单词 | incarceration |
释义 | incarcerationn. a. The action of incarcerating or fact of being incarcerated; imprisonment. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] prisonOE wardc1290 prisoning1344 keepingc1384 imprisonment1389 prisonment1422 jail1447 fasteningc1460 warding1497 firmancea1522 incarcerationc1540 imprisoningc1542 limbo1590 limbus?a1600 endurance1610 jailing1622 restraint1829 carceration1870 holiday1901 Paddy Doyle1919 bird1924 c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. v. vii. f. 58v/2 Be lang seiknes and malancoly (quhilk he tuke for his incarceration). a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James I in Wks. (1711) 4 He thought by gentle Incarcerations to have restrained their Malice. 1803 S. Smith Wks. (1869) 31 Since the benevolent Howard attacked our prisons, incarceration has become not only healthy but elegant. 1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 117 The deprivation of Personal Freedom constitutes..an incarceration of the Soul. b. Pathology. Obstinate constriction or strangulation of a hernia (see incarcerated adj.); retention of the placenta in parturition. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > constriction constipationc1400 stricturec1400 prefocation?a1425 strangling1563 strangulation1749 constriction1783 incarceration1819 stenosis1872 1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. ii. xlii. 633 The..simple obstruction of a hernia, is essentially different from incarceration, or strangulation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1540 |
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