insolationn.
/ɪnsəʊˈleɪʃən/ The action of placing in the sun; exposure to the sun's rays; sometimes (in modern use) the action or effect of the sun's rays on a body exposed to them.
1. In general sense. (In quot. 1655, Exposure to daylight, or to the public view.)
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > [noun]
exposurea1616
insolation1655
airing1832
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > to heat of sun
sunning?1440
insolation1655
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 118 Nature it self, in acts of such uncleannesse..declineth insolation and open view.
1665 Beale in Boyle's Wks. VI. 394 I am almost become confident, that one of my thermometers by such insolation, as may be had in England from our stone walls, hath lost some inches of liquor.
1878 in Sir E. Reed Japan (1880) I. 8 The vegetation now begins to develop under a powerful insolation.
1885 Gardeners' Chron. 23 372 No where else is the effect of insolation more distinctly observed than in the Arctic regions.
2. In specific senses.
a. Exposure of some substance to the sun's rays, as for the purpose of drying, bleaching, or maturing.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [noun] > bleaching > bleaching by exposure
insolation1617
grassing1705
croft-bleaching1875
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > to heat of sun > for drying, bleaching, etc.
insolation1617
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 345 Insolation is the preparation of simple compound things by the heat of sunne in the summer, a gentle fire in the winter.
1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 163 Expose it for Insolation a week or ten dayes.
1706 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 25 2265 Divers ways of making Salt from Sea-Water; first by insolation only, as Bay Salt.
1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Insolation..In Pharmacy, the drying of substances in the rays of the sun; also, the blanching or bleaching of substances by the same means.
b. Medical treatment by exposure of the body to the sun's rays.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by fresh air, sunlight, etc. > [noun]
insolation1626
air bath1746
sea-bath1785
sun cure1853
air cure1856
climatotherapy1875
mountain cure1876
heliotherapy1890
climatotherapeutics1896
1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 33 in Sylua Syluarum We vse these Towers, according to their seuerall Heights, and Situations, for Insolation, Refrigeration, Conseruation.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 174 The dry [bath]; such as Insolation, or being exposed to the heat of the sun.
1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Insolation..In Medicine, exposure to the sun's rays as a means of cure.
c. Injurious exposure (of animals or plants) to the sun's rays or to excessive heat; also, disease thus caused: (a) sunstroke; (b) = heliosis n. 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > sunstroke or heatstroke
sun heatOE
calenture1593
insolation1758
coup de soleil1772
sunstroke1787
star-stroke1837
touch of the sun1867
thermoplegia1909
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > exposure to injurious heat or fire > of the sun
insolation1758
sun scorch1860
1758 W. Battie Treat. Madness vii. 47 One case of Consequential Madness..is an effect of Insolation, or what the French call coup du Soleil.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 178 Such fever seems less attributable to the reflux of bile into the blood, than to the insolation or solar excitement.
1885 Cent. Mag. 29 661 Disabled in the deserts by insolation produced by excessive heat.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 499 In thermic fever or insolation the object is to reduce the temperature.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xii. 205 Those loosely used terms, sun-stroke, heat-stroke, coup de soleil, insolation.
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