuus, mortua,
mortuum 'dead',
mortua is
declined like a
regular first-declension noun (such as...
- when
ground co****ly,
makes a
purple pigment. One such
pigment is
caput mortuum,
whose name is also used in
reference to
mummy brown. The
latter is another...
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Mummy brown, also
known as
Egyptian brown or
Caput Mortuum,: 254 was a rich
brown bituminous pigment with good transparency,
sitting between burnt umber...
- as
mummy brown,
based on
mummia (sometimes
called alternatively caput mortuum,
Latin for death's head),
which was
originally obtained by
grinding human...
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names for the
mineral when used in
painting include colcotar and
caput mortuum. In Spanish, it is
called almagre or almagra, from the
Arabic al-maghrah...
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Years active 1992–present
Labels Barbarian Wrath Members Orlok, Valgard,
Mortüüm, Häxa Past
members Othalaz, Vercingetorix, Zénon, Imogem, Warhead, Zagan...
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shorter form
appears in John Locke's Two
Treatises of Government)
caput mortuum dead head
Originally an
alchemical reference to the dead head or worthless...
