单词 | metaplasm |
释义 | metaplasmn.1 1. Grammar. Usually with reference to classical languages: the alteration of a word by addition, removal, or transposition of letters or syllables; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > other specific types of word-formation metaplasmOE subunion1534 encapsulation1860 stem-building1870 incorporation1874 recomposition1885 back-formation1888 contamination1888 stem-composition1902 recomposition1964 OE Ælfric Gram. (Durh.) 294 Metaplasmvs, þæt is awend spræc to oðrum hiwe hwilon for fægernysse, hwilon for neode, swaswa is audacter dyrstelice: hit sceolde beon audaciter. OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 90 Æfter þissum hig gehleapað on metaplasmum [Note id est transformatio; causa metri ut gnato pro nato et rellione..pro relligione], þæt ys þæt hig gewurðiað heora spæce and heora meteruersa gesetnyssa. 1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. Ej Metaplasmus, is a transformation of Letters, or sillables in single words..eyther for cause of necessity, or else to make the verse more fine. 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xix. 142 Metaplasms, or alterations of the words form and fauor. 1758 T. Nugent tr. C. Lancelot New Method of Learning Lat. Tongue I. iv. 327 This Metaplasm or transformation is made by adding, taking away, or changing, either a letter, or a syllable. 1889 Hanssen in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 10 39 Intercalarius (but it is possible that this latter is simply a metaplasm for intercalaris). 1906 N.E.D. (at cited word) Metaplasm...The formation of oblique cases from a stem other than that of the nominative. 1956 Mod. Lang. Notes 71 280 A secondary metaplasm (feminization after cara) from a caron. 1987 ELH 54 423 Classical rhetoric calls the addition or subtraction of letters from a word a metaplasm. 2. Rhetoric. The transposition of words from their usual or natural order. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > inversion > transposition of words metathesis1608 metaplasm1617 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 183 Of the rewles of feete metricalle, of metaplasmus [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. de mathaplasmo], of dialog metricalle. 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. x. 475 So fares it in this Metaplasme of names many times: Dignos et indignos non iam discernit dignitas, sed confundit. 1898 G. Pearlson Twelve Cent. Jewish Persecution 234 The Jewish party were restrained in speech & argument, whilst the Christian one quoted all the myriads of Rabbinic paradoxes, witticisms, metaplasms, satires & ambages, as the essential tenets, nay the very crux of Judaism. 1991 Yale French Stud. (Special Issue) 137 Metaplasm raises the broader issue of the pathology of the poetic signifier. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). metaplasmn.2 Biology. Chiefly Botany. Now historical. Originally: the granular (as opposed to the hyaline) portion of cytoplasm, containing various inclusions. Later also: granular substance within a nucleus, esp. that of a plant oocyte or ovum. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > substance > cell > cell substance > [noun] > protoplasm or cytoplasm > types or forms of cytoblastema1840 cell sap1842 hyaline1864 metaplasm1875 plasson1879 nucleoplasm1882 reticulum1883 hyaloplasm1886 mitome1886 paramitome1886 spongioplasm1886 paraplasm1887 paraplasma1891 trophoplasm1892 kinoplasm1894 blepharoplast1897 plasmagel1923 plasmasol1923 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 41 (note) J. Hanstein gives to the substances mingled with the true protoplasm and which undergo many transformations, the collective name of ‘Metaplasm’. 1877 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 17 403 Granular matter, which as metaplasm is distinguished from the hyaline protoplasm in which such granules float. 1898 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 190 403 (note) He [sc. Strasburger] believed, however, that the metaplasm masked the real chromatin. 1910 Amer. Naturalist 44 600 Some of the so-called metaplasm has about the same position as the latest recognizable stage of the spirem. 1956 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 43 640/1 Chamberlain..noted the general similarity of this material to that found in mature egg nuclei in the Abietinae and designated by Strasburger (1884) as metaplasm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1OEn.21875 |
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