单词 | focillation |
释义 | † focillationn. Obsolete. Nourishment, refreshment; comfort, support; an act or instance of this.In early use only in dictionaries. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] nourishmentc1330 nurshinga1382 nurshmenta1382 sustenance1389 nutrition?a1425 nutrure?c1450 sustentation1452 nutrifaction?1503 education1533 feeding1547 nourishing1560 nutriture1568 cherishment1593 subsistence1615 nutrication1623 alimentation1626 keeping1644 alition1650 alumnation1658 focillation1658 aliture1721 altion1721 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Focillation, a refreshing. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Focillation, a Comforting or Cherishing. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Anima Poetae (1895) 245 The science, that is, of morals not as the ground and law of duty, but in their relation to the empirical hindrances and focillations in the realising of the law by human beings. 1874 J. H. Jones Dominie's Son ix. 161 Luxury having flaunted in the garb of life's focillation, and filtered enjoyment for Elysian bliss, finds equality its recipient, and romance its goal. 1917 Chicago Med. Recorder Oct. 438 These callow extrusions from parthenogenetic minds arouse either amusement or scorn and in some instances, happily, are replaced in the incubator for further focillation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1658 |
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