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单词 perspire
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perspirev.

Brit. /pəˈspʌɪə/, U.S. /pərˈspaɪ(ə)r/
Forms: 1600s– perspire, 1900s– prespire (U.S. regional).
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French perspirer; Latin perspīrāre.
Etymology: < Middle French perspirer to evaporate (1585 in Paré in medical context; subsequently in modern French only from 1845) and its etymon classical Latin perspīrāre to breathe, to blow constantly (of the wind) < per- per- prefix + spīrāre to breathe (see spire v.2). Compare earlier perspirable adj., perspiration n., on which the English verbal uses are probably partly modelled.
1.
a. intransitive. Of a volatile substance: to pass out (esp. through pores) in the form of vapour; to escape by evaporation; to evaporate. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > of something confined > in the form of vapour
oozea1387
perspire1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 196 A man in the morning is lighter in the scale, because in sleep some pounds have perspired . View more context for this quotation
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ i. 7 This Spiritus Mundi..in some places perspires more freely than in other, and causes that different verdant colour of the Grass in certain rings or circles, where the Countrey people fancy the Fairies dance.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 145 [Heat] perspiring forth at the same Outlets with the Water.
1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 268 I let them stand till toward Midsummer, and took no farther care, but now and then giving them fresh Water as it perspired or evaporated.
1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. xiv. 436 The water will perspire through the pores of the cup.
1885 Littell's Living Age 13 June 702/2 The Chinese idea is that they live on dew, and that the wax perspires from the bodies of the insects.
b. transitive. To give off (moisture) through pores, either imperceptibly as vapour, or visibly as liquid. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > letting or forcing out (a substance, etc.) > let or force out (a substance, etc.) [verb (transitive)]
eliminate1628
extravasate1669
perspire1699
extravase1703
1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 175 The Blood of that fineness, that is necessary for it to be perspired.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 88 But when the great quantity of Chyle is perspir'd,..the Spirits are more increas'd, and the Blood is well rarify'd.
1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry iii. xii. 388 To perspire off the crudities of the sap.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 141 The matter he perspired generally smelt sour.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 67 The liquor perspired becomes sensible to us by being collected from a branch introduced into any sufficiently capacious glass vessel.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 18 After the blossom unfolds it perspires a sweet honey-like fluid.
1867 Sci. Amer. 17 Aug. 101/3 The barrels perspire the oil at every pore, and the vapor which steams away from their surface mingles with the air.
2000 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 6 n ‘It was thought that hippos perspired blood,’ Sarro says.
c. intransitive. figurative. To transpire, emerge; to become public. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed
to come to (also in, on) (the) lightOE
sutelea1000
kitheOE
unfoldc1350
disclosea1513
burst1542
to break up1584
to take vent1611
vent1622
bleed1645
emerge1664
to get (also have) vent1668
to get or take wind1668
to stand (appear) confessed1708
eclat1736
perspire1748
transpire1748
to come out1751
develop1805
unroll1807
spunk1808
effloresce1834
to come to the front1871
to show up1879
out1894
evolve1920
to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. ii. 37 If you do, it will, I presume, be in confidence; that nothing may perspire from your own family to contradict what I have given out.
1766 J. Entick New Hist. London I. 142 It never perspired what the..sum amounted unto.
1766 J. Entick New Hist. London I. 265 The affair perspiring.
2. intransitive. Of a wind: to breathe or blow gently. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow gently
breathe1567
perspire1648
breeze1682
waft1804
sniffle1885
zephyr1973
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. S4v What gentle Winds perspire? As if here Never had been the Northern Plunderer To strip the Trees.
3. transitive. To emit or give off (gas, vapour, fire, etc.). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > as a vapour
reekOE
transpire1598
evapour1615
evaporatea1626
exhalea1628
to cast off1674
perspire1680
pant1735
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 329 The Grotta..famous for those pestilential Vapors which it perspires.
a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 54 To make Love infinite perspire Devouring Fire.
1717 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 483 The various Effluvia perspir'd out of our Globe.
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 39 The vapours perspired by the clove tree.
4. intransitive. Of a person or other mammal: to give out watery fluid through the pores of the skin, originally only imperceptibly as vapour, now also visibly as fluid droplets or sweat as a result of heat, physical exertion, stress, etc.; to sweat.The term perspire has sometimes been regarded as more polite than sweat when referring to people (cf. quots. 1791, 2000).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > sweat [verb (intransitive)]
sweatc900
reekc1475
resudate1599
sudate1599
melt1614
transpire1648
perspire1684
perspirate1844
shvitz1957
1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 566 Wherefore, that there are Pores in the skin of every man's Body, is no more to be question'd, than whether Men do ever sweat or perspire.
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 180 Dropsical People are generally observ'd to sweat much, but perspire little.
1784 J. Wesley Serm. 1 Cor. xiii. in Arminian Mag. 7 240 During a night's sleep, a healthy man perspires one part in four less when he sweats, than when he does not.
1791 Gentleman's Mag. 61 1099 It is well known that for some time past, neither man, woman nor child..has been subject to that gross kind of exudation which was formerly known by the name of sweat;..now every mortal, except carters, coal-heavers and Irish Chair-men..merely perspires.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 121 The heat causes him immediately to perspire profusely.
1890 Washington Post 13 July 9 For people who perspire freely and want something cooling.., a ginger-ale sour is recommended.
1938 Z. N. Hurston Tell my Horse xvi. 256 It [sc. calomel] is absorbed through the skin when the wearer perspires and produces a dangerous swelling.
1979 J. Heller Good as Gold 91 Sid was perspiring now from more than heat.
2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 v. 148 Gentlemen perspire and horses sweat, these policemen oozed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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