faciesn.
/ˈfeɪʃɪiːz/, /ˈfeɪsiːz/, U.S. /ˈfeɪʃiz/, /ˈfeɪʃiˌiz/ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun] > Zodiac > sign of zodiac > third of
facec1386
faciesa1398
decan1588
decanate1647
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. ix. 462 Eueryche signe is departid in þre parties, þe whiche parties beþ iclepid facies..þe firste partye þat hatte facies is ȝeue to Mars, þe secounde to þe sonne, þe þridde to Venus.
?c1450 (a1388) tr. Richard of Wallingford Exafrenon (Digby) in J. D. North Wks. Richard of Wallingford (1976) I. 205 The facies of the signes are departid be 10 and 10... And froo 10 unto 20 is the face of the S.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum viii. ix. f. 124v/2 The first Facies of Libra, is giuen to the Moone: the second to Saturnus, and the third to Iupiter.
2. Chiefly Medicine. The face (rare); the appearance or expression of the face, spec. one considered characteristic of a particular disease or condition (in physical diagnosis). Frequently with distinguishing English or scientific Latin word, esp. in facies Hippocratica (also figurative; cf. Hippocratic adj. 2).
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > [noun]
leera700
nebeOE
onseneeOE
wlitec950
anlethOE
nebshaftc1225
snouta1300
facec1300
visage1303
semblantc1315
vicea1325
cheera1350
countenance1393
front1398
fashiona1400
visurec1400
physiognomyc1425
groina1500
faxa1522
favour1525
facies1565
visor1575
complexiona1616
frontispiecea1625
mun1667
phiz1687
mug1708
mazard1725
physiog1791
dial plate1811
fizzog1811
jiba1825
dial1837
figurehead1840
Chevy Chase1859
mooey1859
snoot1861
chivvy1889
clock1899
map1899
mush1902
pan1920
kisser1938
boat1958
boat race1958
punim1965
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun]
anlethOE
cheerc1225
countenancec1330
facec1330
visage1338
frontc1374
vult?a1400
maid facec1450
walte1524
facies1565
museau1816
shade1817
coupon1962
1565 W. Allen Def. & Declar. Doctr. Purgatory ii. xiii. f. 251 For now let them coom with brasen facies and blasphemous tonges, and say that praiers for the deade be vnprofitable.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Cherubin Rouge comme vn Cherubin, Red-faced, Cherubin-faced, hauing a fierie facies like a Cherubin.
1638 A. Read Man. Anat. Body of Man (new ed.) iii. i. 389 Of the head there be two parts: That which is hayry called Calva, the scalp, and that which hath none, termed Facies the face.
1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iv. iv. 654 This facies Hypocritica is our facies Hipocratica: He that hath the least skill in Physiognomy, may see that this complexion is mortal.
1776 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Boerhaave's Aphorisms (new ed.) I. 28 He [sc. Hippocrates]..says the worst state of it is, when it is diametrically opposite to a healthful countenance, when the nose is sharp, the eyes hollow, &c. describing that kind of countenance which has since been called..the facies Hippocratica.
1869 Lancet 11 Dec. 815/2 The diagnosis of relapsing fever from typhus and enteric fevers turns mainly on..the absence of the facies and rash characteristic of the latter.
1883 J. J. G. Brown Med. Diagnosis (ed. 2) i. 14 There are one or two facies which stand out more prominently than the rest, and which deserve special attention.
1929 O. Jászi Dissolution Habsburg Monarchy i. ii. 9 About ten years later the same facies hippocratica of the monarchy was seen by a Russian observer..who made several trips of investigation in Central Europe.
1932 N. P. Jewell & W. H. Kauntze Handbk. Trop. Fevers xx. 321 During the pyrexial period the face is flushed, the eyes injected (giving a typical ‘ferrety’ appearance to the facies).
1967 Arch. Neurol. (Chicago) 16 6/2 The facies are blank but not immobile, and most have an unblinking stare.
1992 P. O'Brian Clarissa Oakes i. 15 You have the bilious facies to a marked degree.
1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind iii. 61 Hippocratics prided themselves on their clinical acuity, being quick to pick telltale symptoms, as with the facies hippocratica , the facial look of the dying.
3.
a. Natural History (chiefly Botany). The general aspect or appearance exhibited by an organism, esp. a plant.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun]
onseneeOE
bleea1000
shapeOE
ylikeOE
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sightc1275
fare1297
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parelc1330
guise1340
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semblance?a1366
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visor1575
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superficies?1589
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resemblancea1616
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scheme1655
sensation1662
visibility1669
plumage1707
facies1727
remark1748
extrinsica1797
exterior1801
showance1820
the cut of one's jib1823
personnel1839
personal appearance1842
what-like1853
look-see1898
outwall1933
visuality1938
prosopon1947
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Facies (in Botanick Writers), a face.
1835 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 125 355 Barnacles..like the Balani, natatory Crustacea in their first stage, but of a totally different facies and structure.
1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. iv. i. 557 In all large natural families of plants there is a more or less distinctly observable general habit or facies easily recognisable by the practised botanists.
1877 H. A. Nicholson Anc. Life-hist. Earth (1878) ix. 95 Numerous Trilobites of a distinct Cambrian facies have been obtained in the limestones of the Quebec group.
1934 R. L. Praeger Botanist in Ireland §114 In the absence of S. Geum, with which it crosses very freely,..S. spathularis is in Ireland a plant of uniform facies.
1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) II. 1197 The cyclopiform or naupliiform type [of larva] occurs in certain Proctotrupoids... In its general facies it bears a resemblance to the nauplius of Crustacea.
2002 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 89 1897/1 The flowers..probably do not represent an independent derivation of the papilionoid facies.
b. Geology. The character of a part of a formation distinguished by differentiating qualities such as the fossils it contains, the composition and texture of the constituent rocks, etc. Also: a part of a formation having a particular character; (Petrogr.) a mass of igneous rock that differs in some way from the main body of rock of which it is part.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [noun] > formation > character of
facies1854
lithofacies1946
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > intrusion
intrusion1839
intrusive1895
emplacement1914
pluton1934
facies1965
1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria v. 100 They present the same ‘facies’ of a thick, yet finely laminated, dark, dull grey shale.
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 615 Every well-marked formation is characterized..by a general assemblage or facies of organic forms.
1910 P. Lake & R. H. Rastall Text-bk. Geol. xvi. 285 When a geological series or system is in one district composed chiefly of limestone and in another of clays and shales, it is usual to speak of these different types of deposit as different ‘facies’.
1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) v. 85 Very coarse facies are gabbro pegmatites and these occur locally in segregated spots or dikes.
1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. iv. 38/1 The host-rock is a splintery siliceous bluish-grey slate with some micaceous, talcose and felsic facies.
2002 Jrnl. Petrol. 43 1937/1 This is consistent with the expected stability of amphibolite facies rocks in the middle to lower crust.
c. Ecology. Originally: a dominant species of a plant community or an area (now disused). Later: a subdivision of a plant association characterized by a particular dominant species or group of species, spec. one in a developing (seral) community rather than in a climax one (cf. faciation n.).
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [noun] > association or aggregation > dominant species
facies1897
1897 F. E. Clements in Amer. Naturalist 31 969 A common result of such a tension in the Stipa formation is to accentuate the size, and density of growth of the Stipa to such a degree that the formation is bordered along the road by a most conspicuous zone composed wholly of its own facies.
1907 F. E. Clements Plant Physiol. & Ecol. xi. 221 The dominant or controlling species of a formation are termed facies. These are, as a rule, the most abundant, or they make up in size or duration what they lack in number.
1920 F. E. Clements Plant Indicators 276 The grouping of consociations within the association is typical of all climaxes, and seems to warrant a special term... It has seemed desirable to definitize the term facies for seral groupings and to make a new word, faciation, for climax groupings... The two terms conform to the mutual relation seen in associes and association, consocies and consociation.
1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. ii. 25 The facies is distinguished wholly by differences in the quantity or distribution of species.
1938 J. E. Weaver & F. E. Clements Plant Ecol. (ed. 2) iv. 107 The facies..is the developmental unit of the associes characterized, as is the faciation of climax vegetation, by the grouping of dominants.
1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. xi. 334 The seral counterpart of the faciation is the facies.
2002 B. K. Sen Gupta Mod. Foraminifera (rev. ed.) xix. 149/2 In surrounding habitats, the Ammobaculites facies is replaced by an Elphidium facies (seaward),..and a thecamoebian facies (upstream).
Compounds
facies change n. Geology a spatial transition from one facies to another.
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1925 Geografiska Annaler 7 216 I have not been able to disenter this sandstone in the Braganza region, a fact consequently implying a facies change.
2001 M. D. Brasier & J. F. Lindsay in A. Yu. Zhuravlev & R. Riding Ecol. Cambrian Radiation iv. 82 This ‘Tommotian explosion’ can..be regarded as an artefact brought about by missing time followed by abrupt facies changes.
facies fauna n. Geology fossil fauna characteristic of a facies.
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the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > characteristic of specific strata
index fossil1900
zone fossil1904
facies fauna1923
facies fossil1923
1923 L. D. Stamp Introd. Stratigr. ix. 139 It seems that the Pendleside fauna is a ‘facies-fauna’ developed only under special conditions.
1954 J. F. Kirkaldy Gen. Princ. Geol. xvii. 254 They [sc. fossils] not only date the beds, but in the case of facies faunas, give us valuable evidence as to the conditions under which the beds were formed.
1998 Jrnl. Paleontol. 72 719/2 The facies fauna is dominated by the genera Pudoproetus, [etc.].
facies fossil n. Geology a fossil that is characteristic of a stratigraphic facies as a result of the restricted kind of environment tolerated by the original organism.
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the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > characteristic of specific strata
index fossil1900
zone fossil1904
facies fauna1923
facies fossil1923
1923 L. D. Stamp Introd. Stratigr. xii. 194 In Germany the ‘facies-fossils’ of the Muschelkalk do reappear at a much higher horizon.
1950 Jrnl. Paleontol. 24 492/2 The ‘index fossil’ reigns supreme as the indicator of time-span, and the lowly ‘facies fossil’ (a misnomer that creates a multitude of false impressions..) is shrugged off.
1995 P. C. Lyons & R. H. Wagner in P. C. Lyons et al. Hist. Perspective Carboniferous Paleobot. N. Amer. 296 Today that Walchia is a facies fossil and has little biostratigraphic value.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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