| 释义 |
riˈgidify, v.
[f. rigid a. + -ify.]
a. trans. To make rigid.
b. intr. To become rigid.
1842J. Cairns Let. in Life (1895) 137 The muscles of the mind..are rigidified by frost and unstrung by heat. 1879Baring-Gould Germany I. 300 Education restrains, rigidifies the organ of voice. Ibid. 301 The muscles rigidify. 1920A. S. Eddington Space, Time & Gravitation ii. 39 If a substantial aether analogous to a material ocean exists, it must rigidify, as it were, a definite space. 1942Nature 14 Nov. 564/1 If we conceptually rigidify such a system into a definite formal scheme, we can think of it as a set of alternative canalized paths. 1961B. R. Wilson Sects & Society 1 The sect..seeks itself to rigidify a pattern of behaviour. 1973P. Evans Bodyguard Man ii. 23 Rigor mortis had already begun to rigidify the cells. 1979Nature 16 Aug. 538/3 The slightly enhanced ‘mobility’ of the substrate binding area is intriguing, in particular, if it were to be found that these segments ‘rigidify’ on substrate binding. 1981Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 202/1 Now he [sc. A. Goehr] is assumed, as a Cambridge professor, to be rigidifying in the academy.
Hence riˈgidified ppl. a. (chiefly in pred. use); riˈgidifier.
1912J. Galsworthy in Daily Mail 27 May 4/4 Which of us does not know the deflecting power of trusteeship, rigidified, as it is, by law? 1956J. S. Bruner et al. Study of Thinking v. 128 One could begin either way—adopting either a part or a whole hypothesis—and arrive at the same conclusion provided one did not become rigidified before the process of proof was completed. 1968Listener 21 Mar. 365/2 In literature, some artists are naturally rigidifiers and others naturally moulders. 1977T. Berger Who is Teddy Villanova? i. 6, I am, with expanded chest and rigidified tendons, just..five feet ten. |