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单词 metabole
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metabolen.

Brit. /mᵻˈtabəli/, /mᵻˈtabl̩i/, /mɛˈtabəli/, /mɛˈtabl̩i/, U.S. /məˈtæbəli/
Forms: 1600s– metabole, 1700s–1800s metabola.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin metabola; Greek μεταβολή.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin metabola, metabole (see below) and their etymon ancient Greek μεταβολή change < μετα- meta- prefix + βολή a throw ( < an ablaut variant of the base of βάλλειν to throw: see ballista n.), after μεταβάλλειν to change.Senses of the ancient Greek word include those relating to medicine (compare sense 1), music (compare sense 3), rhetoric (compare quot. 1981 at sense 2), and politics (compare quot. 1983 at sense 2). Post-classical Latin metabola and metabole are attested from the 5th or 6th cent. in senses relating to medicine (in translations of Greek medical writers), music, and rhetoric, but the Greek word is found already in classical Latin authors (e.g. in Quintilian with reference to rhetoric and music). With uses relating to language or rhetoric compare also Middle French, French métabole (1553), after Quintilian.
Originally Medicine.
1. Medicine. A change in the symptoms, treatment, etc., of a disease. Cf. metabasis n. 2. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 196 Metabole,..a change of Time, Air, or Diseases.
1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) Metabasis, and Metabole, signifies any Change from one thing to another, either in the curative Indications, or the Symptoms of a Distemper.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Metabola, in medicine, a change of time, air, or disease.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Metabola, Metabole, terms for a change, or mutation; a change of place; also the same as Metabasis.
2. More broadly: any change.
ΚΠ
1950 Speculum 25 527 By a not uncommon metabole Bourgarioi is said to have become Boulgaroi.
1981 P. B. Burrell & E. M. Slotkin tr. ‘Group μ’ Gen. Rhetoric Introd. 21 Through metaboles, literary discourse is made to close in on itself.
1983 M. I. Finley Politics in Ancient World (1994) v. 102 There were many measures that did not bring about a transformation, a metabole.
3. Music. A change in the pitch of a musical note or melody.
ΚΠ
1957 New Oxf. Hist. Music I. 373 The writer dubiously named ‘Cleonides’..first defines metabole as change from one tonos or systema or genus to another.
1980 New Grove Dict. Music (at cited word) Bacchius..distinguished seven types of metabolē.
1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Southeast Asian arts This scale may be constructed in any of seven levels or tones of the Thai tuning system. Further, through a process called metabole, melodies may move from one level to another.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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