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subitaneous, a.|sʌbɪˈteɪnɪəs|
[f. L. subitān-eus sudden (f. subitus subite) + -ous.]
a. Sudden, hasty, unexpected; hastily produced or constructed. Now rare.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋196 The argument of curing by the subitaneous precipitancy of cold. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. vii. 248 Some are Subitaneous, the Product of 24 Hours. 1751Chambers' Cycl. s.v. Bridge, The Romans had also a sort of subitaneous bridges made by the soldiers, of boats [etc.]. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloas' Voy. (ed. 3) I. 213 This almost subitaneous death of a person in the flower of his age. 1778Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 111/2 The rain waters, the subterraneous cavities, the absorptions, and sometimes more subitaneous agents, have made great ruins. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 304 He never either grieves or rejoices, nor wills, nor is averse to any thing subitaneous. 1892‘Dick Donovan’ In Grip of Law 246 The subitaneous clanging of a heavy bell.
b. Biol. Of the egg of a small aquatic invertebrate: hatching soon after it is laid. Cf. resting egg s.v. resting ppl. a. 1 b.
1950Adv. Genetics III. 240 From the fertilized eggs (the ephippial eggs) there emerge, after a shorter or longer resting period, exclusively females, the eggs of which (the subitaneous eggs) develop parthenogenetically in the brood chamber of the female. 1979Nature 30 Aug. 722/1 Both quick-hatching (subitaneous) and resting eggs are produced but neither kind was believed to be fertilised, though in Chaetonotus two types of subitaneous egg have been reported.
Hence † subiˈtaneousness.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Subitaneousness,..Suddenness. |