单词 | perflable |
释义 | † perflableadj. Obsolete (rare after early 17th cent.). That may be blown through; open or permeable to the air or wind; allowing ventilation. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [adjective] > open to the air or allowing ventilation perflable?1440 perspirable1583 perflatile1667 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 1002 (MED) Make hit [sc. the threshing floor] high, on euery half perflable [L. perflabili]. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 298 Epicurus makes the Gods bright-shining, transparent and perflable. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 6 In an house, to the end it may be perflable, it is expedient to haue windowes on euery side. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Perflable. To be blowne thorow. c1850 E. A. Andrews Copious Lat.-Eng. Lexicon 1112/3 That can be blown through, perflable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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