单词 | despumation |
释义 | despumationn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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