单词 | emunction |
释义 | † emunctionn. Obsolete. rare. 1. The action of wiping the nose; hence transferred of clearing any of the passages of the body. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the nose snitingc1000 emunction1615 blow1834 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 538 We haue often seen that Medicines applied to the eyes haue through these holes past into the nose, and so haue beene cast out either by emunction or by the mouth. 1684 I. Mather Ess. Illustrious Provid. (1846) 212 After the use of unctions and emunctions. 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 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the eyes emunction1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. v. 42 The imunction of the eies, with the juice thereof [sc. green onions], is thought to clense their cicatrices or cloudinesse of the eies. 1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) ii. 71 The curious emunctions of the pores. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1601 |
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