| 释义 |
inaˈnitiate, v.
[A back-formation from inanitiation, ineptly formed in French by Chossat, from inanition: Littré points out that the proper French form would be inanisation. In English Dictionaries from Dunglison; but not in Eng. use.]
trans. ‘To affect with inanition; to exhaust for want of nourishment’. So inanitiˈation [see above], ‘Chossat's term for the gradual passage of the animal body into a state the end of which is Inanition’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886).
1857Dunglison Med. Lex. 492 Inanitiation,..The act of being exhausted for want of nourishment. One so exhausted is said to be inanitiated. (Hence in Ogilvie and later Dicts.) |