| 单词 | armamentarium | 
| 释义 | armamentariumn. 1.  Formerly: †a building in which arms and armour are kept, an arsenal (obsolete). Now: the collection of weapons and military equipment in a country's possession.In quot. 1647: a fort. In quot. a1650   in plural, perhaps with the sense ‘armaments, weaponry’. ΚΠ 1647    J. Greaves Disc. Romane Foot 18  				The proof..is taken from an ancient Romane armamentarium, or Fort, neer the sea. a1650    S. D'Ewes Jrnls. Parl. Queen Elizabeth anno 1601 		(1682)	 671/2  				The making of Armamentaria is a Regality belonging only to the King and the Crown of England. 1683    J. Turner Pallas Armata  ii. xxi. 129  				In this Camp, I find no place for an Armamentarium, or Magazine, no place for their Engines and Machines, their Catapults, Balists, Rams, Towers, and the rest of their Artillery. 1685    E. Browne Brief Acct. Trav. Europe 		(ed. 2)	 168  				The Armamentarium-Armory or Arsenal, is a long, square Building, wherein are about Four hundred brass Pieces of Ordnance. a1691    P. Skippon in  Coll. Voy. & Trav. 		(1732)	 VI. 446/2  				The Armamentarium is well provided with all sorts of arms. 1889    Cent. Dict. (at cited word)  				Armamentarium, an armamentary. 1977    New Yorker 25 July 40/2  				It is exceeded in toxicity only by..certain substances in the armamentarium of nerve gas and other chemical-warfare weapons. 2010    Pittsburgh 		(Pa.)	 Post-Gaz. 		(Nexis)	 21 May  b6  				He would be fully aware of this dire consequence if Israel were to give up its nuclear armamentarium.  2.  The range of equipment (medicines, instruments, etc.) and therapeutic techniques available to a medical practitioner in combating disease and ill health. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > 			[noun]		 armamentarium1825 1784    S. Johnson Let. 12 Aug. 		(1994)	 IV. 364  				In my armamentarium medicum I took..a bottle of Tincture of Cantharides.]			 1825    Lancet 31 Dec. 472/2  				We are disposed to consider this instrument as something useful added to the armamentarium of our art. 1874    D. B. St. J. Roosa Dis. Ear 171  				The ordinary armamentarium of the surgeon. 1906    V. Horsley in  S. Paget Life 		(1919)	 236  				A whole armamentarium of drugs. 1964    Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynaecol. 71 668/2  				Dilatation and curettage has a major place in the diagnostic and therapeutic armamentarium of the obstetrician and gynaecologist. 1993    A. N. Cranin et al.  Atlas Oral Implantol. vi. 62/2  				All the rakes in the armamentarium should have blunt, not sharp, tips.  3.  More generally: an array or collection of resources available for a certain purpose. ΚΠ 1844    Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 36 144  				When we returned to the glacier of the Aar..we took along with us a complete armamentarium of tubes, probes, weights, balances, and other apparatus of this kind. 1901    Daily Chron. 12 Dec. 3/4  				This substance..is not necessary for preserving the vegetables, any more than annotta added to colour milk is a necessary item in the dairyman's armamentarium. 1935    Nature 7 Sept. 385/1  				The pituitary body provides the brain with an armamentarium of hormones, which are secreted in several ways. 1964    M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia xiii. 76  				The linguistic armamentarium may even include patterns from other cultures, as well as certain non-verbal systems of communication. 1991    Nation 		(N.Y.)	 25 Mar. 361/1  				The Federal Reserve is trying every stimulation in its armamentarium to jolt a fading economy back to life. 2004    New Yorker 10 May 104/2  				His ‘Bernstein Dances’..used four hundred and twenty-seven costumes, a vast armamentarium of sets, and two and a half hours of our time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < | 
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