单词 | arcuation |
释义 | arcuationn. 1. A curving into the shape of an arch; incurvation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > curvature arcuation1696 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Arcuation, the bending of the bones. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) Arcuation is used, by some writers in surgery, for an incurvation of the bones. 1880 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 2. Horticulture. A method of raising trees, by bending down twigs and pegging them into the ground, so that they take new root independent of the parent stock. ? Obsolete. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Arcuation, in Gardening, is the raising of Trees by Layers. 3. The use of the arch in building; arched work. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > arching fornication1703 arcuation1856 1856 E. B. Denison Lect. Church Building ii. 66 The principles of arcuation. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 19 Arcuation plastered over to look like trabeation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1696 |
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