单词 | cauterize |
释义 | cauterizev. 1. a. Medicine. transitive. To burn or sear with a hot iron or a caustic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > cauterizing > cauterize [verb (transitive)] brandc1440 sear1482 burn1483 cauterize?1541 cauterizate1576 to sear up1602 singe1627 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > treat by topical applications [verb (transitive)] > treat with corrosive or caustic corsie1574 corrosive1581 cauterize1800 caustic1852 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Qj After that they be cauterised ye must apply on the sayd places oyle of Roses. 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man i. iii. sig. C2v Old festred sores Must be lanc'd to the quicke and cauteriz'd. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 283. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 340 The acetic acid..is..so caustic, that it corrodes and cauterizes the skin. 1865 Public Opinion 28 Jan. 96 The boy's wound was cauterized and he is doing well. b. absol. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > cauterizing > cauterize [verb (intransitive)] cauterize1563 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 77 Thys water..wyl cauterise like an whote yron. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 82 Whether he cauterise or foment,..he is the same Physitian. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on > burn flesh with a hot iron brandc1440 seara1529 cauterize1591 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Cauterizado Marked with a hot yron, or cauterised. a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) ii. vi. 241 Fugitive Slaves are marked and cauterized with burning Irons. 3. figurative. To ‘sear’, deaden, render insensible (the conscience, feelings, etc.). In allusion to 1 Timothy iv. 2 κεκαυτηριασμένων τὴν ἰδίαν συνείδησιν ‘having their conscience seared with a hot iron’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > make hard or callous hardc1325 hardenc1350 engrege1382 endurec1384 indurec1450 indurate1538 obduratea1540 brawn1571 hard heart1581 sear1582 cauterize1587 myrmidonize1593 obdure1598 Gorgonize1609 stonea1616 petrifya1631 petrificate1647 roborate1652 case-harden1687 ossify1803 hard-boil1929 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 117/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II His conscience was so cauterised. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 93 Hypocrites; which are euer Handling Holy Things, but without Feeling. So as they must needs be cauterized in the End. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 141 When once conscience is by frequent repetition of sins, cauterised, dispirited, and made senselesse. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xxxix. 162 Custom soon cauterizes human sympathy. 1874 E. B. Pusey Lenten Serm. 139 The true conscience, untill it is cauterised, will..rebel against the false. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.?1541 |
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