单词 | diallage |
释义 | diallagen.1 Rhetoric. Somewhat rare. A figure of speech by which arguments, after having been considered from various points of view, are all brought to bear on one point. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > concentration of arguments on one point diallage1706 1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Diallage, a Figure in Rhetorick, when many Arguments are brought to one effect. 1831 ‘P. Palette’ Crayons from Commons 44 And when a whole diallage was rear'd, Chagrined he found that no one member cheer'd. 2000 Accounting Historians Jrnl. Dec. 62 This piling-up of arguments in support of expected profits, rhetorically a sort of diallage..creates a sense of moving forward. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). diallagen.2 Mineralogy. Now rare. Any of various mineral varieties (originally amphiboles and pyroxenes; in later use spec. clinopyroxenes, as diopside and augite) which display distinct pinacoidal lamination, often with other minerals between the plates. ΚΠ 1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 605 Smaragdite, Saussure..Diallage, Hauy. 1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 211 Hypersthene..passes into a greyish-green diallage, and, with a greenish felspar, forms the very beautiful diallage rock of those localities. 1865 A. G. K. L'Estrange Yachting round West of Eng. 222 Some Serpentine is permeated by veins of golden diallage. 1922 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 30 640 Diallage is proxied by an amphibole of similar chemical composition. 1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) i. 16 When pinacoidal cleavages appear in addition to the prismatic ones in pyroxenes, they are called diallage. 2001 A. R. Woolley Alkaline Rocks & Carbonatites of World III. 272/2 The gabbros consist of diallage, sometimes enclosing orthopyroxene, and in least altered specimens may be surrounded by hornblende, plagioclase and magnetite. Compounds attributive. Designating rock (esp. gabbro) containing much diallage. ΚΠ 1813 T. Thomson in Ann. Philos. 2 250 The Italians have given it the name of gabbro; but Von Buch..has distinguished it by the name of diallage rock, a name which I have adopted. 1855 J. D. Forbes Tour Mt. Blanc xi. 237 The boulders here seemed to be gabbro or diallage rock. 1915 Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 26 170 This [rock type]..is believed to have arisen from the annealing of a diallage rock by the heat of a later diorite intrusion. 1971 J. P. Lockwood in T. W. Donnelly Caribbean Geophysical, Tectonic, & Petrologic Stud. 69 An indication of the size of individual slide blocks..is given by the dike-like bodies of diallage gabbro present within the serpentinite. Derivatives diallagic adj. Brit. , U.S. [after French diallagique (1819 or earlier)] containing or resembling diallage.ΚΠ 1824 H. T. De la Beche tr. A. Brongniart in Sel. Geol. Mem. 199 He [sc. Cordier] refers..the common schistose and diallagic serpentine, and the steaschist to the primary class. 1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks x. 125 The diallagic augite sections are broad. 1984 Lithos 17 2/2 Clinopyroxenites contain equigranular, diallagic diopside. ΚΠ 1877 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 33 903 The plates of the diallagoid mineral are wavy in outline, and tend to be parallel. 1897 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 53 365 Diallagoid and hornblendic cleavages..are seen in the greenish mineral in the midst of a felted hornblendic mass. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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