单词 | colluvies |
释义 | colluviesn. 1. Chiefly Medicine. A collection or gathering of filth or foul matter; spec. foul discharge from an ulcer. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > pus or matter wursomeOE yousterc725 warec1175 quittorc1300 corrumpciona1340 humour1340 atter1398 mattera1400 pus?a1425 filthiness1525 corruption1526 filth1561 gear1562 sanies1562 baggage1576 purulence1598 suppuration1601 lye1615 congestion1634 colluvies1651 collution1657 colloid1849 purulage1898 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 73 The aforesaid Colluvies of the remaining humours. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 277 They..stuff up the Lungs with a greater Colluvies of Recrements. 1811 in R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.) 1881 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 2. Conflux (of waters, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] > collision or flowing together conflux1609 corrivation1621 colluvies1666 1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 305 He pretends that all Rivers proceed from a Colluvies or Rendevous of Rain-waters. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. IX Colluvies, a term which..writers on the universal deluge have applied to the fluid mass into which..the strata of the antediluvian earth were dissolved. 3. figurative. Medley, rabble, hotchpotch. (So in Latin.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a confused assemblage or mixture mishmashc1475 rabblement1539 mingle-mangle1549 bumble broth1572 bumble-bath1595 mash1601 colluvies1647 bumble1648 farrago1650 higgledy-piggledy1659 jumble1661 farrage1698 tumble1755 pie1837 Sargasso Sea1855 wirrwarra1866 chop suey1888 dog's breakfast1892 dog's dinner1902 sargasso1934 paella1939 1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική Ep. Ded. 11 A colluvies of Heresies. 1657 S. Clarke Mirrour for Saints & Sinners (ed. 3) xi. 45 A colluvies of most filthy lecherous people. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Livy in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 460 Hannibal..having a mixt colluvies of all Nations under him. 1730 A. Pope Corr. 11 Sept. (1956) III. 131 From the midst of the Colluvies and Sink of Human Greatness at W——r. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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