单词 | moisting |
释义 | † moistingn. 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. 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). < n.a1398adj.a1382 |
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