单词 | latitancy |
释义 | latitancyn. The state of lying concealed or hid; spec. in Physiology and Pathology (see quots.). Of an animal: Hibernation. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > hibernation latitancy1646 hibernation1816 aestivation1839 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [noun] coverture1393 laina1400 coveringc1400 palliation?c1425 lainingc1440 lonea1450 hudder-mudder1461 hugger-mugger1529 concealment1565 celation1567 hugger1576 burial1596 smothering1602 suppression1651 disguisal1652 hugger-mug1654 latitancy1701 cover-up1927 wraps1939 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 163 [The Cameleon] by reason of its..latitancy in the winter..will long subsist without a visible sustentation. View more context for this quotation 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xiii. 223 By this way Aristotle through all his books of Animals, distinguisheth their times of generation, latitancy, migration, sanity, and venation. View more context for this quotation 1701 T. Beverley Grand Apoc. Question 37 If we can find according to Prophecy there ought to be such a Latitancy, or Secrecy of the Papacy. 1888 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Latitancy,..A term expressive of the hypothesis that the ovum and the spermatozoa lie in wait for each other, as it were, after insemination. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Latitancy, the condition of lying in wait, of waiting for development under favorable circumstances. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1646 |
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