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insolation|ɪnsəʊˈleɪʃən|
[ad. L. insōlātiōn-em, n. of action from insōlāre: see prec.]
The action of placing in the sun; exposure to the sun's rays; sometimes (in mod. use) the action or effect of the sun's rays on a body exposed to them.
1. In general sense. (In quot. 1654, Exposure to daylight, or to the public view.)
1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 118 Nature it self, in acts of such uncleannesse..declineth insolation and open view. 1665Beale in Boyle's Wks. VI. 394, I am almost become confident, that one of my thermometers by such insolation, as may be had in England from our stone walls, hath lost some inches of liquor. 1878in Sir E. Reed Japan (1880) I. 8 The vegetation now begins to develop under a powerful insolation. 1885Gardener's Chron. XXIII. 372 No where else is the effect of insolation more distinctly observed than in the Arctic regions.
2. In specific senses.
a. Exposure of some substance to the sun's rays, as for the purpose of drying, bleaching, or maturing.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 272 Insolation is the preparation of simple or compound things by the heat of Sun in the Summer, or a gentle fire in the Winter. 1675Evelyn Terra (1729) 41 Expose it for Insolation a Week or ten Days. 1706Phil. Trans. XXV. 2265 Divers ways of making Salt from Sea-Water; first by insolation only, as Bay Salt. 1886Syd. Soc. Lex., Insolation..In Pharmacy, the drying of substances in the rays of the sun; also, the blanching or bleaching of substances by the same means.
b. Medical treatment by exposure of the body to the sun's rays.
a1626Bacon New Atl. (1631) 32 We vse these Towers, according to their seuerall Heights, and Situations, for Insolation, Refrigeration, Conseruation. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 174 The dry [bath]; such as Insolation, or being exposed to the heat of the sun. 1886Syd. Soc. Lex., Insolation..In Medicine, exposure to the sun's rays as a means of cure.
c. Injurious exposure (of animals or plants) to the sun's rays or to excessive heat; also, disease thus caused: (a) sunstroke; (b) = heliosis 2.
1758W. Battie Madness vii. 47 One case of Consequential Madness..is an effect of Insolation, or what the French call coup du Soleil. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 680 Such fever seems less attributable to the reflux of bile into the blood, than to the insolation or solar excitement. 1885Century Mag. XXIX. 661 Disabled in the deserts by insolation produced by excessive heat. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 499 In thermic fever or insolation the object is to reduce the temperature. 1898P. Manson Trop. Dis. xii. 205 Those loosely used terms, sun-stroke, heat-stroke, coup de soleil, insolation. |