单词 | perspirable |
释义 | perspirableadj.n. Now rare. A. adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [adjective] > open to the air or allowing ventilation perflable?1440 perspirable1583 perflatile1667 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke vii. 87 Let the sicke remaine in an ayer, that is cold and perspirable. Let him eschew hote ayer and hote bathes. ?1624 G. Chapman tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 175 [Ida] Where every tree Beares up in aire such perspirable Heights. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 57 in Justice Vindicated Joyning this perspirable region with the celestial and intelligible. 1681 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. 197 Let the Doors and Windows be stopp'd with Clay, that the House be not perspirable with Wind or Air. a. Of a body, skin, etc.: capable of perspiring; liable to perspire. Also: allowing the passage of perspiration. Also occasionally figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > letting or forcing out (a substance, etc.) > [adjective] perspirable1603 perspiring1699 perspiratory1724 perspirative1736 perspiratinga1789 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > emitting > emitting as a vapour > emitted as a vapour or liquid > capable of being perspirable1744 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 763 Wine..causeth the body to be perspirable, quicke and active, opening all the pores and passages thereof, giving way unto the fantasies and imaginations easily to runne forth. 1690 R. Boyle Christian Virtuoso i. 63 Who would believe that the Poyson..should be able..to continue in the warm and still perspirable Body of the bitten person? 1744 tr. H. Boerhaave Acad. Lect. Theory Physic III. 309 The whole Surface of the human Body..is perspirable. 1791 B. Bell & N. B. Waters Syst. Surg. 52 Not only the parts affected, but even the whole surface of the body be kept as clean and perspirable as possible. 1860 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (rev. ed.) xi. 136 The skin absorbs the water and becomes softer and more perspirable. b. Capable of emitting or exhaling any other substance. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > emitting > capable of emitting an effluvium perspirable1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iv. 79 For Electricks will not commonly attract, except they grow hot or become perspirable . View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Perspirable,..that may, or is able to breathe through. c. Of, relating to, or involving perspiration. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > [adjective] transpirative1578 sudatory1598 hydrotical1616 perspirable1646 hydrotic1671 hidrotic1728 perspiratory1769 perspirable1805 transpiratory1855 1805 [see perspirable point n. at Compounds]. 1822 Examiner 16 June 380/2 Her fan, which..he is essaying to pick up by a puffing and perspirable exertion. 1850 W. Horsell & R. T. Trall Hydropathy for People 234 The sensation of warmth should be the test for the time of remaining packed, not the perspirable or non-perspirable condition of the body. 3. Able to be secreted in or as perspiration. Also: able to be exhaled. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > [adjective] transpirative1578 sudatory1598 hydrotical1616 perspirable1646 hydrotic1671 hidrotic1728 perspiratory1769 perspirable1805 transpiratory1855 the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [adjective] perspirable1646 transudedc1865 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 270 The Amnios is a generall investment, containing the sudorous or thin serosity perspirable through the skin. View more context for this quotation 1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 567 The Pores..are a very convenient and open passage for the discharge of the more noxious and perspirable parts of the Blood. c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. i. 5 Porous for the Passage of the Sweat, or other perspirable Matter. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §88 Perspirable humours not discharged will stagnate and putrefy. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 9 Speculations concerning the perspirable Fluids of Human Bodies. 1844 Times 15 Feb. 11/3 Bell's Medicated Tissue Paper..does not produce irritation or collect perspirable matter. 1996 Alternative Therapies Health & Med. (Nexis) July Diaphoretics promote or cause perspirable discharge by the skin. In plural. Substances that can be secreted in or as perspiration. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [noun] Sanctorian perspiration1740 perspirables1797 1797 J. Downing Treat. Disorders Horned Cattle 30 A regular discharge, or secretion of perspirables. CompoundsΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > [noun] > temperature at which one starts perspiring perspirable point1805 1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 496 To bring down the animal heat to the perspirable point. ΚΠ 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 158 The Bloud, as it..passes to and fro, through the perspirable Veins. Derivatives perspiraˈbility n. now rare capability of perspiring; liability to perspire. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > [noun] > capability of perspirability1650 1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Deliramenta Catarrhi 73 Those furious motions and actions of the matrix are not to be ascribed to any sympathy dependent on the necessity of Perspirability. 1745 Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 145 On account of the Perspirability of their Bodies. 1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 529 A salutary relaxation and perspirability of the skin. 1939 L. de Vries German-Eng. Sci. Dict. 39 Andünstbarkeit,..evaporability, perspirability. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1583 |
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