单词 | mordication |
释义 | † mordicationn. Obsolete. 1. A biting, burning, or prickling sensation. Also: burning or caustic quality. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > smarting or stinging stingc900 smartingOE smarta1225 stanginga1300 stinging1398 mordicationa1413 stang1513 urtication1655 smartness1682 verberation1688 mordicancy1693 a1413 in J. Norri Names of Sicknesses in Eng. 1400–1550 (1992) 117 Pynchyng & prikkyng & mordicacioun as in bytyng of þe sensible membris as þouȝ þere were þornys or nedelis pynchyng. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 37 v He feleþ within þe eie puncture & mordicacioun [?c1425 Paris bitynge; L. mordicationem], as if þer war grauel within it. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 177v (MED) Emathitez is a rede stone..it wanteþ mordicacioun. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 127v (MED) Alle medicyns exsictatif wiþouten mordicacioun is riȝt good & profitable. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. Piv Whey is..washyng & leusynge and therin is no mordication. 1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 21 When throughe drinkinge of wine there is any upbraidinge and mordication in the Stomacke. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician x. 353 The Meat creates trouble and mordication, so that it cannot be retained. 1732 G. Smith Institutiones Chirurgicæ i. x. 138 Covering over the new incarned Flesh with a proper Tegument..effected by virtue of a drying and astringing Faculty (without Acrimony or Mordication). 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mordication, inflammation of the skin with burning and prickling. 2. The action or an act of sinking in the teeth. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Mordication, a biting or fastning the teeth deep in anything. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1413 |
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