| 释义 |
sponginess|ˈspʌndʒɪnɪs|
Also 7–8 spunginess.
[f. spongy a. + -ness.]
1. Spongy or porous character, nature, or quality.
α1610Markham Masterp. i. lxiv. 134 It through the sponginesse is apt to sucke in all manner of filth. 1659H. More Immort. Soul ii. ix. 214 The sponginess & laxness of the Brain. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 603 In what the soil extracts from the stream by its sponginess. 1836–41Brande Chem. (ed. 5) 512 Animal Charcoal..often has a peculiar lustre and sponginess. 1883J. Millington Are we to read backwards? 76 The paper should be..free from sponginess.
β1611Florio, Móllo,..the soft or spunginesse of any thing, as of crummes of bread. 1707Mortimer Husbandry (1721) II. 20 Because of its spunginess the Rain easily penetrates. 1788Med. Comm. II. 209 A spunginess..of the membrane.
b. fig. and transf.
a1631Donne Serm. cii. Wks. 1839 IV. 370 For this plurality..of Sin hath first found a Sponginess in the Soule. 1670Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 666 We must have all that looseness and spunginess of our hearts removed. 1852Mundy Antipodes (1857) 29 The size and sponginess of the two Sydney butchers.
2. Path. The characteristic soft fungous condition of the gums in scurvy.
1873F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. 824 Sponginess of the gums with tendency to bleed, and rapid destruction of the teeth are frequently noticed. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 158 It..frequently begins with a simple sponginess of gums. |