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单词 lachrymation
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lachrymationn.

Brit. /ˌlakrᵻˈmeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌlækrəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: 1500s lacrimacion, 1500s lacrymacyon, 1600s 1800s– lacrimation, 1600s– lachrymation, 1700s– lacrymation, 1900s– lachrimation.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin lacrimātiōn-, lacrimātiō.
Etymology: < classical Latin lacrimātiōn-, lacrimātiō shedding of tears, weeping < lacrimāt- , past participial stem of lacrimāre lachrymate v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Middle French lacrimacion, lacrymation (a1430; rare).With the formal variation compare discussion at lachryma n.
1. The shedding of tears; weeping; a fit or bout of weeping.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun]
wopOE
reminga1200
weepingc1200
weepc1275
dolec1290
greetinga1300
greeta1325
grota1325
teara1340
tear1377
lachrymation?1530
gree?1567
waterworks1634
pipation1656
fletion1716
piping1779
ploration1828
blarting1898
?1530 Dialoges Creatures Moralysed lxviii. sig. X.iv Whan ye wydowe had shewyd it to his fader with great lacrymacyon and mourninge he gaue his owne sonne to the same wydowe foreuer.
1541 Schole House of Women sig. C.ivv Myghty Samson, two wyues had..The fyrst hym caused, by lacrymacyon His probleme to her.
1661 Eliana iv. 137 Looking upon her with eyes springing forth tears I accompanied her in her lacrymations.
1663 W. Clark Marciano i. v. 9 I have..whip'd him thus—for half an hour together, untill his abundant lachrymation had mov'd compassion: I knew that was the only way to disciplinate him.
1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova Lachrymation, a weeping or shedding of Tears.
1770 J. Towers Evangelical Poems 99 Nor tho' I'd mourn'd for sin, had ever wept, From lachrymation, 'gainst my will, was kept.
1844 S. K. Hoshour Lett. to Esq. Pedant xi. 33 Lachrymations and boations became ubiquitous.
1896 E. Thurston Anthropol. Todas & Kotas 175 Some of the women..commenced to cry freely, and the wailing and lachrymation gradually spread round the circle.
1969 Listener 22 May 736/3 The self-congratulatory lachrymations typical of late-night American TV serials.
2001 N. J. van Haeringen in A. J. J. M. Vingerhoets & R. R. Cornelius Adult Crying ii. 26 This affective lacrimation is controlled in the frontal cortex and in the anterior portion of the limbic lobe of the brain.
2. The production or overproduction of tears (as a physiological or pathological process).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > wateriness
lachrymation1598
watery humour1612
epiphora1657
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. vi. iv. f. 29v/1 The thirde is called the temporalle, or vayne of the temples..: we open those vaynes agaynst the superfluous lachrimation of the eyes.
1684 J. Browne Adenochoiradelogia i. iv. 35 They do neither demonstrate the way of lachrymation, nor the vessels themselves that should transmit these tears to the Eyes.
1788 W. Black Compar. View Mortality Human Species 112 Morbillous symptoms are fever.., acrid defluxion from the fauces, nose, and eyes, with hoarseness, sneezing, and lachrymation.
1863 R. F. Burton Abeokuta I. 204 The priest will squirt capsicum..into the eyes of the accused, and lacrymation proves guilt.
1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals vi. 171 A strong light acting on the retina, when in a normal condition, has very little tendency to cause lacrymation.
1908 Glasgow Med. Jrnl. 69 269 In many cases of eye-strain,..lachrymation is often a prominent feature.
2009 T. Shibamoto & L. Bjeldanes Introd. Food Toxicol. (ed. 2) vii. 179 The effects include increased salivation, lachrymation, and perspiration followed by vomiting and diarrhea.
3. Abnormal exudation of fluid from a tree or plant or from a part of the body; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 181 In the stead of pus of a laudable constitution, there doth weep forth the lachrymations of an ichorous substance.
1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) xxvii. 133 To these may be added Siderations and even Plagues, Tumors, Distortions, Lacrimations, [etc.].
1679 J. Yonge Currus Triumphalis 58 I believe no man that hath conversed with Wounds, and corroding applications to them, but hath found a large gleet to flow from Wounds of magnitude and amputated Stumps; and the more the nearer to the Joint, the former being the lacrymation of the lymphatick Vessels and Nerves, the latter, the efflux of the Joint Serum.
1855 Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 123 Watery flux.—A profuse discharge hitherto usually observed in vines during spring in cold climates... This is sometimes called lachrymation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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