单词 | delitescence |
释义 | delitescencen. 1. The state or condition of being hidden; concealment; seclusion; (also) latency, dormancy. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] > concealed condition hiding?c1225 concealment1608 latency1615 delitescence1632 concealedness1635 latentness1660 abscondment1694 delitescencya1697 occultation1758 latence1794 caving1867 1632 R. Winterton tr. J. Gerhard Golden Chaine Divine Aphorismes xviii. 291 We hold no Locall Inclosing of the Body into the Bread, or the Bloud into the Wine;..nor any Delitescence, concealement, or lying-hid of the Body under the Bread. 1776 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 22 May To sooth him into inactivity or delitescence. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxx. 213 The obscuration, the delitescence of mental activities. 1969 J. Singer tr. I. J. Singer Steel & Iron iv. 52 Occasionally he read in the public library, but the silent hall, the imperturbable readers, the padding librarians, and the musty delitescence in the midst of all the turmoil and excitement depressed and annoyed him. 2014 A. K. B. Kumar All that glitters is not God 315 She fell back to the rear rank. In delitescence, she peered at the head of her one-time lover. a. Sudden cessation or resolution of an incipient inflammatory process. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1820 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. 43 62 Inflammation of the sanguiferous vessels may be dissipated at the end of a certain period; and this is termed delitescence, or resolution. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 46 Resolution may take place very quickly, this being termed delitescence. 1913 W. A. Bryan Princ. Surg. iv. 107 Delitescence is the cutting short of a inflammatory process or an abortive inflammation. b. The interval between the entrance of a disease-causing agent into the body and the first appearance of symptoms or signs of the disease; the incubation period or latent stage of a disease. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > incubation delitescence1833 incubation1835 incubation-period1879 1833 J. L. Bardsley in J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 492/1 In general the period of delitescence in genuine hydrophobia is seldom shorter than forty days. 1886 C. Heath Dict. Pract. Surg. I. 762/1 The latent stage, or delitescence, is not marked by any characteristic symptoms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1632 |
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