| 释义 |
spongious, a. Now rare.|ˈspʌndʒɪəs|
Also 5 spongyouse, 6 -yous, -ius, -iouse, 7–8 spungious.
[ad. L. spongiōsus (see spongiose a.). Cf. F. spongieux, † espongieux, It. spugnoso, Sp. esponjoso.]
1. Of the nature of a sponge; spongy.
Very common c 1550–1700.
αc1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 108 Þei [bones] ben sumwhat spongious [v.r. spongyouse] in þe myddis. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. xv. 60 Uvula (as the Anatomystes say) is a spongyous membre. 1597Gerarde Herbal i. xxiv. 35 They are full stuft with a spongious substance. 1652French Yorksh. Spa vii. 70 The ground..is spongious, and drinks in water apace. 1678R. Russell tr. Geber ii. i. 98 Solid Woods give a strong Fire, spongious a weak. 1709Phil. Trans. XXVII. 121 There are several spongious Laminæ which arise from its lower part. 1778Ibid. LXVIII. 672 In the spongious bones of the upper jaw. 1825Examiner 732/2 Soft, fluid, porous, spongious, but withal tenacious matter. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. ii, He came up to me..with a piece of spongious coralline.
β1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xii. 245 In weight it is diminished five partes of that it was, and is spungious. 1657Heylin Ecclesia Vind. 177 An oake..which was of an hollow or spungious body. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 236 This Caries more commonly attacks those Bones that are Spungious.
2. Of or pertaining to a sponge.
1846Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. 196 Of a..spongious texture. 1851G. F. Richardson Geol. 214 Many of the moss agates are of spongious origin.
Hence † ˈspongiousness, sponginess. Obs.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 37 b/1 The fleshe in that place is not of such a crassitude and spongiousnes as in the ioyncte. 1611Cotgr., Spongiosité, spunginesse, or spungiousnesse; a spungie lightnesse. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Spongiousness, Spunginess. |