单词 | refiguration |
释义 | refigurationn.ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [noun] picture?a1439 representingc1443 portraiturea1450 refigurationc1475 effigiation?1533 figuring1534 representation1579 picturing1585 representmentc1590 presentationa1616 portrayment?1650 iconism1656 importraiture1834 portrayal1836 rendition1959 c1475 ( J. Hardyng Chron. (Harl.) (1812) 136 (MED) And refiguracion [1543 Grafton He made xii knightes of the order..In token of the table refyguracyon Of the brotherhede of Christes souper]. 2. The action or an act of figuring or forming again; reconfiguration. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > again or anew re-forming?a1475 re-formationa1500 re-form1597 re-efformationa1631 new-modelling1646 remoulding1652 refiguration1829 reshaping1872 1829 T. Cooper tr. P. Cordier in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 15 123 The secular refiguration, continually increasing the thickness of the earth's crust, gives room to inquire, whether the incandescent matter submitted to this action passes entirely into a state of solidity. 1897 Amer. Naturalist 31 44 In the strictly paleobotanic portion of the memoir,..there are, besides the refiguration and redescription of many of Heer's types, numerous points of special interest. 1977 F. McDonagh tr. T. Adorno in E. Bloch et al. Aesthetics & Politics 193 The primacy of the aesthetic object as pure refiguration. 1990 U. S. Patent 4,923,274 4 Avoiding the use of adhesives also allows the use of the device as a rematable connector instead of a permanent splice, to allow for future refiguration of the transmission system. 2004 Nineteenth-cent. Lit. 59 303 Smith's refiguration of Milton's simile involves Beachy Head in a chain of similitudes that suggests trouble both abroad and at home. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1475 |
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