单词 | nascent state |
释义 | > as lemmasnascent state nascent state n. the state of coming into existence, beginning to form or develop, etc.; (Chemistry) the state of a nascent substance (cf. sense 2c). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > coming into existence > state of coming into existence nascent state1781 1781 J. Priestley Exper. & Observ. Air (new ed.) II. 84 A true inflammable air is first produced, and in its nascent state, as it may be called, is immediately decomposed. 1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations II. ii. vi. 213 Idolatry is plainly enough described as being only in a nascent state. 1880 E. Cleminshaw tr. C. A. Wurtz Atomic Theory 208 The peculiar activity of hydrogen and oxygen when in the nascent state. 1986 R. Narayan Talkative Man 97 This girl was innocent, her mind in a nascent state. < as lemmas |
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