单词 | crudity |
释义 | crudityn. 1. a. The state or quality of being raw, unrefined, untempered, unripe, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > state of being or becoming ripe or mature > unripeness greennessc1450 crudity1707 unripeness1783 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 274 To keepe it, to the age of a yeare,..whereby the Water may lose the Crudity. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick x. vi. 296 Waters..wherein there is Crudity or a Mineral. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 67 These several degrees of Crudity appear in Grapes. 1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery iv. 292 Lead, divested of its Crudity and Grossness by being purified. b. An instance of this; also concrete (in plural) raw products; unripe or uncooked substances. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > [noun] raw material1612 crudity1626 raw produce1832 stock1873 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > state of being cooked > state of being undercooked or improperly cooked > raw or uncooked substances rawOE crudity1626 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §326 To say..that if the Crudities, Impurities, and Leprosies of Metals were cured, they would become Gold. 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 4 In Fee With the Doctors to sell green Fruit to the Gentry, that the Crudities may breed Diseases. 1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings How to convert these crudities of nature into nutritious vegetables. 2. a. Physiology. Of food: The state of being imperfectly digested, or the quality of being indigestible; indigestion; also, in old physiology, imperfect ‘concoction’ of the humours; undigested (or indigestible) matter in the stomach; plural imperfectly ‘concocted’ humours. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > indigestion cardiac passiona1398 rawnessa1398 heartburnc1440 rawhead1440 heart-burningc1450 undigestionc1450 indigestion1495 crudeness1541 crudity1541 bradypepsy1605 predigestion1612 heart-scald1628 indigestiblenessa1631 dyspepsy1656 unconcoction1662 apepsy1678 incoction1684 soda1693 dyspepsia1706 cardialgia1710 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > flatulence > vapour steamc1000 fumosityc1386 fumec1400 vapours1422 crudity1541 gas1759 the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion > fact or condition of being undigested > undigested matter in stomach crudity1670 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iv. i. 74 b Cruditie is a vycious concoction of thynges receyued, they not beinge holly or perfitely altered. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 259 The crudities or raw humors lying in the stomack, which cause loathing and abhorring of meat. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii.xi. 536 I do not think any stomach in the world, but his, could have digested so much crudity. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 87 Crudities are the cause of all Catarrhs. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers iv. iv. 387 Crudities and indigestion are said to give uneasy dreams. 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 39 A crudity in the blood will appear in the argument. b. The firmness or hardness of morbid matter before it is ‘ripe’; the early or immature stage of a disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > early stage crudity1728 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > pus or matter > qualities of wickednessc1400 crudity1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Crudity,..the State of a Disease, wherein the morbifick Matter is of such Bulk, Figure, Cohesion, Mobility, or Inactivity, as denominates it crude, i. e. as creates or increases the Disease. 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. iv. 107/2 When tuberculous matter has existed..in the state of firmness or ‘crudity’. 3. a. Of mental products, etc. (also transferred of persons): The condition of being immature, undeveloped, ill-digested. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [noun] > unreadiness or immaturity rawnessOE unripenessa1500 crudeness1541 greenness1574 immaturity1593 indigestion1630 rudeness1645 immatureness1665 inchoateness1845 crudity1870 inchoacy1871 rudimentariness1885 1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech i. 10 Languages in every stage of crudity or development. 1875 W. E. Gladstone in Contemp. Rev. June 17 He gave no signs of crudity, never affected knowledge he did not possess. b. (with a and plural) An instance of crudity; a crude idea, statement, piece of literary work, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [noun] > unreadiness or immaturity > instance of immaturity1651 cruditya1656 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] > instance of cruditya1656 crudeness1881 a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 152 They have nothing in them, but cold crudities. 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 239. ⁋2 This Author, in the last of his Crudities, has amassed together a Heap of Quotations. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty v. 203 Rushing into some half-examined crudity which has struck the fancy. 1879 J. Morley Burke 26 The book is full of crudities. 4. Unpolished plainness or ‘brutality’ of statement or expression: cf. crude adj. 8. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] roughnessa1398 beggarliness1542 crabbedness1546 barbarousness1549 grossness1563 rusticity1565 barbarism1578 inconcinnity1616 ungracefulness1658 incuriosity1661 incomptness1669 uncouthness1672 unpoliteness1684 barbarity1706 inelegance1726 inelegancy1727 scabrousness1727 asperity1779 crudity1885 ineloquence1894 1885 Spectator 30 May 704/2 Nor did he recoil from Rabelaisian crudity of expression. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1541 |
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