单词 | adure |
释义 | † adurev. Obsolete. transitive and intransitive. To burn (something) completely; to scorch, parch. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > become parched scorkenc1175 adure?1440 parch1530 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)] > burn to ashes to burn to, into (formerly also in) ashesc1175 to burn to powderc1175 adust?a1425 incinerate1555 adure1583 cinder1628 calcine1633 cinefy1654 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ii. l. 354 (MED) Their roote vncutte..plaunte in..ox donge..And askis with, the hete apart to putte Of donge..lest hit adure [L. aduratur] and lette. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 7 Not mounting ouer hy lest he inflame ye heauens, nor drowping ouer low lest he adure the earth. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke §3, 22/1 Flea a little Mouse, take the intestines..adure them in a piptken. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 93 It adureth the blood. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §319 Such a degree of Heat..doth Mellow, and not Adure. 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. ii. xiii. 343 Those that state the Sun the efficient cause of the said saltish particles, broyling and aduring those exhalations contained with the body of the waters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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