rare. [L.] lit. Household furniture; fig. the equipment or apparatus for an experiment or operation.
1553. Bradford, Serm. Repent., To Chr. Rdr. Knowing how short my supellex and store is [ed. 1574 how slender my store is].
a. 1697. Aubrey, Lives (1898), I. 9. The way to make it [sc. astrology] perfect is to get a supellex of true genitures.
1794. Kirwan, Elem. Min. (ed. 2), I. 40. This solid therefore should make part of the mineralogical supellex.
1885. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 523/1. His supellex consisted of the iron pot aforesaid, and a hollow bamboo for water.
