单词 | pretemporal |
释义 | pretemporaln.adj.2 A muscle situated in front of the temporal muscle in certain reptiles. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > [noun] > parts of atterc1000 fingera1398 spear1608 pecten1713 supraciliary1838 postocular1856 patagium1857 podotheca1864 pretemporal1866 keeled scale1870 postnasal1871 prenasal1886 supracoracoid1897 hedonic gland1901 guanophore1924 chorio-allantois1933 1866 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. I. 223 Its fibres pass vertically external to those of the pretemporal. B. adj.2 Zoology and Anatomy. Situated or occurring in front of the temporal bone of the skull or the temporal lobe of the brain. ΚΠ 1869 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 159 778 Not only has this centre affected the overlying cartilage, it has grown into short wings between the heads of the pterygoids,..and into huge pretemporal wings (the ‘posterior pterygoid processes’). 1898 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 19 248 A narrow but well-defined groove runs the entire length of the face, beginning at a foramen near the pretemporal ridge. 1995 Acta Neurochirurgica 136 204 (title) The pretemporal approach to the interpeduncular and petroclival regions. 2003 Jrnl. Neurol. Sci. 214 17/2 EEG showed focal, paroxysmal activity in the right pre-temporal region. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pretemporaladj.1 Existing or occurring before the beginning of time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective] > before the eternal or infinite in past duration fore-eternal1587 fore-everlasting1587 eternal1690 pretemporal1798 1798 W. Drysdale Sacred Script. Theory of Earth 8 The pre-temporal period, so to speak, when the first atoms of matter were called into existence. 1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 500 To meditative converse most devote, And strict collation of the Spirit-book With the pretemporal volume, writ of God. 1894 E. K. Mitchell tr. C. G. A. von Harnack Outl. Hist. Dogma App. i. 319 The pretemporal existence was a matter of certainty. 1929 S. Angus Relig. Quests of Graeco-Roman World xx. 396 These functions He could perform as the supreme intermediary between God and man, and also as the pre-temporal agent of creation. 1996 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 10 Dec. Evolutionists..believe in a non-living mix of matter, energy and the laws of nature existing in the pre-temporal void. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.21866adj.11798 |
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