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▪ I. † ˈirrigate, ppl. a. Obs.
In 5 irrigat.
[ad. L. irrigāt-us, pa. pple. of irrigāre to irrigate.]
Irrigated, watered.
a1412Lydg. Two Merchants 24 But yeer by yeer the soil is irrigat, And ouyrflowyd with the flood of Nyle.
▪ II. irrigate, v.|ˈɪrɪgeɪt|
[f. L. irrigāt-, ppl. stem of irrigāre to lead water to, to water, f. ir- (ir-1) + rigāre to wet, moisten, water.]
1. trans. To supply with moisture; to moisten, wet. (Now rare in the general sense, and regarded as transf. from 2 a.)
1615Crooke Body of Man 285 The thirde vse is to irrigate or moysten the sides of the wombe. 1688Boyle Final Causes Nat. Things iv. 158 Not that they think the blood..unfit to irrigate the parts with that vital liquor. 1708J. Philips Cyder ii. 65 With which..to irrigate Their dry-furr'd Tongues. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 3 Only the larger bronchi are irrigated by the bronchial arteries.
2. spec.
a. To supply (land) with water by means of channels or streams passing through it; also said of such channels or streams (natural or artificial); to water. (The prevailing sense.)
1623Cockeram, Irrigate, to water ground, or so. 1706Phillips s.v., A Country irrigated by several fine Rivers. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. iv. 180 The orchard..and garden ground..were irrigated by the waters of a small mountain-rill which were collected and led down in front of the house by an artificial canal. 1852Conybeare & Howson St. Paul (1862) I. x. 332 Its waters still irrigate the suburban gardens of the Athenians. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 37 The country was..artificially irrigated by a network of canals.
b. Med. To supply (a part, a wound, etc.) with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting.
1876Clin. Soc. Trans. IX. 123 Stuffed with sponges, and sutures left unfastened for three hours, during which time it was irrigated with carbolic acid.
3. fig. To refresh or make fruitful as with a supply of moisture.
1686A. Horneck Crucif. Jesus xiii. 276 The wine of angels..inebriates their understandings, irrigates the spirits of men made perfect. 1823Byron Juan xiii. v, But then they have their claret and Madeira To irrigate the dryness of decline. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life x. iii. (1875) 352 Her mind irrigated their minds, which would have remained permanently barren without that help and refreshment.
4. intr. To drink; to take a drink. slang (chiefly U.S.).
1856‘J. Phoenix’ Phœnixiana 104 [He] was invited by the urbane proprietor to irrigate. c1880in Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) II. App. 975 ‘Stranger, do you irrigate?’ ‘If you mean drink, sir, I do not.’ 1905A. Adams Outlet xxi. 298 Sponsilier..called every one to the bar to irrigate. 1911E. M. Clowes On Wallaby viii. 202 There was even a further decrease in drunkenness, people having no money, I suppose, for what out here [sc. Victoria] they call ‘irrigating’.
Hence ˈirrigated, ˈirrigating ppl. adjs.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 287 The earth becomes again satiated by irrigating showers. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 353 Irrigated pasture, or best water meadow. 1892Athenæum 30 July 153/3 He..set them to work digging an irrigating canal. 1895Westm. Gaz. 1 July 1/3 The fertilising and irrigating effect which the Darwinian hypothesis has exercised in all departments of contemporary thought. |