单词 | abruption |
释义 | abruptionn. 1. The action or an act of breaking off or away from something; an interruption; a sudden curtailment. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [noun] > interruption interruption1489 abruption1585 interpellation1611 rupture1639 interrupture1648 fraction1661 1585 T. Este in R. P. tr. D. Ortúñez de Calahorra Second Pt. First Bk. Myrrour of Knighthood i. ii. To Rdr. Both the quaint beginning, and the quoy abruption, shall bee brought to a concord, though no conclusion. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. ii. 63 Troy. O Cressed how often haue I wisht me thus. Cres. Wisht my Lord? the gods graunt? O my Lord? Troy. What should they graunt? what makes this pretty abruption . View more context for this quotation a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vi. 211 The pseudo-prophetical spirit..is also conjoined with alienations and abruptions of mind. 1701 T. Beverley Praise of Glory 24 If any had Placed themselves in Christ, it had been an Abruption from the Free Grace of predestination. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xlii. 164 Curse upon thy hard heart, thou vile caitiff! How hast thou tortured me, by thy designed abruption! 1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 108 Thoughts, which to a reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance, are concatenated without any abruption. 1832 N. Amer. Rev. July 177 The startling abruptions, and even dislocations of his periods. 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral ii. 40 Sudden and total abruption of all intercourse. 1986 T. Tanner Jane Austen i. 37 There is a tendency to move away from the abruptions and abrasions of direct speech. 1995 M. Steinberg Symphony 543 Shostakovich juxtaposes the most disparate musical elements and moves by startling abruptions. 2. Now chiefly Medicine. Snapping, breaking; breaking or tearing away (esp. of portions of a mass); an instance of this. In later use: spec. = abruptio placentae n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] breachOE breakingc975 brusure1382 breaka1400 crasure1413 chininga1420 bursting1487 bruisinga1500 fraction?a1560 chinking1565 springingc1595 infraction1623 disruption1646 abruption1654 diruption1656 chapping1669 chopping1669 fracturea1676 rumple1746 breakage1775 disrupture1785 fracturing1830 disruptment1834 snapping1891 fractionation1926 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > bursting rupture?a1425 rumpurea1492 bursting1526 busting1576 abruption1654 dissilition1660 burst1832 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] > breaking off abruption1654 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xiv. 327 Atoms somewhat Hooked, and so Retentive each of other, as not to be wholly dissociated, or to permit a manifest abruption or breach of continuity, upon pressure. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. iv, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. T4 Effused by the abruption of the glasses. 1702 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth (ed. 2) iv. 172 Those [crystallized bodies] which are inclosed in Stone, Marble, or such other solid Matter..have commonly some of that Matter still adhering to them, or at least Marks of its Abruption from them. 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom II. 166 It is this position of the strata that was the occasion or natural cause of the many abruptions of mountains to the west in this country. 1845 Times 3 Sept. 3/6 There were..the total abruption of the railway near Malton, and the accident at Ganton cross-gates. 1860 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson (rev. ed.) viii. 97 A cleft, which suggested the idea of some sudden abruption of the earth. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) II. xvii. 8 The removal of the softer kinds of polypi should always be by abruption. 1905 J. B. Lee in Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Dis. Women & Children Dec. 897 Neither term expresses prematurity, or that the placenta is normally situated, although abruption conveys a sense of suddenness or unexpectedness. 1984 Ann. Thoracic Surg. 38 526 A patient is described with..partial abruption of the diaphragm from its costal origin. 1993 J. Evans Dangerous Diagnosis viii. 151 ‘Placenta praevia?’ ‘I don't think so... I'm more inclined to opt for placental abruption.’ 2006 Mother & Baby Aug. 43/2 Large abruptions are dangerous because the blood supply to your baby is compromised and an emergency caesarean is needed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1585 |
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