单词 | incontinency |
释义 | † incontinencyn. Obsolete. The quality of being incontinent. 1. a. = incontinence n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] incontinencec1384 unchastityc1384 adulteryc1405 bawdry1460 sensualities1477 incontinency1485 unchasteness1530 dishonesty1535 immorality?1566 inconstancy1581 inchastity1590 1485 Act 1 Hen. VII c. 4 Avoutrie fornicacion inceste or eny other flesshely incontinency. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. vii. 5 Come agayne to the same thynge lest Satan tempt you for youre incontinency. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 63 The one accused Susanna of incontinency under a Πρίνος, or Ever-green Oak. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. 415 Such as shall..be convicted of..any fleshly Incontinency. b. = incontinence n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun] unimetec888 unmethelOE overdeeda1200 unmetheshipa1250 outragec1325 ragec1330 reveriec1350 delavinessc1380 recolagea1400 dissolutionc1400 superfluityc1405 wantonness1448 intemperancy1532 intemperacy?1541 untemperance?1541 intemperance1547 excess1552 immoderateness1569 intemperateness1571 unbridledness1571 inordinateness1577 untemperateness1578 dissoluteness1580 acrasia1590 acrasy1590 intemperature1602 inordination1615 inordinancya1617 immoderation1640 extravagancy1651 debauch1672 extravagance1676 incontinency1715 extravaganza1754 incontinence1836 unmeasuredness1864 1715 J. Swift Enquiry Queen's Last Ministry i, in Wks. (1765) VIII. i. 52 As the Earl was too reserved, so, perhaps, the other was too free; not from any incontinency of talk, but from the mere contempt of multiplying secrets. 2. Pathology. = incontinence n. 2.[Cf. quot. 1607 at inconstancy n. 4 ] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > incontinence incontinence1754 incontinency1769 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 388 There is a disease pretty incident to labouring people in the decline of life, called an incontinency of urine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1485 |
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