单词 | defoedation |
释义 | defoedationn. Now rare. The action of contaminating, polluting, or infecting something, esp. the skin or the blood; an instance of this. Formerly also: †a physical abnormality, esp. a lesion of the skin, attributed to this (obsolete). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > blood poisoning defoedation1583 blood poisoning1844 septicaemia1844 pyaemia1850 septaemia1851 toxaemia1860 ichorrhaemia1867 sapraemia1879 autotoxaemia1890 stercoraemia1890 toxanaemia1891 nosotoxicosis1892 toxinaemia1900 azotaemia1961 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ii. 204 But we haue spoken by the way of the euilles and defedations of the skinne, only that the confusion of things might be eschewed, which happeneth by words misunderstood. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xx. vii. 771 A Morphew or defaedation [L. defoedatio] of all the skin. 1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) xxiii. 445 Upon the dispersing of Nations after the deluge, Lust lasciviously running a debauched course,..introduced many deformities and defoedations of the Humane forme. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician v. 153 A purge must not be given in any defœdation of the skin. 1732 R. Bentley in J. Milton Paradise Lost (new ed.) Pref. p. v The defœdation of so many parts by a bad printer, and a worse editor. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. 139 Successive crops Of defœdations oft will spot the skin. 1793 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. II. 94 All these changes are so many defædations of this poem. 1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone II. iii. 63 His skin appeared in many parts very foul, as if from cutaneous eruptions just healed... These defœdations were chiefly visible upon the arms, legs, and neck. 1836 Lancet 23 July 557/2 I have often detected cutaneous venereal defoedations which had not attracted attention. 2007 T. Griffiths Theatre Plays I. 13 One: (Angering) More of this defilement, this contamination, this. Two: Defoedation? One: This fetor, this decay, this. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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