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单词 ingress
释义 I. ingress, n.|ˈɪngrɛs|
[ad. L. ingress-us entering, entrance, f. ppl. stem of ingredī to go in, enter, f. in- (in-2) + gradī to step, go.]
1. The action or fact of going in or entering. Also, Capacity or right of entrance, esp. in legal phr. ingress, egress, and regress.
1543–4Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 10 To haue free ingresse egresse and regresse in to all suche places.1578Banister Hist. Man i. 22 The holes ordayned for the exiture of the Nerues, and ingresse of the vessels of nourishment.1607Rogers 39 Art. Pref. (1854) 22 Within a year, and little more, after his happy ingress into this kingdom.1684Boyle Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod. vii. 111 Nor is Sulphur the only consistent Body that has this ingress into Metals; for we have found them penetrable by prepared Arsenic.1767Blackstone Comm. II. ix. 146 The tenant shall have..free ingress, egress, and regress, to cut and carry away the profits.1818Scott Hrt. Midl. vi, A small fee to the keepers would..procure egress and ingress at any time.1851–6Woodward Mollusca 31 The animal has apparently occupied its shell, and prevented the ingress of mud.
b. A place or means of entrance; an entrance.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 964 Honge hit in thy yatis and ingresse Of hous or toun.1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peirese II. 13 The Tower of Buquia..stands at the ingress of the Martigian Coast.1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 4 Running water must force an egress for itself, and, consequently, an ingress for the reader and myself.
c. More fully ingress-money: A payment on entrance into a society, college, etc.; an entrance fee.
1607in Hist. Wakefield Gram. Sch. (1892) 66 Assigninge unto him the whole ingress money of all such as shall be entred schollers under him.1656in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 101 Rd from Benefactors, Materials, Ingresses, &c. {pstlg}3650. 10. 11.1886Ibid. I. 97 From a list of ‘Ingresses received’ we learn that Mr. Watts occupied ‘the corner chamber next King's College Chapel’.
2. The action of entering upon or beginning a thing; a beginning, an attempt; also, The commencement of an action, period, etc. arch.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 274 Til October from thyn, gresse of this mone, Is coriaunder sowe in fatty lond.1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 1 In the ingress of this foresaid story.a1610Healey Cebes (1636) 141 They have forgotten the instruction that Lifes genius gave them at their ingresse.1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 147 Before I shall touch upon the main, I will make an Ingresse to treat of such matters whereby [etc.].1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 146 Since then she comes Oft..at the season's ingresses.
3. a. Astrol. The arrival of a planet at that part of the heaven occupied by another planet, or at the ascendant, or the mid-heaven. b. Astron. The entrance of the sun into a sign of the zodiac. ? Obs. c. The first contact of an inferior planet with the sun, or of a satellite with its planet, at a transit.
a.1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1304 They solemnize a feast in the new Moone of the moneth Phamenoth, which they call The ingresse or entrance of Osiris to the Moone.1819J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. 359–60 Active ingresses are those wherein the active stars operate by coming to the places of the significator; and passive ingresses are those wherein the passive stars come to the places of the promittors.
b.1652Gaule Magastrom. xxvi. I iv a, It is unpossible to finde out the true ingresse of the Sunne into the æquinoctiall points.1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 47 At the Sun's ingress into the Sign Leo.1726tr. Gregory's Astron. I. 225 The beginning of the Day and Night falls upon the Sun's Ingress into the Equinoctial Points.
c.1751Phil. Trans. XLVII. 160 The whole matter was..to find her [Venus] out a little before her ingress.1812Woodhouse Astron. xxxviii. 378 Instead of observing the mere ingress, they observe the duration of the transit.1867–77G. F. Chambers Astron. 916. 1868 Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 479.
II. inˈgress, v. rare.
[f. ppl. stem of L. ingredī to enter: see prec.]
1. intr. To enter, go in. Now U.S.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 7982 So lyoun doth on dere ingress.a1817Dwight cited by Worcester.1963V. Nabokov Gift iii. 178 Boris Ivanovich, horribly smiling, squeezed sideways into the room..then, ingressing entirely, he would shut the door tightly behind him and sit by Fyodor's feet.1970N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon Gloss. p. xii, Ingress, to enter the spacecraft.
2. trans. To enter, invade; spec. ‘to go in to’ carnally. Obs.
a1631Donne To C'tess Bedford Poems, etc. (1633) 89 Yet he as hee bounds seas, will fixe your houres, [Which] pleasure, and delight may not ingresse.Progr. Soul xxi. ibid. 11 Men, till they tooke laws which made freedome lesse, Their daughters, and their sisters did ingresse, Till now unlawfull, therefore ill.
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