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单词 despumation
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despumationn.

Etymology: < Latin dēspūmātiōn-em, noun of action < dēspūmāre : see despumate v. In French despumation (1616 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: despuˈmation.
1. The removal of froth or scum from a liquid; the condition of being freed from scum; clarification.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > removal of scum > [noun]
fleetingc1440
scumming1611
skimming1611
despumation1617
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 341 Despumation is when spume or froth floating on the top, is taken away with a spoone, feather, or by colation.
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 215 Honey..boil'd to a perfect Despumation.
1883 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
2. The expulsion of impure matter from the fluids of the body; the matter thus despumated.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > [noun] > action of excreting
sheddingc1200
flux1377
outputtinga1387
purgationa1387
avoidancea1398
voidance1398
evacuation?1533
spurging1548
emptying1552
vacuation1583
emunction1601
regurgitation1601
vacation1617
excretion1640
egestion1644
weeping1655
elimination1665
despumation1684
excreting1849
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 164 By..Despumation I would have nothing else understood, than the Expulsion or Separation of the febrile matter now brought under and as it were conquered.
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. v. 164 The..Glands become loaded with the Despumation of the whole Habit.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxvi. 535 The fluids of the body appear to possess a power of separating and expelling any noxious substance which may have mixed itself with them. This they do, in eruptive fevers, by a kind of despumation, as Sydenham calls it.
1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia II. viii. 158.
3. plural. Skimmings, scum, froth, foam.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > specific impurities > scum > as removed
skimmingc1450
scumming1530
offscum1579
despumations1669
1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 51 Here you see another Cytherea born out of the despumations of our seas of wine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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