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单词 colluvies
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colluviesn.

/kəˈl(j)uːvɪiːz/
Etymology: < Latin colluviēs (also colluvio, colluvium) lit. ‘offscourings, washings, swillings’, < colluĕre to wash thoroughly, rinse.
1. Chiefly Medicine. A collection or gathering of filth or foul matter; spec. foul discharge from an ulcer.
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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.).
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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.)
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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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