单词 | convalescence |
释义 | convalescencen. 1. a. Gradual recovery of health and strength after illness. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [noun] healingc1000 healc1175 coveringc1230 recovering1380 curinga1382 amendmenta1400 recoverancea1400 sanationc1440 refeting?a1450 mendingc1480 convalescence1490 recovery1533 amendsa1616 restoration1638 upsitting1647 convalescing1650 convalescency1651 reconvalescence1672 analepsis1749 invalescence1755 reformation1772 revalescence1823 pickupa1916 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) 149 Seeng his fader broughte vp ayen in good conualescence and helth. c1500 Melusine (1895) 179 In me was none hope of conualescence nor of lyf. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) V. 323 Sicknesse had enfeebled my body, but I have a convalescence. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell iii. 43 The Physitians hold there is no perfection of corporall health in this life, but a convalessence at best. 1779 S. Johnson Let. 8 Oct. (1992) III. 186 On Thursday..I ventured on my dinner, which I think has a little interrupted my convalescence. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvii. 269 He..had written to my mother, expressing his entire convalescence. 1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. II. 180 The slow days of convalescence wore away in the sea-port town. b. transferred. ΚΠ 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 278 The convalescence of Virginia agriculture. 2. Roman Law. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) ii. 283 The retroactive effect of the removal of an original impediment to the validity of a title is called the Convalescence of the title. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 149 If the legacy be to one who is not an heir,..Sabinus held it incapable of convalescence under the Neronian senatusconsult. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1490 |
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