单词 | deplumation |
释义 | deplumationn. a. The action of depluming, or condition of being deplumed: loss of feathers, plumes, or (figurative) of honours, etc. In quot. 1834 humorously for ‘plucking’ in examination. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [noun] debatec1460 disparagement1486 embasement1575 digraduation1577 lessening1579 degraduation1581 disparagea1592 bastardizing1598 debasement1602 deplumation1611 depression1628 vilificationa1631 degradement1641 degrading1646 prostration1647 deprisure1648 embasure1656 embasing1659 debasure1683 degradationc1752 derogation1785 demotion1872 objectification1973 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripping or being stripped of feathers plucking1440 unpluming1592 deplumation1611 pluming1614 depluming1655 society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > marks > failure of candidate deplumation1834 fizzle1846 flunk1846 pluck1852 fail1944 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Deplumation, a deplumation, pluming, vnfeathering. 1662 R. W[alden] (title) The Deplumation of Mrs. Anne Gibbs, of those furtivous perfections whereof she was supposed a Proprietary. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ (ed. 3) iii. iii. §15. 512 Through the violence of her moulting or deplumation. 1828 G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy II. iii. ii. 47 Notwithstanding the downfall produced by this deplumation, it [sc. the first Wild-Beast] afterward became erect upon its feet like a man. 1834 Oxf. Univ. Mag. 1 289 Lest..we recall to painful remembrance the forgotten miseries of deplumation. b. Pathology. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Deplumation..in Surgery, a swelling of the Eyelids, accompany'd with the fall of the Hairs from the Eye-brows. 1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Deplumation..old term for a disease of the eyelids which causes the eyelashes to fall off (Gr. πτίλωσις). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1611 |
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