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单词 lubricity
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lubricityn.

Brit. /luːˈbrɪsᵻti/, /ljuːˈbrɪsᵻti/, U.S. /luˈbrɪsᵻdi/
Etymology: < French lubricité or Latin lūbricitās, < lūbricus lubric adj.
1.
a. Slipperiness, smoothness; oiliness. Also in plural.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [noun] > oiliness > lubricity or oiliness and slipperiness
slippernessa1000
slipperiness1562
slipperishness1598
lubricity1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 477 The same liquor is easie to diuide into drops, and as apt again by the lubricitie thereof, to run into an humor.
1634 T. Carew Cœlum Britanicum 5 Hebe through the lubricity of the pavement tumbling over the Halfe-pace.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues i. ii. 179 The manifold Incompossibilities and Lubricities of Matter, that..would [not] be fit for any thing, if its shapes..were not..infinitely varied.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 165 The same lubricity was found in all, And all was moist to the warm touch.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 431 The shrillness or roughness of the voice depends on the internal diameter of the glottis, its elasticity, motility, and lubricity.
1831 S. Smith Speeches in Wks. (1859) II. 219/1 Hands, accustomed to the scented lubricity of soap.
1878 R. W. Emerson Fortune of Republic in Wks. (1906) III. 391 In creeping out of one snake-skin into another of equal..lubricity.
b. spec. in Pathology. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [noun] > weakness or slipperiness
lubricity1547
lubrification1692
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. ix Abhorsion..may come by ventosyte and lubrycyte of humours in the matryx.
?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (1585) D ij For ye lubricitie of ye bowelles when the meate cometh furth vndigestyd.
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 225 It..roborates the Bowels, corects their Lubricity.
1755 S. Johnson Let. 31 Dec. (1992) I. 120 A very probable remedy for indigestion and lubricity of the bowels.
2. figurative.
a. ‘Slipperiness’, shiftiness; unsteadiness, instability; elusiveness. Also with plural.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun]
unsadnessc1384
slipperness1401
slithernessa1492
untrust1563
lubricity1613
slipperinessa1618
fallacy1646
fallibleness1646
inevidence1658
undeterminationa1676
unevidencea1676
infidelity1777
untrustworthiness1808
unreliability1809
unreliableness1844
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [noun]
tergiversation1570
evasiona1616
slipperiness1656
lubricity1792
shiftiness1839
phenakisma1863
evasiveness1863
pussy-footedness1917
1613 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 3) Lubricitie, lightnesse, slipery, inconstant.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxi. 87 The lubricitie of mundan greatnesse.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 213 How necessary it is that the holy Prophecies should..be made of uncertain Interpretation by undeterminable lubricities.
1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 30. 235 This lubricity of manner, and alienation of thought in his neighbour.
1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 505 The speech, in their judgment, exhibits more of the lubricity of the clever tactician than of the serious designs of the minister.
1874 J. L. Motley John of Barneveld (1879) II. xi. 47 The one ally on whom they had a right to depend..was slipping out of their grasp with distracting lubricity.
b. Volubility, glibness. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun]
overspeecheOE
tongue-itch1540
multiloquy1542
long tongue1557
garrulity1581
slipperiness1589
polylogy1602
volubility1602
loquacity1603
lubricity1603
tonguiness1607
overspeakinga1610
talkativeness1609
philology1623
tongue-vice1628
glibness1633
futility1640
linguacity1656
garrulousness1727
linguosity1727
loquaciousness1727
multiloquiousness1727
jaw1748
multiloquence1760
flippancy1789
verbal diarrhoea1808
magpiety1832
big mouth1834
pleniloquence1838
chattiness1876
open-mouthedness1883
gabbiness1887
garrulance1890
irreticence1919
talkiness1934
ear-bashing1945
mee-mawing1974
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 202 The bulwarke of reason should..be set against it [the tongue], which..may stay.. that overflowing and inconstant lubricitie which it hath.
1657 M. Hawke Killing is Murder & No Murder Pref. 1 Defamation proceeding from the lubricity of the tongue.
c. Mobility, suppleness. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > loose or stiff condition > [noun]
starknessOE
lithenessa1464
mobility1528
leathwakeness1548
stiffness1552
supplement1583
suppleness1603
spring1641
limber1786
lubricity1809
limberness1835
lissomness1857
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. ii. 184 You would not have been a martyr to the gout, and your limbs would have performed their functions with lubricity.
3. Lasciviousness, lewdness, wantonness. Also with plural an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun]
lustc1000
goleheada1325
luxury1340
luxurec1374
concupiscencec1386
gigletrya1387
nicetya1387
flesh-lusta1400
lovereda1400
sensualities1477
lascivity1490
lubricitya1492
libidinosity1509
luxuriousness1542
veneriousness1547
rammishness1552
luxe1558
ustion1559
lustinessa1575
luxurity1576
lusting1580
by-lusting1583
lasciviousness1590
lusciousness1594
epithymy1600
concupiscency1608
libidinousness1611
lustfulness1611
concupiscentiality1612
rampancy1652
venereousness1659
ustulation1660
lasciviency1664
salaciousness1727
lech1796
lustihood1798
randinessc1890
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. li. f. cviii/1 The poore doughter was two yere liuynge in lubrycyte and lecherye.
1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries sig. m2 Mens vaine pleasures and idle lubricities.
1611 R. Richmond in T. Coryate Crudities sig. e2v The Ladyes of Lubricity that liue in the Bordello.
1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxi From the Lechery of those Fauns, [he] thinks he has sufficiently prov'd, that Satyre is deriv'd from them. As if Wantonness and lubricity, were Essential to that sort of Poem.
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 457 This lubricity was..very far from being general, and we had reason to believe that not a single married woman was guilty of infidelity.
1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. cxl Mischief and lubricity are..shadowed forth in the likeness of the monkey.
1883 M. Arnold in Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 2/1 What man is there that knoweth not that the city of the French is a worshipper of the great goddess Lubricity?
1902 Onlooker's Note-bk. ii. 12 Women gaze unmoved on the most risky plays and freely canvass the lubricities of life.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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