单词 | alternal |
释义 | alternaladj. Now rare. = alternate adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > [adjective] every other1389 alternatea1535 alternative1540 alternal1576 altern1636 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions f. 57 That thing that lackes alternal rest [L. alterna requie], continue cannot long. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Vicissitudinale, according to an alternall or enterchangeable course. 1662 J. Donne, Jr. Satyr 52 Thy feet to musick neatly thou advancest, By fine alternal motions when thou dancest. 1712 J. Jablonski in Liturgy used in Churches p. ix 'Tis well known that the first Christians performed their devotions per antiphonas, or alternal Responses. 1743 tr. H. Boerhaave Acad. Lect. Theory Physic II. 117 Without an alternal Contraction and Dilatation of the Lungs by Respiration, the Blood cannot pass thro' them from the right to the left Side of the Heart. 1862 Rep. Superintendent Common Schools Pennsylvania 131 District institutes were also held on the alternal Saturdays, in Elk Liek and Northampton townships. 2004 E. Schwed & Z. C. Zang in G. Adachi et al. Binary Rare Earth Oxides iii. 75 Alternal layers of tetrahedral and octahedral sites are then filled with anions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1576 |
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