单词 | pulvinated |
释义 | pulvinatedadj. 1. Rounded, bulging (rare); (Architecture, of a frieze) having a convex face. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [adjective] > frieze > convex pulvinated1699 pulvinariana1886 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 59 Here also was a Vespetum Canadense..as big as a middle-sized Melon..with an edge running round where it is thickest, from which edge it suddenly declines and lessens into a point; at the very end of the point, on one side, is a little hole, with pulvinated or smooth edges inclined inward. 1768 S. Riou Grecian Orders Archit. iii. 20 Here we may observe the architrave to be higher than the frize, which is without ornament and pulvinated. 1773 J. Noorthouck New Hist. London 598 It has the pulvinated or swelling freeze. 1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. (1848) 30 It was once the custom to work the Ionic frieze projecting like a torus... When thus formed it is called pulvinated. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §223. 219 The shaft either diminished in a right line or pulvinated. 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Pillowed..2. In arch. a term applied to a rounded frieze. Called also Pulvinated. 1959 M. S. Briggs Everyman's Conc. Encycl. Archit. 262 Pulvinated.., a term applied to a classical frieze which has a convex or bulging section. 1981 J. Summerson Design of Arches of Triumph: Liverpool Cathedral in Lutyens 48 As the entablature moves round to the side of the piers it loses its cornice and the frieze is pulvinated. 2004 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 14 Nov. (Lifestyle & Leisure section) 4 The arch fecundity, the reassuringly pulvinated silhouette, the chocolatey come-hither gaze. ΚΠ 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1044/1 Pulvinatus, applied by Kirby to the prothorax when, being depressed at one point, it appears swollen out at another..: pulvinated. 3. Botany. Of a leaf or leaflet: = pulvinate adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > petiole or leaf-stalk > [adjective] > of or having a pulvinule or struma strumose1841 strumiferous1860 pulvinate1866 strumulose1866 pulvinated1880 pulvinar1882 1880 C. Darwin & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 113 With pulvinated leaves (i.e. those provided with a pulvinus) their periodical movements depend..on the cells of the pulvinus alternately expanding more quickly on one side than on the other. 1919 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 90 396 Any agent which increases the excitability of pulvinated organs..likewise induces a positive variation or enhancement of the rate of growth. 1976 Nature 3 June 437/1 I have studied the irritable reaction to stimuli of the pulvinated leaves of the ‘sensitive plant’. 1996 Brittonia 48 29 Leaves petiolate.., basally thickened but not pulvinated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1699 |
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