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单词 decuman
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decumanadj.

/ˈdɛkjuːmən/
Forms: Also 1600s–1700s -ane.
Etymology: < Latin decumānus, variant of decimānus of or belonging to the tenth part, or the tenth cohort, < decimus tenth: see -an suffix; also, by metonymy, considerable, large, immense.
1. Very large, immense: usually of waves.(As to the popular belief that the tenth or decuman wave, fluctus decumanus, is greater and more dangerous than any other: see Sir Thos. Browne Pseud. Epidemica vii. xvii. 2, De Quincey Pagan Oracles in Wks. (1862) VII. 183.)
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge
unmeeteOE
unmeetlyOE
hugea1275
hideousc1330
infinitec1385
unmeasureda1398
unmeasurablec1405
hugyc1420
immeasurable1440
ingentc1450
unmeetlyc1450
giant1480
immense1490
monstrous?a1513
unmeasurely1513
hugeousa1529
unportable1537
enormous1544
enormc1560
giantly1561
immensible1579
rouncival1582
dismeasured1584
vast1585
immeasured1590
gargantuan1596
omnipotent1596
colossian1601
immane1601
prodigious1601
Polyphemian1602
Titanian1603
titanical1603
gigantical1604
immensive1604
gigantine1605
colossic1607
gigantean1611
Gogmagotical1612
gigantal?1614
Babylonian1617
leviathan1625
titanic1628
elephantine1631
gigantive1638
colossean1644
decumanal1652
immensurate1654
gigant1658
decuman1659
colossal1664
abnormous1710
Brobdingnagian1728
Brobdingnag1731
Pantagruelian1737
heroic1785
Patagonian1786
seven-league1787
Titan1793
gigantic1797
seven-leagued1799
mammoth1801
dimensionless1813
tremendous1813
gigantesque1821
monster1837
titanesque1838
monstre1840
giantlike1847
leviathanic1848
pythonic1851
Babylonic1853
supercolossal1871
giantesque1909
behemothian1910
supergiant1919
ginormous1942
big-ass1945
Ozymandian1961
fuck-off1962
mega1968
humongous1970
monstro1970
big-assed1972
big-arsed1996
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [adjective] > unusually large
decuman1659
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 30 To be overwhelmed and quite sunk by such decumane billowes as those small vessels have no proportion to resist.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xxiii. 97 That..Decumane Wave that took us fore and aft.
1838 Fraser's Mag. 17 122 The tenth, or decuman, is the last of the series of waves, and the most sweeping in its operation.
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. i. 5 Confidence, that even amid the decuman billows of modern scepticism it [the Church] shall remain immovable.
absolute.1870 J. R. Lowell Cathedral 21 Shocks of surf that clomb and fell, Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman.
2. Roman History. Belonging to the tenth cohort: applied to the chief entrance to a camp, or that farthest from the enemy (porta decumana).
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1852 T. Wright Celt, Roman, & Saxon (1861) 148 The decuman gate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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