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revulsion|rɪˈvʌlʃən|
Also 6–7 reuulsion, 6 revulsione, 7 -tion.
[a. F. révulsion (16th c., = Sp. revulsion, It. revulsione), or ad. L. revulsio, noun of action f. revellĕre: see revel v.2]
1. Med. The action or practice of diminishing a morbid condition in one part of the body by operating or acting upon another. (Cf. derivation 1 c.)
1541Copland Galyen's Terap. Gg iij, Yf the fluxyon be impetuous & great we shal make reuulsion in the contrary partyes. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 40 b/1 As oftentimes as we desire to make any derivatione, revulsione, interceptione or evacuatione of anye matter. 1643J. Steer tr. Exp. Chyrurg. v. 19 Let there be used..blood-letting, cupping, and other revultions. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iv. 123 When a Loosness is cured by the use of a Bath, it is cured by revulsion. c1720Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. iii. (1738) 9 This Method of Revulsion has been safely practised among all Physicians. 1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 121 Her Throat had well nigh choaked her (notwithstanding the Revulsion of the Humour caused by the Blisters). 1833Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 524/1 Derivation or revulsion is often found to occur independently of any artificial excitation. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 558 The process being called revulsion, or counter-irritation.
2. The action of drawing, or the fact of being drawn, back or away. In later use only fig.
1609J. Davies Holy Roode cvii, That Head..vpon whose Crowne Depends the highest Heau'ns resplendant Roofe, By whose reuulsion It would soone fall downe. 1661Boyle Examen (1682) 92 The repeated impulse and revulsion of the Sucker. 1687Rycaut Hist. Turks II. 91 There necessarily followed a Revulsion of the Forces from Dalmatia. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ., Remise Door, The blood and spirits, which had suffered a revulsion from her, crouded back to her. 1776Adam Smith W.N. iv. vii. (1904) II. 216 Thrown out of employment by the revulsion of capital from other trades. 1850Gladstone Glean. (1879) II. 106 For common speculative liberalism..he had a contempt as energetic even as his revulsion from theology.
†3. Recovery, restoration. Obs. rare—1.
c1760in Etoniana (1865) 74 One of his..pupils speaks of the ‘revulsion’ of the fame of Eton ‘owing to his able.. administration’.
4. A sudden violent change of feeling; a strong reaction in sentiment or taste.
1816Scott Old Mort. xxxiv, The transition from the verge of the grave to a prospect of life had occasioned a dizzy revulsion in his whole system. 1853Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 289 There comes a natural revulsion from the baldness and puerility into which Wordsworth too often fell. 1867Freeman Hist. Ess. (1871) Ser. I. iii. 55 The cause of this strange..direction of popular feeling is to be found in a sort of generous revulsion of sentiment.
5. A sudden reaction or reverse tendency in trade, fortune, etc.
1812Southey Ess. (1832) I. 147 To grow up..while the trade flourishes, and to be thrown out of employ..when it meets with any sudden revulsion. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. xiv. 321 In that great revulsion of fortune, the Archbishop was consigned to the hands of his old Sectarian. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. II. 195 A state of business which, when pushed to an extreme length, brings on the revulsion called a commercial crisis.
Hence reˈvulsionary a.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 298 That the tenet is not to be placed among the revulsionary results of the Scripture-slighting will-worship of the Romish Church. 1900F. T. Bullen Idylls of the Sea 248 Recovering from that revulsionary paroxysm, all hands rushed upon the retreating mass. |