| 释义 |
rejuvenescence|rɪdʒuːvɪˈnɛsɛns|
Also 7, 9 -iscence.
[f. as prec. + -ence.]
A renewal of youth, physical, mental, or spiritual. Also fig.
a1631Donne Serm. lxxix. 815 With a re-juveniscence a new and fresh youth. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. viii. 193 Whether Paracelsus and others deservedly call such accidents..a reall renovation or rejuvenescence. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. i. §2 (1734) 114 If this could be..effected, the Cure would be a true Rejuvenescence. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Dryden (1858) I. 285 The works of Chaucer, upon which this kind of rejuvenescence has been bestowed by Dryden, require little criticism. 1813W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXV. 426 To restore the circulation of our earlier classics produces, by infusion, a re⁓juvenescence of the language. 1875Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxxvi. (1877) 641 The Greek and Roman races..had lost..all power of intellectual rejuvenescence.
b. spec. in Biol. and Bot. The process by which a vegetative cell transforms itself into a new one.
1855Henfrey Micrographic Dict. s.v. Cell, Cell-formation also occurs, without division, in cases where the entire contents of a cell separate from the parent, and form a new organism (rejuvenescence). 1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 9 Hence the rejuvenescence of a cell..must be regarded morphologically as the formation of a new one. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. p. ix, It results in a simple ‘rejuvenescence’ of the conjugating individuals. |