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incurvation|ɪnkɜːˈveɪʃən|
[ad. L. incurvātiōn-em, n. of action from incurvāre to incurve.]
1. The action or process of bringing into or assuming a curved form; curving, bending; with pl. an instance of this.
1608Hieron Defence iii. 156 All incurvation and bowing of the body unto Images. 1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xxi. v, That so stiffens the knees of Mordecai that death is more easie to him then their incurvation. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. v. ii. 326 Firmly braced with Muscles and Tendons, for easy incurvations of the Body. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) I. vii. 152 The incurvation or bending of a ray of light, incident on such a surface.
†b. spec. Bowing in reverence or worship. Obs.
1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. ii. v. 7 Must incurvation towards the East be still continued? 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. i. xi. 36 Thou shalt not doe the service of Incurvation, nor any other Religious service to them. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. ii. (1852) 48 It is a peice of cabalistical magic to make an incurvation at the sound of this name.
2. The condition of being bent; curved formation, curvature; an instance of this, a curve or bend.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. App. lxxxv, How can the suns rays that be transmisse Through these loose knots in Comets, well expresse Their beards or curld tayls utmost incurvation? 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iii. iv. (1715) 42 The Incurvation of the Scythian Bow, which..was so great as to form a Half-Moon. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 222 In the incurvation of the spine. 1802–3tr. Pallas's Trav. (1812) I. 179 Extending nearly in a straight line..without following the incurvations. 1885G. L. Goodale Phys. Bot. (1892) 346 The incurvation [of the leaf] lasts for only a day or two.
fig.1660Fuller Mixt Contempl. (1841) 168 Some will say that the weight of heavy taxes have caused this crookedness..Our mutual malice and animosities..have caused this incurvation. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. ii. 172 note, The incurvations of practice are then the most notorious, when compared with the rectitude of the rule.
3. A curving inwards, or the condition of being curved inwards.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 58 It [whitlow] is also occasioned by an incurvation of the nails. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 202 Bulbous enlargement of the ends of the fingers, with incurvation of the nails, forming what are called clubbed fingers. 1875Darwin Insectiv. Pl. xvi. 372 There was decided incurvation. |