obliterationn.

Brit.

/əˌblɪtəˈreɪʃn/, U.S.

/əˌblɪdəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/,

/oʊˌblɪdəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: 1500s obliteracione, 1600s– obliteration.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin oblīterātiōn-, oblīterātiō.

Etymology: < classical Latin oblīterātiōn-, oblīterātiō (also oblitterātiō ) effacement from the memory < oblīterāt- (also oblitterāt- ), past participial stem of oblīterāre (also oblitterāre ) obliterate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare French oblitération (1777 in medicine).

a. The action of obliterating or fact of being obliterated; erasure, rubbing out; effacement; eradication.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun]

blottingc1440

obliterationa1527

obliterating1610

rasurea1616

obliterature1711

erasion1790

effacement1797

expungement1891

a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 479 If thou pric a songe make no obliteracione But se thy margent be clene withoute contamynacion.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Obliteration, a blotting out, a cancelling or abolishing.

1670 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts l. 30 This..is of so odious a Condition, as pity it is, there cannot be a total Obliteration of it.

1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 96 Cause, from being the name of a particular object, has become, in consequence of the obliteration of that original signification, a remarkable abbreviation in language.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 223 The examination of almost all valleys in mountainous districts affords abundant proofs of the obliteration of a series of lakes.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xi. 140 Winter..advanced in..well-marked stages as the following:—... A rising of fogs. The embrowning by frost. The collapse of the fungi. An obliteration by snow.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 830/2 Reasons of practical convenience have necessarily favoured the substantial obliteration of state lines as to the enforcement of statutory private rights.

1943 Mind 52 61 From no sort of correlation between space-measures and time-measures can the obliteration of the ontological distinction between space and time be validly inferred.

1981 C. Priest Affirmation xiv. 124 Because it is unconsciousness, the obliteration of all physical and mental processes, the memory dies with the body.

b. Law. The deletion of words in a document, esp. a will.

ΚΠ

1651 W. Leach Propositions 7 Every such person or persons..shall deliver the same Bills, Bonds, &c. safe and uncancelled, without tearing, blotting, obliteration or alteration, and such Goods and Chattels well and unbroken.

1795 J. B. Bird Laws Respecting Wills, Test. & Codicils i. 34 A will may be also revoked in part only, by a partial obliteration of particular bequests, whilst the rest of the will remains.

1884 Rep. Court of Appeals Maryland 61 503 With respect to the competency of the testator to make revocation of a devise by the simple erasure or obliteration of the name of the devisee, I can entertain no doubt whatever.

1923 Federal Reporter 288 835 The alteration consisted in the obliteration of the name of the registered holder and of a numeral in the serial number of the bond.

1966 H. J. B. Cockshutt & A. G. Coates Gibson's Probate (ed. 17) iv. 49 If, however, there is not merely an obliteration, but the substitution of another name or of a different amount, so that it is clear that the intention of the testator was to alter the gift and not to revoke it entirely, the doctrine of dependent relative revocation applies.

1981 C. E. Torcia Wharton's Criminal Law iv. 126 An erasure or obliteration which does not destroy an instrument, but merely changes its nature or import, constitutes forgery.

c. Philately. A postmark used to deface or cancel a postage stamp.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postmarking > postmark

stamp1661

postmark1678

post-office stamp1827

obliterator1869

obliteration1881

1881 Philatelic Rec. 2 166 I find the circular obliteration on a green Britannia, with date attached..on all the green Britannias handstamped ‘fourpence’ that I have met with.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 191/1 The change of colour from black was made in order to render the obliteration (now in black instead of red ink) more distinct.

1942 Stanley Gibbons' Priced Catal. Postage Stamps (ed. 48) i. 3 Maltese Cross obliterations in other colours are rare.

1983 J. Holman S. Phillips' Stamp Collecting (rev. ed.) xi. 94 A postmark is any mark struck on mail passing through the post. A mark employed for defacing stamps on mail is more properly termed an obliteration.

2. Pathology and Biology. The filling up of a vessel, cavity, or passage with inflammatory or fibrous tissue, esp. so as to cause its virtual disappearance; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > obliteration

obliteration1797

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > extinction of function

obliteration1797

1797 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 165 The contents of the vesicles having escaped, it was but reasonable now to look forward to a speedy obliteration of the cavity.

1835 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 444/2 It would be difficult to prove that obliteration of the cavities of veins which nature intended should remain pervious through life, ever takes place but as a consequence of inflammation.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 402 Iodine has been very largely employed by injection into serous cysts..for the purpose of exciting inflammation and causing obliteration of their cavity.

1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. 9 117 The curative effect in aortic aneurism of obliteration of the carotid artery.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 542 The obliteration of the sieve-tubes begins in the oldest external zones of the cortex, and advances..in the centripetal direction.

1900 A. Hill tr. H. Obersteiner Anat. Central Nerv. Organs (ed. 2) 179 As the process advances the lumen of the vessel is diminished, even to obliteration.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 8 July 4/2 Quinacrine apparently acts by creating a local serositis which results in the development of partial or complete obliteration of the serous cavity.

1991 Lancet 19 Oct. 966/2 Exploratory craniotomy disclosed a middle cerebral artery aneurysm without evidence of thrombotic obliteration.

Compounds

obliteration bombing n. heavy bombing intended to destroy a target completely; cf. saturation bombing n. at saturation n. Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of

area bombardment1918

straddling1919

pattern-bombing1933

terror-bombing1933

dive-bombing1935

firebombing1935

blind-bombing1940

blitzing1940

coventrating1940

nuisance bombing1940

scatter bombing1940

coventration1942

carpet bombing1943

obliteration bombing1943

skip-bombing1943

shuttle bombing1944

atom bombing1945

atomic bombing1945

clobbering1948

loft-bombing1956

1943 Spectator 24 Sept. 289/2 (heading) ‘Obliteration’ bombing.

1943 Spectator 8 Oct. 337/2 The question of ‘obliteration bombing’..raises more difficulties than Mr. Johnstone envisages.

1945 L. Mumford Plan of London County (Rebuilding Britain, No. 12) iii. 15 This failure would still be serious..even if obliteration bombing had not been practised.

1964 R. M. Palter Ethics 208 Germany opposed the use of obliteration bombing, perhaps out of mere self-interest.

1991 Internat. Security 15 155 The conventional obliteration bombing of Japan's cities by LeMay's B-29s, initiated in March 1945.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	obliteration
释义	obliterationn. Brit. /əˌblɪtəˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /əˌblɪdəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/, /oʊˌblɪdəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: 1500s obliteracione, 1600s– obliteration. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin oblīterātiōn-, oblīterātiō. Etymology: < classical Latin oblīterātiōn-, oblīterātiō (also oblitterātiō ) effacement from the memory < oblīterāt- (also oblitterāt- ), past participial stem of oblīterāre (also oblitterāre ) obliterate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare French oblitération (1777 in medicine). 1. a. The action of obliterating or fact of being obliterated; erasure, rubbing out; effacement; eradication. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] blottingc1440 obliterationa1527 obliterating1610 rasurea1616 obliterature1711 erasion1790 effacement1797 expungement1891 a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 479 If thou pric a songe make no obliteracione But se thy margent be clene withoute contamynacion. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Obliteration, a blotting out, a cancelling or abolishing. 1670 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts l. 30 This..is of so odious a Condition, as pity it is, there cannot be a total Obliteration of it. 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 96 Cause, from being the name of a particular object, has become, in consequence of the obliteration of that original signification, a remarkable abbreviation in language. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 223 The examination of almost all valleys in mountainous districts affords abundant proofs of the obliteration of a series of lakes. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xi. 140 Winter..advanced in..well-marked stages as the following:—... A rising of fogs. The embrowning by frost. The collapse of the fungi. An obliteration by snow. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 830/2 Reasons of practical convenience have necessarily favoured the substantial obliteration of state lines as to the enforcement of statutory private rights. 1943 Mind 52 61 From no sort of correlation between space-measures and time-measures can the obliteration of the ontological distinction between space and time be validly inferred. 1981 C. Priest Affirmation xiv. 124 Because it is unconsciousness, the obliteration of all physical and mental processes, the memory dies with the body. b. Law. The deletion of words in a document, esp. a will. ΚΠ 1651 W. Leach Propositions 7 Every such person or persons..shall deliver the same Bills, Bonds, &c. safe and uncancelled, without tearing, blotting, obliteration or alteration, and such Goods and Chattels well and unbroken. 1795 J. B. Bird Laws Respecting Wills, Test. & Codicils i. 34 A will may be also revoked in part only, by a partial obliteration of particular bequests, whilst the rest of the will remains. 1884 Rep. Court of Appeals Maryland 61 503 With respect to the competency of the testator to make revocation of a devise by the simple erasure or obliteration of the name of the devisee, I can entertain no doubt whatever. 1923 Federal Reporter 288 835 The alteration consisted in the obliteration of the name of the registered holder and of a numeral in the serial number of the bond. 1966 H. J. B. Cockshutt & A. G. Coates Gibson's Probate (ed. 17) iv. 49 If, however, there is not merely an obliteration, but the substitution of another name or of a different amount, so that it is clear that the intention of the testator was to alter the gift and not to revoke it entirely, the doctrine of dependent relative revocation applies. 1981 C. E. Torcia Wharton's Criminal Law iv. 126 An erasure or obliteration which does not destroy an instrument, but merely changes its nature or import, constitutes forgery. c. Philately. A postmark used to deface or cancel a postage stamp. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postmarking > postmark stamp1661 postmark1678 post-office stamp1827 obliterator1869 obliteration1881 1881 Philatelic Rec. 2 166 I find the circular obliteration on a green Britannia, with date attached..on all the green Britannias handstamped ‘fourpence’ that I have met with. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 191/1 The change of colour from black was made in order to render the obliteration (now in black instead of red ink) more distinct. 1942 Stanley Gibbons' Priced Catal. Postage Stamps (ed. 48) i. 3 Maltese Cross obliterations in other colours are rare. 1983 J. Holman S. Phillips' Stamp Collecting (rev. ed.) xi. 94 A postmark is any mark struck on mail passing through the post. A mark employed for defacing stamps on mail is more properly termed an obliteration. 2. Pathology and Biology. The filling up of a vessel, cavity, or passage with inflammatory or fibrous tissue, esp. so as to cause its virtual disappearance; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > obliteration obliteration1797 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > extinction of function obliteration1797 1797 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 165 The contents of the vesicles having escaped, it was but reasonable now to look forward to a speedy obliteration of the cavity. 1835 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 444/2 It would be difficult to prove that obliteration of the cavities of veins which nature intended should remain pervious through life, ever takes place but as a consequence of inflammation. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 402 Iodine has been very largely employed by injection into serous cysts..for the purpose of exciting inflammation and causing obliteration of their cavity. 1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. 9 117 The curative effect in aortic aneurism of obliteration of the carotid artery. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 542 The obliteration of the sieve-tubes begins in the oldest external zones of the cortex, and advances..in the centripetal direction. 1900 A. Hill tr. H. Obersteiner Anat. Central Nerv. Organs (ed. 2) 179 As the process advances the lumen of the vessel is diminished, even to obliteration. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 8 July 4/2 Quinacrine apparently acts by creating a local serositis which results in the development of partial or complete obliteration of the serous cavity. 1991 Lancet 19 Oct. 966/2 Exploratory craniotomy disclosed a middle cerebral artery aneurysm without evidence of thrombotic obliteration. Compounds obliteration bombing n. heavy bombing intended to destroy a target completely; cf. saturation bombing n. at saturation n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of area bombardment1918 straddling1919 pattern-bombing1933 terror-bombing1933 dive-bombing1935 firebombing1935 blind-bombing1940 blitzing1940 coventrating1940 nuisance bombing1940 scatter bombing1940 coventration1942 carpet bombing1943 obliteration bombing1943 skip-bombing1943 shuttle bombing1944 atom bombing1945 atomic bombing1945 clobbering1948 loft-bombing1956 1943 Spectator 24 Sept. 289/2 (heading) ‘Obliteration’ bombing. 1943 Spectator 8 Oct. 337/2 The question of ‘obliteration bombing’..raises more difficulties than Mr. Johnstone envisages. 1945 L. Mumford Plan of London County (Rebuilding Britain, No. 12) iii. 15 This failure would still be serious..even if obliteration bombing had not been practised. 1964 R. M. Palter Ethics 208 Germany opposed the use of obliteration bombing, perhaps out of mere self-interest. 1991 Internat. Security 15 155 The conventional obliteration bombing of Japan's cities by LeMay's B-29s, initiated in March 1945. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1527
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