单词 | exacerbation |
释义 | exacerbationn. 1. The action of exacerbating or provoking to anger or hatred; the condition of being exacerbated; embitterment, irritation; an instance of the same. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] sorenessOE courouxa1450 courouce1450 exasperationa1549 exacerbation1582 exulceration1593 vexednessa1670 sweat1715 the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > action of provoking hatred exacerbation1582 1582 Bible (Rheims) Heb. iii. 15 Do not obdurate your hartes as in that exacerbation. 1605 G. Powel Refut. Epist. Apologeticall 39 It breedeth exacerbation of minde. 1638 E. Reynolds Serm. Peace Church 21 Which course usually tendeth to mutuall exacerbation. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. x. 86 Fits of peevishness and exacerbation. 1808 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 105 Political controversy, and the exacerbation of spirit into which it degenerates. 1827 T. Hamilton Youth & Manhood Cyril Thornton I. xiii. 193 Those exacerbations of temper to which he was habitually liable. 1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ (ed. 2) II. xliii. 106, (note) The exacerbation between Jews and Samaritans was always at its worst during the anniversaries of the national feasts. 2. Increase in severity (of disease, sufferings, punishments, etc.); an instance of this. Chiefly Pathology, a paroxysm (of a fever, etc.); also transferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > exacerbation of suffering > [noun] exacerbation1625 acerbation1793 turn of the screw1796 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > increase in severity exacerbation1625 exasperation1633 ingravescence1822 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > attack of accessc1300 exacerbation1625 weed1753 exacerbescence1794 flush1858 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [noun] > making more severe aggravating1564 exacerbation1625 exasperation1633 aggravidizationa1641 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. iii. 64 Coniectures of I know not what kinde of feauer, the which now and then was not without some exacerbations. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. J. Walaeus Two Epist. (new ed.) in tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) 366 A Fit or Exacerbation at every Circuit of the blood. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 348 A great Exacerbation of this Pain the Moment after swallowing any thing. 1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. (1818) II. 297 A vigilant magistracy, an accurate police..contribute more to the restraint..of crimes than any violent exacerbations of punishment. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. viii. 188 He absolutely trembled with..the exacerbations of his valour. 1861 T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 608 There are few diseases more painful to witness than is tetanus, especially during the exacerbations of the spasm. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 80 Hectic fever is of a distinctly intermittent or remittent type, there being exacerbations. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1582 |
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