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单词 osculatory
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osculatoryn.

Brit. /ˈɒskjᵿlət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɑskjələˌtɔri/
Forms: 1700s– osculatory, 1800s oscultatory (irregular).
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin osculatorium.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin osculatorium tablet to be kissed during Mass (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin ōsculāt- , past participial stem of ōsculārī osculate v. + -ōrium -ory suffix1. Compare earlier osculary n.
Church History (Roman Catholic Church). rare.
A representation (as a painting, statue, etc.) of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, or a saint which is kissed by the priest or people during the celebration of the Mass. Cf. pax n.1
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society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > osculatory > [noun]
paxbred1350
paxc1390
paxboard1405
osculary1537
osculatory1763
1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law I. 265 The parishioners shall find at their own charge..a vessel for the blessed water, an osculatory, a candlestick for the taper at Easter.
1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law II. 130 The osculatory was a tablet or board, with the picture of Christ, or the blessed virgin, or some other of the saints, which after the consecration of the elements in the eucharist, the priest first kissed himself, and then delivered it to the people for the same purpose.
1868 H. T. Riley Memorials London 422 One osculatory, called a ‘paxbred’.
1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1707 Oscultatory, a representation, painted or carved, of Christ or the Virgin, which the priest kissed during the celebration of mass, and then passed to the people for the same purpose.
1916 J. Walsh Mass & Vestments of Catholic Church 340 What is the osculatory? The osculatory is rarely seen at present.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

osculatoryadj.

Brit. /ˈɒskjᵿlət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɑskjələˌtɔri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: osculate v., -ory suffix2.
Etymology: < osculate v. + -ory suffix2. Compare post-classical Latin osculatorius (1388 in a British source in tabula osculatoria ), French osculateur (1701 in sense 1).With osculatory circle (see sense 1) compare French cercle osculateur (1740).
1.
a. Geometry. Of or relating to the osculation of curves or surfaces; osculating. osculatory circle n. = osculating circle n. at osculating adj. Compounds.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [adjective] > osculating
osculatory1753
osculating1816
oscular1869
osculant1879
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. at Curvature Called the circle of curvature..also called, especially by foreign mathematicians, the osculatory circle.
1795 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (at cited word) In a circle, all the Osculatory radii are equal, being the common radius of the circle.
1850 W. H. C. Bartlett Elem. Nat. Philos. i. i. xi. 216 When a body, in virtue of the motive forces which act upon it, describes a curve in space, the effect is the same as though it passed over the arcs of the successive osculatory circles of which the curve is composed.
1877 Analyst 4 116 The centre of the osculatory circle is on the axis of y, at the distance below the centre of the original circle.
1923 Amer. Math. Monthly 30 374 The vector dt1/ du..lies in the osculatory plane.
1970 Canad. Math. Bull. 13 59 An osculatory packing is one in which the spheres Sn are chosen recursively so that from a certain point on Sn+1 is the largest possible sphere contained in R = U\\∪nk=1Sk.
1980 Math. Modelling 1 286 The level curve..reduces to a pair of conics having osculatory contact at the A*5 saddle point.
1995 Physica D. 86 113/1 Non-osculatory circle packings have been extensively studied.
b. Mathematics. Designating a method of interpolating points of a graph by fitting a series of arcs of continuous polynomial functions so as to pass through each known point of the graph.
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1908 J. Buchanan in Jrnl. Inst. Actuaries 42 243 If the method of osculatory interpolation of par. 53 be applied to a series..there will be perfectly smooth junctions at the meeting points.
1946 Q. Appl. Math. 4 46 The explicit Lagrange form of the k-point central interpolation method, as well as of all the interpolation formulae of osculatory interpolation, is extremely simple in its formal appearance.
1976 Jrnl. Computational Physics 20 480 (heading) Inverse Laplace transforms of osculatory and hyperosculatory interpolation polynomials.
2. Of, relating to, or characterized by kissing.
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [adjective]
osculara1785
osculatory1815
snogging1958
1815 Ld. Byron Let. 14 Feb. (1975) IV. 271 He was—as you describe—fulsome and osculatory—especially of an evening.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxv. 242 The two ladies went through the osculatory ceremony.
1881 Ld. Dunraven in 19th Cent. No. 38. 639 It must be an osculatory process more useful than agreeable.
1936 Far Eastern Surv. 5 198/2 Censors.., according to one report, had to cut 8,000 feet of osculatory film last year for the sake of public morals.
1970 Speculum 45 683 The Christians also adopted pagan Roman osculatory practices such as the nuptial kiss.
2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Mar. vi. 10/1 The French kiss..involves the insertion of the tongue into the osculatory partner's mouth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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