单词 | adherency |
释义 | adherencyn. archaic. 1. The action, state, or fact of adhering to a person or thing; esp. steadfast support, allegiance. Also occasionally: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [noun] truthOE trotha1225 trueness?c1225 fayc1300 hold13.. lewtyc1330 faithfulnessc1400 perseverance?a1439 adherence1449 familiarityc1450 fidelity1509 devotiona1530 adherency1579 reality1616 rightness1625 lealty1861 lealness1882 the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > adherency or attachedness adhesiona1500 adherency1579 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [noun] > adhesion cleavingc1430 sticking1430 adheringc1550 adherence1555 clinging1572 adherency1579 suture1600 adhesion1615 stickage1726 readhesion1817 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xiii. 765 By..the adherencie of the Barons of the Gebelins, he had a playne and open passage to ronne vp to the gates of Rome. 1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική xviii. 235 By vertue of its adherency and remanency in their flesh; it did that work. 1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar 4 The late changes in our Nation have disengaged me from my former adherencies. 1729 B. Duddell Treat. Dis. Horny-coat of Eye i. 11 Those Fibres are like so many Muscles, which are very much strengthen'd by their Adherency to the Sclerotis. 1787 W. Hawkins Disc. Script. Myst. Annot. 389 A zeal of adherency to a favourite principle. 1844 Bentley's Mag. Nov. 460 Admire the blind and devoted adherency of the Secretary! 1912 Jrnl. Race Devel. 3 152 A means of estimating Protestant adherency. 1926 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 June 937/1 Such a change is invariably associated with some complication, such as..adherency to the pancreas. 1931 J. T. Shipley Quest for Lit. p. vii I have, indeed, tried to prevent my own adherencies from coloring the presentation. 2002 Catholic Hist. Rev. 88 554 Stark wants to understand why some religions attract not just more adherents but deeper adherency in their follower. 2. A group of adherents or supporters; a following. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > adherent > body of inherdance1448 sect1450 adherence1549 adherencyc1600 c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1804) 268 Not againes the Lords..or onie of thair adherencis [1825 ed.: adherents] in this laitt actioun. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 399 A great part of the Romane adherencie shall fall off from her. 1641 R. Gentilis in tr. C. Garcia Antipathy betweene French & Spaniard To Rdr. sig. A6v Such petty Princes & Dukes as have their adherencies and dependancies upon them. 1686 S. F. Egerton Female Advocate 16 So he's dispatch'd, and then all those that be Next in the way are his adherency. 1870 Church of Eng. Mag. 5 Mar. 153/1 You are doubtless all aware of the efforts lately made by the bishop of Rome to collect an adherency to his supremacy, from the patriarchs of the eastern church. 2002 J. H. Grayson Korea (rev. ed.) iv. xiii. 191 In 1994, the Choyge-jong claimed an adherency of 9.125.991 members, 10,056 clerics, and 1,725 temples. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > accompanying circumstance adherency1608 adherenta1610 concomitant1621 concomitancy1631 collateral1641 concomitance1652 comitant1654 adhesion1827 collateralism1834 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 219 Lamygo, that is, a vapourie adhærencie of a thing which flyeth from the strokes of hammers vppon hot burning yron. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 30 The compleatest actions of men have an adhærency of evill cleaving to them. 1681 Whole Duty of Nations 60 The reputation of Religion..often suffers by those unnecessary adherencies. 1772 J. Whitaker Genuine Hist. Britons Asserted iii. 291 Those adherencies of falsehood which disparaged even real and actual truths. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1579 |
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