单词 | diverticle |
释义 | † diverticlen. Obsolete. 1. A byway or bypath; a turning out of the main way or straight course. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun] > by-way (not main route) by-gatec1330 byway1330 outwaya1382 sidewayc1450 back-way1577 diverticle1582 diverticulum1647 by-route1855 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie 186/4 Diuerticle. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 259 Neither of them standeth in the full sweepe,..of those Riuers, but in a diuerticle, or by way. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. ii. 60 The first entrance..is not straight, but full of many diverticles and crooked paths. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 55 Who made the heart, and knows al the diverticules or turnings and windings of it. 1782 T. Warton Specimen Hist. Oxfordshire (1783) 52 (T.) I suspect there was a diverticle of the Akeman shooting from Whichwood towards Idbury. 2. = diverticulum n. 2. ΚΠ 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Diverticle..in Anatomy, any hollow appendage which belongs to and communicates with the cavity of the intestinal canal, and terminates in a cul-de-sac. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1582 |
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