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单词 moisting
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moistingn.

Forms: see moist v. and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moist v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < moist v. + -ing suffix1.
Obsolete.
The action of making something moist; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [noun] > action or process
wettinga1340
moistinga1398
wateringa1398
humectation1544
moistening1559
madefaction1583
irrigationa1618
aquation1623
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 154v Aftir þe moystynge of þe londe, þe h[epes of] grauel toschedeþ.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 48v (MED) Fro þe bone þat is cleped laudiformi..þer ben two orifice þurȝ þe whiche þe spatel passeþ, and it is as it were a matras and a moistinge to þe tunge.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 10570 (MED) In þe erthe may no þing spring But of watir it haue moisting.
?1541 R. Copland tr. Galen Terapeutyke sig. Aiv Sease ye bathynge & moystynge.
1544 T. Phaer Of Pestilence (1553) sig. Lijv Ther vpon folowed the excessiue humectacyon or moisting of mans body.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

moistingadj.

Brit. /ˈmɔɪstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɔɪstɪŋ/
Forms: see moist v. and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moist v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < moist v. + -ing suffix2.
Now rare (poetic).
That moistens. Also: made moist.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > wetting
moistinga1382
moistening1580
watering1581
madefying1646
humectant1659
wetting1661
irrigating1669
irriguous1684
humectating1738
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xi. 10 [In] þe lond of Egipt..mooystynge [a1425 L.V. moist] waters been lad.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 613 (MED) Medecynes þat softene aȝeyne þe hardenesse þat leuen after þe restorynge of membres schal be more moystinge þan resoluynge.
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iv. f. 8v It keepeth of the moysting showers of rayne.
1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xl. 275 All which purgers are to be..mingled with some moysting decoction.
a1864 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. (1993) 83 The moisting grass unteazed and free..He grazes on.
1975 S. Heaney North 22 Like a long sword sheathed in its moisting burial clays, the keel stuck fast in the slip of the bank.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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