| 释义 |
† colliquation Obs.|kɒlɪˈkweɪʃən|
[a. F. colliquation (Paré): cf. prec. and -ation. L. had liquātiōn-em.]
1. The action or process of melting together.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 269 Colliquation, or Colliquefaction, is the conjunction of many fusils or liquables to make one compound by eliquation on the fire. 1667Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. 54 When Sand and Ashes are well melted together..there is generated by the colliquation that sort of Concretion we call Glasse. 1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Voc., Colliquation, a melting together.
2. The action or process of making or of becoming liquid; reduction to (or towards) the consistence of a liquid; the state of being so reduced; melting, fusion.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. vii. §4 Fire is the cause of colliquation but respectiue to waxe. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. i. 51 That which is coagulated by a fiery siccity, will suffer colliquation from an aqueous humidity.
fig.a1631Donne Serm. cxviii. V. 90 This..colliquation of the inwardest bowels of his soul. 1744Armstrong Preserv. Health iv. 393 The colliquation of soft joys.
3. spec. in Old Phys. and Path.
a. ‘The melting down or solution of solid parts, as in an abscess; the excessive fluidification of the humours of the body, esp. the blood’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1662H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar v. 82 These Rheums have been encreased by a colliquation of the humours. 1693J. Beaumont On Burnet's Th. Earth i. 6 The tainted parts, as in Bodies ulcerated..bringing the rest to a general Colliquation. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 50 The Colliquation and Substraction of the Humours.
b. The wasting away of the solid parts of the body; consumption.
1601Holland Pliny xxii. xxiii. II. 134 For colliquations and such as are..far gone in a consumption. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. ii. v. 82 The colliquation or wasting of the kidneyes. 1651Biggs New Disp. 85 The colliquation of our bodie, and stealing away our strength. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 157 For..great colliquation..these waters are not found beneficial.
c. concr. A product of liquefaction or solution.
1615Crooke Body of Man 278 Much lesse is it a Colliquation. For a Colliquation is a thing beside Nature. |