单词 | corrosive |
释义 | corrosiveadj.n. A. adj. Having the quality of corroding. 1. Having the quality of eating away or consuming by chemical action: said of acids, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > corroded > corrosive corrosivec1386 cankeringa1450 succorrosive?1541 caustic1555 corsive1576 mordant1601 corroding1605 corrodiating1640 diabrotic1775 ardent1799 corrodent1835 aggressive1888 the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > acids > [adjective] > relating to acids general > corrosive properties corrosivec1386 corsive1576 diabrotic1775 corrodent1835 c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 300 Of watres corosif [v.r. coresif] and of lymayle. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy Adm., in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 190 Waters corrosyve and waters Ardent. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiv. i. 354 Waters corosiue..waters of albification, [etc.]. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1667 (1955) III. 495 The corrosive aire of London. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. iii. v. 311 Quicklime and oil of vitriol..exercise a powerful corrosive action on both animal and vegetable substances. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 July 9/1 You were sentenced for throwing corrosive fluid over your..wife. 2. Having the quality of eating away or destroying organic tissue: a. said of diseases, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > alteration of tissue > decomposition or destruction corrosivec1400 melting1605 undermined1844 attritional1849 saprogenic1876 saprogenous1876 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 78 Avicen seiþ þæt þer ben .vi. maner of þis ulcus..summe corosif. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Djv Impostumes and other corosyve sores. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 401 To heal the scarr of these corrosive Fires. View more context for this quotation 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 439 Corrosive Ulcers, and spreading Cankers. 1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 316 Violent corrosive poisons. 1877 A. C. Swinburne Note C. Brontë 37 It is a radical and mortal plague-spot, corrosive and incurable. b. Medicine. Said of medicinal agents or preparations: Caustic, escharotic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > corrosive or caustic > [adjective] corrosivec1400 adustive?a1425 mortifying?a1425 caustic1555 ustive1598 corrodent1599 escharotic1628 catheretic1634 pyrotic1634 catheretical1638 escharotical1651 calcineous1660 caustical1676 phagedaenic1702 phagedaenical1725 diabrotic1775 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 214 Þis þou myȝt do with a medicyne corosif, save an hoot iren is bettere. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1859) i. xxxi. 35 A plaister corosyf. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance x. f. 19v Lyke good surgeons..with corrosyue and sharpe medicines, to drawe out the festred and stynkynge cores. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. clvi. 460 The medicines are either corrosiue, putrifactiue, or caustick. 1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 2 May (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1720 Not by taking anything corrosive to make you lean. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. vi. 48 Some Saint-John's corrosive mixture. 3. figurative (a) Destructive, consuming, wasting; (b) fretting, wearing to the mind or feelings. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > [adjective] > causing worry corrosive1581 baiting1585 fretful1737 worrying1826 worrisome1845 worriting1845 fidgety1885 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 166 Vnlawfull and corrosiue maintenaunce. a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi. 13 There ariseth..a pensive and corrosive desire, that we had done otherwise. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 32 Ills corrosive, Cares importunate. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. xi. 283 That torpid, but corrosive rest which is the greatest of evils. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. x. 254 The most corrosive woe. 1888 Amer. Humorist 5 May 14/2 The face of nature as it is before the corrosive hand of civilization sweeps across it. B. n. 1. A substance that corrodes by chemical action; an acid or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > corrosion > substance that causes corrosion corrosive1471 eater1610 diabrotic1775 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy Adm., in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 191 Oyles with Corrosyves Imade. 1616 F. Anthonie (title) Apologie or..Gold..made Potable and Medicinable without Corrosives. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 222 A corrosive, compounded of one-third of tartar and two-thirds of nitre. 2. a. Medicine. A corrosive drug, remedy, etc.; a caustic, escharotic, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > corrosive or caustic > [noun] potential cauterya1400 corrosivec1400 corsiec1450 caustic1582 corsive1593 corrodent1614 pyrotic1634 escharotic1655 scarotique1673 cautery1689 diabrotic1775 caustic arrow1860 catheretic1887 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 349 Corosivis & cauterizativis we usiþ in cirurgie in manie causis. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 160 Black Hellebor..menged with Corrosiues. 1767 R. Jago Edge-hill iii. (R.) As sharp corrosives to the schirrous flesh. 1830 R. Christison Treat. Poisons i. i. 2 Many of these irritants, such as arsenic, are in common speech called corrosives. b. Applied to condiments having a sharp or pungent taste. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > acid or tart flavouring > [noun] souring14.. corrosive1707 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 82 The hot Tastes in our Diet..such are the Acrid or Corrosives, as Mustard and Garlick; the Aromatics as Ginger. Thesaurus » a. Something that ‘frets’ or causes care or annoyance; a grief, annoyance. b. A sharp or caustic remedy (cf. A. 2). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > remedy > sharp corsiec1450 corrosivec1550 corsive1564 α. β. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 282 b This is the Popes best corrizive wherewith he eateth out the canker of controversies.1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 27 That..their fathers faults [should be] a continuall corrisiue.γ. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 35 I was halfe perswaded that they [sc. women]..would be comforters, but now I see they..will be corasiues.1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. C3v In thinges past cure, care is a corrasiue.1631 E. Pellham Gods Power 23 What a cutting Corasive it would be to them, to heare of the untimely deaths of their children.1658 T. Wall God's Revenge 43 What a corrasive..to the penitent soul of David, to hear Nathan say, Thou hast made the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme.c1550 J. Ramsey (title) A Carosyfe to be layed hard unto the Hartes of all faythfull professours of Christes Gospel. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. iv. 198 They..so meditate continually of it, that it is a perpetuall corsiue. 1663 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. Psalms in Tracts (1727) 731 The grief that arises from ill children, is a greater corrosive, than the comfort of good is a cordial. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [noun] > using up completely > one who or that which corrosive1533 swallower1548 soaker1577 exhauster1743 1533 T. Elyot Let. in Gouernour (1880) I. Introd. p. xcvi Dowghters..be grete corrosives of a litle substance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † corrosivev. Obsolete. transitive. To apply a corrosive to; to consume or ‘fret’ as a corrosive; to worry, vex, annoy, distress. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex gremec893 dretchc900 awhenec1000 teenOE fretc1290 annoyc1300 atrayc1320 encumberc1330 diseasec1340 grindc1350 distemperc1386 offenda1387 arra1400 avexa1400 derea1400 miscomforta1400 angerc1400 engrievec1400 vex1418 molesta1425 entrouble?1435 destroublea1450 poina1450 rubc1450 to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450 disprofit1483 agrea1492 trouble1515 grig1553 mis-set?1553 nip?1553 grate1555 gripe1559 spitec1563 fike?1572 gall1573 corsie1574 corrosive1581 touch1581 disaccommodate1586 macerate1588 perplex1590 thorn1592 exulcerate1593 plague1595 incommode1598 affret1600 brier1601 to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603 discommodate1606 incommodate1611 to grate on or upon1631 disincommodate1635 shog1636 ulcerate1647 incommodiate1650 to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653 discommodiate1654 discommode1657 ruffle1659 regrate1661 disoblige1668 torment1718 pesta1729 chagrin1734 pingle1740 bothera1745 potter1747 wherrit1762 to tweak the nose of1784 to play up1803 tout1808 rasp1810 outrage1818 worrit1818 werrit1825 buggerlug1850 taigle1865 get1867 to give a person the pip1881 to get across ——1888 nark1888 eat1893 to twist the tail1895 dudgeon1906 to tweak the tail of1909 sore1929 to put up1930 wouldn't it rip you!1941 sheg1943 to dick around1944 cheese1946 to pee off1946 to honk off1970 to fuck off1973 to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977 to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983 to wind up1984 to dick about1996 to-teen- 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 1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession (1846) 14 Not only sett us free from these detestable enormities, but corrosived our consciences. 1627 M. Drayton Miseries Queene Margarite in Battaile Agincourt 74 If any thing doe corrosiue his brest, It was, that he was in base England borne. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 865 To have the dead flesh deeply corrasived. Derivatives corrosiving n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > [noun] > application of corrosives or caustics corrosiving?1593 potential cautery1598 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > [adjective] > application of corrosives or caustics corrosiving?1593 cauterized1603 cauterizing1626 ?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. D1 Trauelers that by incision are able to ease all atches..note their cuttings, drawings, corrosiuings, boxings, butcherings. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 79 Let us take off the proud flesh with the corrosiving denunciations of vengeance to the impenitent sinners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.n.c1386v.1581 |
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