单词 | investient |
释义 | † investientadj. Obsolete. That covers or envelops something; enveloping.Chiefly designating the outer or surrounding crust of a stone or fossil. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > enfolding or enveloping folden1435 folded1570 involving1611 investing1615 circumvolving1638 obsident1644 circumvolved1668 enfolding1669 investient1695 shrining1826 enveloping1828 enwrapping1850 scarfing1897 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 234 Freed from its investient Shell. 1728 J. Woodward Catal. Addit. Eng. Native Fossils 101 Having no investient Crust. 1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller iii. xxv. 186 The Nutmeg..is separated from..its investient Coat the Mace, before it is sent over to us. 1768 A. Catcott Treat. Deluge (ed. 2) iii. 291 (note) Stones that are worn to a roundness, which was not natural to them,..have never any coat or investient crust. 1811 A. Rees Cycl. (1819) XVII. at Gymnopyris Naked, or not covered with any investient coat or crust. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019). < |
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