Obs. Also camerine. [f. Camarīna (Καμάρῑνα), the name of a Sicilian town, beside which was a pestilential marsh.] A fetid marsh or swamp. Also fig.
1576. Newton, trans. Lemnie’s Complex., To Rdr. This Author … doth not onely … wade into the very Gulph and Camarine of Mans apparant wilfulnesse.
1617. S. Collins, Def. Bp. Elie, 454. And doe wee meruaile now, if King Henry voyded such a Camarine?
1681. P. Rycaut, trans. Gracian’s Critick, 163. The danger of poisonous Sents, and Camerines of Customs, which use to envenome and infect the Soul.
