单词 | ebullition |
释义 | ebullitionn. 1. a. The process of boiling, or keeping a liquid at the boiling point by the application of heat; the state of bubbling agitation into which a liquid is thrown by being heated to the boiling point. In first quot. perhaps (etymologically) the process of extracting by boiling. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] welling1371 seethinga1387 boiling1481 ebullition1594 elixation1605 estuating1674 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > state of being boiling (of liquid) seethingc1300 boilingc1380 playing?c1425 ebullition1792 boil1813 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 16 When you haue gotten out by ebulition the full strength & vertue. 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Five Treat. Ebullition, a boiling up. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. i. v. 76 Galls are almost totally soluble in water by long ebullition. 1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 403 Ebullition is that state of a liquid in which steam is continually formed within itself. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xii. 302 Fluids of easy ebullition. 1842 G. P. Scrope Volcanos (1862) 30 This body of lava is evidently at such times in igneous ebullition. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [noun] > high temperature > state due to estuation?a1425 ebullition1547 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. xxiiii It may come of..ebullycion of the lyuer. 1623 J. Hart tr. P. van Foreest Arraignm. Vrines ii. 7 The ebullition or concoction of blood. 1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xliv. 263 [Mars] being the cause of a Feaver..shewes ebolition or a boyling of the humours. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 20 Scorbutick Ale..restraineth the Ebullition..of the Vapourous Blood. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Ebullition of the Blood..in medicine a term used by some of the old writers. 2. transferred. A state of agitation in a liquid resembling that produced by boiling heat; rapid formation of bubbles, effervescence. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] boilingc1384 fervence14.. bubblinga1500 burbling1528 bullitiona1626 ebullition1646 fermentationa1661 intumescence1661 effervescence1685 struggle1741 struggling1764 bubblement1842 bubble1870 creaming1888 hotter1923 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 197 Copper, which is dissolved with lesse ebullition . View more context for this quotation 1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) ii. xiv. 452 The ebullition which happens between acid and alkali. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Euphorbium Spirit of Nitre and that of Vitriol, penetrate the same, without Ebullition. 1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 109 Muriatic acid does not act upon copper except in a state of ebullition. 3. The action of rushing forth in a state of agitation or boiling; said of water, and transferred of fire, lava, etc. (In quot. 1600 humorously of tobacco-smoke.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > sudden or violent eruption1555 ebullition1600 eluctation1633 explosion1652 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. i. sig. Hiv The..practise of the Cuban Ebolition, Evripvs, and Whiffe. View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 25 The fiery ebullitions of Ætna. 1683 J. Pettus Ess. Metallick Words at Boyling, in Fleta Minor ii This ebolition or plawing [of a spring]. 1693 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (ed. 2) ii. v. 205 The ebullition and volutation of the melted Materials. 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 381 The ebullitions of this Spring are very remarkable. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxiv. 356 Ebullition is converted into explosion. 1867 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 10) I. xix. 452 When one of the lumps was blown up with gunpowder, a great ebullition of gas..took place. 4. figurative. A sudden outburst or boiling or bubbling over: a. of war or civil commotion. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > political unrest > [noun] > sudden outbreak of ebullitiona1533 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.viij The ebulicion and mouyng of cyuyll warres. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 11 The Law, which kept under the violent ebullitions of their power. 1878 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula I. 31 After the first ebullition at Manresa, the insurrection of Catalonia lingered awhile. b. of passion; also, of fancy, sentiment, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > [noun] > sudden outburst or access of passion heatc1200 gerec1369 accessc1384 braida1450 guerie1542 bursting1552 ruff1567 riot1575 suddentyc1575 pathaire1592 flaw1596 blaze1597 start1598 passion1599 firework1601 storm1602 estuation1605 gare1606 accession?1608 vehemency1612 boutade1614 flush1614 escapea1616 egression1651 ebullition1655 ebulliency1667 flushinga1680 ecstasy1695 gusta1704 gush1720 vehemence1741 burst1751 overboiling1767 explosion1769 outflaming1836 passion fit1842 outfly1877 Vesuvius1886 outflame1889 1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. Pref. sig. B3 The obvious ebullitions of that light humor, which takes the pen in hand..to be seen in print. 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 156 The ebullitions of those lusts that war in our members. 1759 J. Reynolds Idler 20 Oct. 329 Such faults may be said to be the ebullitions of Genius. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 339 These ebullitions of jealousy. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris App. p. xxi A slight ebullition of French flattery. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 147 A revolutionary reform breaks out with an ebullition of popular feelings. Derivatives ebuˈllitionary adj. of the nature of an ebullition. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [adjective] > boiling with agitated motion effervescent1684 exaestuating1684 ebullitionary1830 walloping1845 1830 Black in Fraser's Mag. I. 287 The saline particles have been added to the ebullitionary agitation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.a1533 |
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