单词 | recedence |
释义 | recedencen. The action or an act of receding from a place, point, or state; withdrawal; decline. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] departing?c1225 partingc1300 withdrawingc1315 departc1330 wendingc1330 outpassinga1387 goinga1400 discessc1425 departisona1450 departmentc1450 going awayc1450 departition1470 departurec1515 recess1531 avoidance1563 parture1567 waygate1575 departance1579 exit1596 remotion1608 voiding1612 recession1630 recedence1641 recede1649 partment1663 recedure1712 leaving1719 off-going1727 quittance1757 departal1823 pull-out1825 pull-awaya1829 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] recedence1641 retiring1730 retreatingness1845 1641 R. Greville Nature of Truth vii. 43 There can be no recedence from Unity, unlesse by addition of a new, distinct, Unity. 1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. ii. ii. 49 The Face, and Head..are over-spread with a White or Yellow Scurf, not unlike that in the recedence of the Small-Pox. 1755 R. Spearman Enq. Philos. & Theol. i. 112 Does not the recedence of the finer, and precedence of the grosser parts of the air, from and to the sun..admit the ocular demonstration in the motion of those small bodies we call sun-beams? 1799 A. Walker Syst. Familiar Philos. xi. 524 Her [sc. the moon's] approach to, and recedence from, remarkable fixed stars, is..our only exact means of finding how far we are east or west from the meridian of Greenwich. 1834 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 563 The mutual recedence of the two membranes is effected in the same way. 1883 New Eng. Jrnl. Educ. 17 329 An age approximating the recedence of the flood. 1934 E. Laurent & P. Nagour Magica Sexualis xv. 226 The enthralling feeling of rapture, the loss of sensation of personality, the thrill of delight and the recedence of the external world. 1999 J. A. Yunker in E. E. Harris & J. A. Yunker Toward Genuine Global Governance ix. 139 The recent collapse of the Soviet Union and the concomitant recedence of the Cold War. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1641 |
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