单词 | abreption |
释义 | abreptionn. Now rare (chiefly literary). The action of snatching something away; sudden seizure; complete separation or removal; an instance of this.In quot. 1550: that which has been seized; a haul of booty. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > [noun] rape1436 abreption1550 man-stealing1577 plagium1577 raptc1614 abduction1632 man-stealth1663 plagiary1673 kidnapping1682 enlevement1769 plagiat1809 body-snatching1840 kidnappery1890 snatching1931 shanghaiing1985 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away > quickly or forcibly abreption1550 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > complete separation divorcec1380 divorcement1552 abreption1681 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Funke Actes & Hist. Worlde 1532–50 in tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles f. ccxixv The Turkyshe Armada retourned homewarde with a greate spoyle and abreption of Golde, Syluer, and many poore imprysoned Christians. a1628 J. Preston Riches of Mercy to Men in Misery (1658) 350 Every man is ready to be affected & affrighted with things of this nature, change of state, loss of goods, abreption of life, these things are naturally terrible to us. 1678 G. Hickes Ravillac Redivivus 69 He never was affected with any Consternations, Tremblings, or Abreptions of mind. 1681 H. Hallywell Melampronoea 73 Cardan relates of himself, that he could when he pleased fall into this ἀϕαίρεσις, Disjunction, or Abreption of his Soul from his Body. 1794 G. Travis Lett. to E. Gibbon (ed. 3) iii. 151 M. Griesbach takes it from both Athanasus and Euthalius, and gives it to Elias Cretensus, although he states no authority either for the gift or the abreption. 1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 157/2 This earliest Abreption of this famous Fleece. 1872 J. M'Clintock & J. Strong Cycl. Biblical, Theol., & Eccl. Lit. IV. 623/2 Such an abreption of bodily functions is calculated to enhance the perceptions of celestial verities. 1920 F. Lynde Girl, Horse & Dog xx. 358 I pleaded guilty to the abreption (the obsolete word was mine, but Beasley caught at it at once and begged me to use it in my plea) of the inspection car. 1987 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 17 35 Perhaps..the abstract language, continuing for several stanzas, has imposed a too conscious abreption from the story for the reader to be other than slightly suspicious of it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1550 |
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