单词 | abscind |
释义 | abscindv. 1. transitive. To cut off; to separate, detach. Now rare and literary. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off becarveOE carvec1000 hewc1000 shredc1275 cuta1300 chapc1325 cleavec1330 off-shearc1330 withscore1340 to cut offc1380 colea1400 slivea1400 to score awayc1400 abscisea1500 discidea1513 sharea1529 off-trenchc1530 off-hewc1540 pare1549 detrench1553 slice?1560 detrunk1566 sneck1578 resect1579 shred1580 curtail1594 off-chop1594 lop?1602 disbranch1608 abscind1610 snip1611 circumcise1613 desecate1623 discerpa1628 amputate1638 absciss1639 prescind1640 notch1820 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iii. ii. 68 So this Foedum or Ius Talliatum doth abscinde and cut of the before-General successions, restraining them to the particular Heires of Families. 1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 408 The Surgeon may come somewhat neere the sensible and living parts,..eroding, clipping, and abscinding onely the corrupt flesh. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Abscind, to cut off. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 90. ⁋9 When two syllables likewise are abscinded from the rest, they evidently want some associate sounds to make them harmonious. 1815 E. Quillinan Monthermer v. 136 He was not quite an alien upon earth; Not quite abscinded, in his fate's decree, From all blest bond of consanguinity. 1861 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops I. iii. 145 The flowing locks at the back of his head were abscinded. 1902 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 21 199 We shall have occasion later to refer to this passage, which I am loath to abscind from the original story. 2003 Lit. Rev. (Nexis) 22 Sept. 139 Don't let them abscind your balls. 2. Botany. a. transitive. To cause to undergo abscission; = abscise v. 2a. Only in passive. ΚΠ 1894 W. Somerville & H. M. Ward tr. R. Hartig Text-bk. Dis. Trees 85 The gonidiophores are developed in the form of bristles, at whose apex the gonidia are abscinded. 1956 New Phytologist 55 357 In a few plants the lowest expanding leaf of the apical region was not abscinded. 1990 C. N. Page in K. Kubitzki Families & Genera Vascular Plants I. 353 Minor branchlet systems as well as leaves are regularly abscinded from actively-growing branches. b. intransitive. To undergo abscission; = abscise v. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)] > become detached in other specific manner unglue1693 patch1848 to pull away1858 to pinch off1910 abscind1963 1963 New Phytologist 62 185 They [sc. the cotyledons] will abscind about the twelfth day. 1991 Functional Ecol. 5 676/2 Two types of leaves, perennial and ephemeral, are present on the shrub,..but the ephemeral leaves abscind during late spring. 2001 Jrnl. Environmental Radioactivity 52 136 A variable proportion of the fruitlets may abscind from the tree during development in any year. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1610 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。