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单词 insession
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insessionn.

Etymology: < late Latin insessiōn-em, noun of action < insidēre to sit in, < in- (in- prefix3) + sedēre to sit. Compare Italian insessioni ‘certain bathing medicines’ (Florio).
Obsolete.
1.
a. The action of sitting in a bath.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > [noun] > treatments by baths > sitting in a bath
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > sitting in a bath
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1652 J. French York-shire Spaw iv. 49 The second way of using water outwardly is called insession or sitting in water up to the navel.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician x. 365 An insession in Bath-waters, and Pumping upon the place affected.
1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Insessio, old term for the state of sitting over the vapour of a hot bath; insession.]
b. A bath in which the patient sits with the lower part of the body immersed in water or some other liquid; a hip-bath or sitz-bath.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > a bath > bath in which one sits
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1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 367 Fuchsius and other wryt of fomentacions, apposicions, embroches, litle bags and insessions.
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iii. xxxviii. 129 You must release and losen the rains..with foments, cataplasmes and incessions.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Catal. Words Art Insessions be bathing tubs or vessels halfe full, wherein the patient may sit up to the middle or above in some convenient decoction.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. v, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Cc Some make Insessions of the decoction of Tripes to cure the exsiccation..of the belly.
2. Inhabitation, indwelling (by a spirit). rare.
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a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 191 The Prophets have by Him Illumination and Insession. He takes possession of their soule, dwelling in them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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