单词 | fugacious |
释义 | fugaciousadj. 1. Apt to flee away or flit. a. Of immaterial things: Tending to disappear, of short duration; evanescent, fleeting, transient, fugitive. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] slidinga900 scrithingOE henwardOE swifta1225 short livya1325 passing1340 flittingc1374 shadowy1374 temporalc1384 speedfula1400 transitory?c1400 brittlea1425 unabidingc1430 frail?c1450 indurablec1450 scrithel?c1475 caduke1483 transitorious1492 passanta1500 perishinga1500 caducea1513 fugitive?1518 caducal?1548 quick1548 delible1549 flittering1549 undurable?1555 shadowish1561 fleeting1563 vading1566 flightful1571 wanzing1571 transitive1575 slipping1581 diary1583 unlasting1585 never-lasting1588 flit1590 post-like1594 running1598 short-lived1598 short-winded1598 transient1599 unpermanent1607 flashy1609 of a day1612 passable1613 dureless1614 urgenta1616 waxena1616 decayable1617 horary1620 evanid1626 fugitable1628 short-dated1632 fugacious1635 ephemerala1639 impermanent1653 fungous1655 volatile1655 ephemerousa1660 unimmortal1667 timesome1674 while-being1674 of passage1680 journal1685 ephemeron1714 admovent1727 evanescent1728 meteorous1750 deciduous1763 preterient1786 ephemeridal1795 meteorica1802 meteor1803 ephemerean1804 ephemerid1804 evanescing1805 fleeted1810 fleet1812 unenduring1814 unremaining1817 unimmortalized1839 impersistent1849 flighty1850 uneternal1862 caducous1863 diurnal1866 horarious1866 brisk1879 evasive1881 picaresque1959 1635 E. Rainbow Labour sig. Aij Fugatious words, which escape the eares pursuit. a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 71 A thing most fugacious and slippery. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 206 With at best only a few deceitful, little, fugacious pleasures interspersed. 1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xli. 433 I owe this information to the manuscript papers of a diligent collector of these fugacious anecdotes. 1817 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 44 234 There is in the affection of poetic readers a something very fugacious. 1855 H. Martineau Autobiogr. (1877) II. 226 The fugacious nature of life and time. 1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. 203 Colours, tastes, smells..being, in comparison, fugacious. b. Of persons: †Ready to run away. Also humorously (of persons), fleeing; (of things) slippery. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adjective] > running away > given to fugitivea1616 fugacious1651 the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > of the nature of oil > oily and slippery sliddera1000 slippera1050 fugitivec1485 slippery1551 lubricous1659 soapy1732 saponaceous1837 lubricate1848 fugacious1872 1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. Ep. 557 The most fugatious of all the Gods. 1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey 81 The oily slices of fugacious potatoes slipping about in the dish. 1885 Harper's Mag. Feb. 367/1 Aunt..chuckled away to herself at the retrospect of her own fugacious figure. c. Of a material substance: Volatile. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > connected with or producing vaporization > able to be vaporized > volatile flying1471 spirituala1500 volatile1605 fugitive1666 fugacious1671 volitablea1690 incoercible1710 1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 126 This primum ens..is a fugacious spirit. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 198 The fugacious poison departs as the Serum breaks out. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. x. 425 No one..has analyzed the fugacious element of air with more success. 1823 Mechanic's Mag. No. 10. 160 From the highly fugacious nature of that part of coffee on which its fine flavour depends. 2. Botany and Zoology. Falling or fading early; soon cast off. Cf. caducous adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adjective] > permanent or discarded shedc1430 deciduous1657 marcescent1727 fugacious1750 permanent1776 shrivelling1776 persisting1777 persistent1785 sphacelate1785 shedding1796 sphacelated1806 caducous1808 restant1828 fugitive1830 horarious1866 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 35 An immoderate use of crude fugacious fruits..will likewise occasion a Diarrhœa. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 288 Curtain white, delicate, fugacious, hanging in fragments at the edge of the pileus. 1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) ii. 16 Seed..may be extremely fugacious by its slight adhesion to the plant. 1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi (1875) 18 In some Agarics the ring is very fugacious or absent altogether. ?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. xiv Petals..very fugacious. Derivatives fuˈgaciously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adverb] > in a volatile manner fugaciously1811 1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory (1830) 1011 Sulphuretted hydrogen is known to be contained in water..by its reddening the infusion of litmus fugaciously. fuˈgaciousness n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience frailnessa1300 timelinessa1500 transitoriness1550 fleeting1616 temporality1635 wanzingness1642 transiency1647 impermanency1648 undurableness1648 transientness1653 fugacity1656 evanidness1659 fugaciousness1664 timeishness1674 timesomeness1674 volatilenessa1676 fleetingness1709 deciduousness1727 fleetness1727 momentaneousness1727 preterience1730 transience1739 evanescence1751 unpermanency1751 transitiveness1775 caducity1793 impermanence1796 ephemerality1822 passingness1839 transitionalness1880 anitya1882 diariness1891 anicca1904 ephemeralness1911 the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [noun] > becoming or making into vapour > ability to become vapour > volatility volatility1626 fugacity1656 fugitivenessa1661 volatilenessa1676 fugaciousness1875 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense Introd. 56 in Sylva Well therefore did..Columella put his Gard'ner in mind of the fugaciousness of the Seasons. 1821 New Monthly Mag. 1 160 The utter inanity and fugaciousness of all mortal grandeur. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 116 The volatility of ammonia and the extreme fugaciousness of its action. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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