revulsionn.

Brit.

/rᵻˈvʌlʃn/, U.S.

/rəˈvəlʃən/,

/riˈvəlʃən/

Forms: 1500s revulsione, 1500s–1600s reuulsion, 1500s–1600s revultion, 1500s– revulsion.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French revulsion; Latin revulsiōn-, revulsiō.

Etymology: < Middle French revulsion (1538, only in medical sense; French révulsion ) and its etymon classical Latin revulsiōn-, revulsiō action of tearing off, in post-classical Latin also in specific medical sense (1535 or earlier) < revuls- , past participial stem of revellere (see revel v.²) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish revulsión (mid 16th cent.), Portuguese revulsão (1661), Italian revulsione (1692).

1. Medicine. The action or process of withdrawing humours, blood, etc., from one part of the body by means of a treatment applied to another part; counterirritation. Also: an instance of this. Cf. derivation n.¹ 1c. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > treatment of one part to cure another

revulsion?1541

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Giij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Yf the fluxyon be impetuous & great we shal make reuulsion [Fr. reuulsion] in the contrary partyes.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. viii. ii. f. 40^v/1 As oftentimes as we desire to make any derivatione, revulsione, interceptione, or evacuatione, of anye matter.

1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. v. 19 Let there be used..blood-letting, cupping, and other revultions.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iv. 123 When a Loosness is cured by the use of a Bath, it is cured by revulsion.

c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. iii. 10 This Method of Revulsion has been safely practised among all Physicians.

1778 W. Lewis New Dispensatory (Dublin ed. 4) ii. 79/1 Sydenham assures us, that among all the substances which occasion a derivation or revulsion from the head, none operate more powerfully than garlick applied to the soles of the feet.

1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 524/1 Derivation or revulsion is often found to occur independently of any artificial excitation.

1874 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics 474 The process being called revulsion, or counter-irritation.

1903 M. S. Gabriel tr. G. H. Roger Infectious Dis. xxiii. 768 Revulsion is often practised upon the region of the skin corresponding to the diseased organ as well as in distant parts.

1987 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 74 516/1 The epidemic had forced physicians to reduce the level of depletion, revulsion, and other modes of quick derivation typical of early practice.

a. The action or process of drawing back or away (from); the fact of being drawn back or away; an instance of this. In later use predominantly figurative and in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > pulling back

retrahing1497

retraction1528

retracting1603

revulsion1609

pullback1671

1609 J. Davies Holy Roode sig. D1 That Head..vpon whose Crowne Depends the highest Heau'ns resplendant Roofe By whose reuulsion It would soone fall downe.

1662 R. Boyle Examen Mr. T. Hobbs 88 in New Exper. Physico-mechanicall (ed. 2) The repeated impulse and revulsion of the Sucker.

1687 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks II. 91 There necessarily followed a Revulsion of the Forces from Dalmatia.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 62 The blood and spirits, which had suffer'd a revulsion from her, crouded back to her.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. vii. 214 Thrown out of employment by the revulsion of capital from other trades.

1850 W. E. Gladstone in Q. Rev. Mar. 321 For common speculative liberalism..he had a contempt as energetic even as his revulsion from theology.

1877 G. Mathieson Growth Spirit of Christianity II. xxix. 159 We behold next its [sc. the Papacy's] revulsion from the authority of the State, its refusal to render unto Cæsar the things which were Cæsar's.

1931 Observer 6 Sept. 6/4 The revulsions into Sunday School pretty-prettiness are equally surprising.

1955 Brain 78 586 There has been a revulsion from the..idea of the nervous system as a telephone exchange.

1996 J. P. Young Reconsidering Amer. Liberalism xiv. 251 He seems simply unable to conceive the possibility that the revulsion from authority in the S&S years might have been fully warranted.

†b. A forceful separation or tearing (or being torn) away. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > forcible separation

distraction1581

diremption1623

revulsion1663

1663 J. Heath Chron. Late Intestine Wars 308 Their violent Revulsion out of that Bosome, where they might and ought to have been cherished to a competent vigour.

1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. xi. 334 Drawn by a total revulsion of ideas from the chain of thinking that had led him to composition, he relinquished his annotations in resentment of this dismission.

†c. Recovery, restoration. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun]

restoringa1382

reparellingc1410

reduction1447

rehaving1472

redintegration1501

restoration1510

reintegration1570

resource1596

reducement1604

reinstauration1610

retrievala1643

revindication1643

retrievement1657

retrieve1658

recoveringa1660

reviction1679

retrieving1718

revulsionc1760

rehabilitation1830

c1760 in Etoniana (1865) 74 One of his..pupils speaks of the ‘revulsion’ of the fame of Eton ‘owing to his able..administration’.

3. A sudden violent change of feeling; (in modern use chiefly) a strong emotional reaction against something; abhorrence, repugnance; a sense of loathing; (also) an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] > strong, thorough

revulsion1699

revirement1824

pirouette1832

right-about face1837

volte-face1883

right about1936

1699 J. Dennis Rinaldo & Armida ii. 14 He meditates profound, and fetches sighs, Which..With terrible Revulsions shake his Soul.

1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless IV. vi. 50 All together racked her with most terrible revulsions.

1793 C. Smith Old Manor House III. ix. 213 It was the..long walk of the preceding evening..that occasioned an unlucky revulsion.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality v, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 93 The transition from the verge of the grave to a prospect of life, had occasioned a dizzy revulsion in his whole system.

1853 C. Kingsley A. Smith & A. Pope in Misc. (1860) I. 289 There comes a natural revulsion from the baldness and puerility into which Wordsworth too often fell.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (1871) 1st Ser. iii. 55 The cause of this strange..direction of popular feeling is to be found in a sort of generous revulsion of sentiment.

1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 107/2 The wily sage of Monticello [sc. Jefferson] realized that as soon as the real import of the acts was fully grasped by the country at large, there would be a marked revulsion of opinion against the Federalists.

1943 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 21 Feb. in War within & Without (1980) 327 I feel conscious of how I hate the house—with an almost physical revulsion—that apricot living room, with the false bumpy walls.

1975 R. S. Denisoff Solid Gold i. 27 Revulsion became Alice Cooper's ticket to pop-music fame.

2004 L. Jensen Ninth Life of Louis Drax 70 We have all those nightmares in which we do something monstrous, then wake, skin clammy with revulsion.

4. A sudden or marked (esp. untoward) reaction or reversal in trade, fortune, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [noun] > instance of

peripeteia1591

traverse1601

vicissitude1631

reverse1656

peripety1705

fluctuation1712

twine1768

revulsion1832

reversal1842

1779 W. Eden Three Lett. Earl of Carlisle 87 A moderate tax..would not occasion any check or revulsion in the present system of expence.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. xiv. 321 In that great revulsion of fortune, the Archbishop was consigned to the hands of his old Sectarian.

1832 R. Southey Ess. I. 147 To grow up..while the trade flourishes, and to be thrown out of employ..when it meets with any sudden revulsion.

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. 195 A state of business which, when pushed to an extreme length, brings on the revulsion called a commercial crisis.

1913 W. G. L. Taylor Credit Syst. iv. xi. 302 There is no difficulty in establishing the fact that gold is at a premium, or, in the case of revulsion after a crisis, at a discount, in paper.

1939 R. Syme Rom. Revol. xxviii. 424 Other nobles with influential connexions..were not so deeply committed to the court faction that they could not survive, and even profit from, a revulsion of fortune.

2001 E. J. Balleisen Navigating Failure i. i. 33 Contemporaries referred to the most severe revulsions of credit as ‘panics’.

Derivatives

reˈvulsionary adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [adjective]

renayedc1380

renegate1488

regenerate?1536

runagate1549

renegantc1550

turncoat1571

relenting1576

reneged1594

renegado1612

recreant1613

tergiversating1654

renegade1664

apostate1671

tergiversant1710

blackleg1767

revulsionary1817

tergiversated1831

tergiverse1852

tergiversatory1891

breakaway1934

walk-in1978

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [adjective] > relating to or used in pulling > pulling back

retiringc1595

revulsionary1817

revellent1838

1817 J. Porter Pastor's Fire-side II. ix. 249 The statesman's frowns had not been those of displeasure at the young secretary's revulsionary indecorum.

1900 F. T. Bullen Idylls of Sea 248 Recovering from that revulsionary paroxysm, all hands rushed upon the retreating mass.

1994 L. E. Boose in R. Burt & J. M. Archer Enclosure Acts i. ix. 197 An English pornography that brought together prurient lust and revulsionary loathing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	revulsion
释义	revulsionn. Brit. /rᵻˈvʌlʃn/, U.S. /rəˈvəlʃən/, /riˈvəlʃən/ Forms: 1500s revulsione, 1500s–1600s reuulsion, 1500s–1600s revultion, 1500s– revulsion. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French revulsion; Latin revulsiōn-, revulsiō. Etymology: < Middle French revulsion (1538, only in medical sense; French révulsion ) and its etymon classical Latin revulsiōn-, revulsiō action of tearing off, in post-classical Latin also in specific medical sense (1535 or earlier) < revuls- , past participial stem of revellere (see revel v.²) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish revulsión (mid 16th cent.), Portuguese revulsão (1661), Italian revulsione (1692). 1. Medicine. The action or process of withdrawing humours, blood, etc., from one part of the body by means of a treatment applied to another part; counterirritation. Also: an instance of this. Cf. derivation n.¹ 1c. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > treatment of one part to cure another revulsion?1541 ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Giij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Yf the fluxyon be impetuous & great we shal make reuulsion [Fr. reuulsion] in the contrary partyes. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. viii. ii. f. 40^v/1 As oftentimes as we desire to make any derivatione, revulsione, interceptione, or evacuatione, of anye matter. 1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. v. 19 Let there be used..blood-letting, cupping, and other revultions. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iv. 123 When a Loosness is cured by the use of a Bath, it is cured by revulsion. c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. iii. 10 This Method of Revulsion has been safely practised among all Physicians. 1778 W. Lewis New Dispensatory (Dublin ed. 4) ii. 79/1 Sydenham assures us, that among all the substances which occasion a derivation or revulsion from the head, none operate more powerfully than garlick applied to the soles of the feet. 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 524/1 Derivation or revulsion is often found to occur independently of any artificial excitation. 1874 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics 474 The process being called revulsion, or counter-irritation. 1903 M. S. Gabriel tr. G. H. Roger Infectious Dis. xxiii. 768 Revulsion is often practised upon the region of the skin corresponding to the diseased organ as well as in distant parts. 1987 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 74 516/1 The epidemic had forced physicians to reduce the level of depletion, revulsion, and other modes of quick derivation typical of early practice. 2. a. The action or process of drawing back or away (from); the fact of being drawn back or away; an instance of this. In later use predominantly figurative and in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > pulling back retrahing1497 retraction1528 retracting1603 revulsion1609 pullback1671 1609 J. Davies Holy Roode sig. D1 That Head..vpon whose Crowne Depends the highest Heau'ns resplendant Roofe By whose reuulsion It would soone fall downe. 1662 R. Boyle Examen Mr. T. Hobbs 88 in New Exper. Physico-mechanicall (ed. 2) The repeated impulse and revulsion of the Sucker. 1687 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks II. 91 There necessarily followed a Revulsion of the Forces from Dalmatia. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 62 The blood and spirits, which had suffer'd a revulsion from her, crouded back to her. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. vii. 214 Thrown out of employment by the revulsion of capital from other trades. View more context for this quotation 1850 W. E. Gladstone in Q. Rev. Mar. 321 For common speculative liberalism..he had a contempt as energetic even as his revulsion from theology. 1877 G. Mathieson Growth Spirit of Christianity II. xxix. 159 We behold next its [sc. the Papacy's] revulsion from the authority of the State, its refusal to render unto Cæsar the things which were Cæsar's. 1931 Observer 6 Sept. 6/4 The revulsions into Sunday School pretty-prettiness are equally surprising. 1955 Brain 78 586 There has been a revulsion from the..idea of the nervous system as a telephone exchange. 1996 J. P. Young Reconsidering Amer. Liberalism xiv. 251 He seems simply unable to conceive the possibility that the revulsion from authority in the S&S years might have been fully warranted. †b. A forceful separation or tearing (or being torn) away. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > forcible separation distraction1581 diremption1623 revulsion1663 1663 J. Heath Chron. Late Intestine Wars 308 Their violent Revulsion out of that Bosome, where they might and ought to have been cherished to a competent vigour. 1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. xi. 334 Drawn by a total revulsion of ideas from the chain of thinking that had led him to composition, he relinquished his annotations in resentment of this dismission. †c. Recovery, restoration. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] restoringa1382 reparellingc1410 reduction1447 rehaving1472 redintegration1501 restoration1510 reintegration1570 resource1596 reducement1604 reinstauration1610 retrievala1643 revindication1643 retrievement1657 retrieve1658 recoveringa1660 reviction1679 retrieving1718 revulsionc1760 rehabilitation1830 c1760 in Etoniana (1865) 74 One of his..pupils speaks of the ‘revulsion’ of the fame of Eton ‘owing to his able..administration’. 3. A sudden violent change of feeling; (in modern use chiefly) a strong emotional reaction against something; abhorrence, repugnance; a sense of loathing; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] > strong, thorough revulsion1699 revirement1824 pirouette1832 right-about face1837 volte-face1883 right about1936 1699 J. Dennis Rinaldo & Armida ii. 14 He meditates profound, and fetches sighs, Which..With terrible Revulsions shake his Soul. 1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless IV. vi. 50 All together racked her with most terrible revulsions. 1793 C. Smith Old Manor House III. ix. 213 It was the..long walk of the preceding evening..that occasioned an unlucky revulsion. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality v, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 93 The transition from the verge of the grave to a prospect of life, had occasioned a dizzy revulsion in his whole system. 1853 C. Kingsley A. Smith & A. Pope in Misc. (1860) I. 289 There comes a natural revulsion from the baldness and puerility into which Wordsworth too often fell. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (1871) 1st Ser. iii. 55 The cause of this strange..direction of popular feeling is to be found in a sort of generous revulsion of sentiment. 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 107/2 The wily sage of Monticello [sc. Jefferson] realized that as soon as the real import of the acts was fully grasped by the country at large, there would be a marked revulsion of opinion against the Federalists. 1943 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 21 Feb. in War within & Without (1980) 327 I feel conscious of how I hate the house—with an almost physical revulsion—that apricot living room, with the false bumpy walls. 1975 R. S. Denisoff Solid Gold i. 27 Revulsion became Alice Cooper's ticket to pop-music fame. 2004 L. Jensen Ninth Life of Louis Drax 70 We have all those nightmares in which we do something monstrous, then wake, skin clammy with revulsion. 4. A sudden or marked (esp. untoward) reaction or reversal in trade, fortune, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [noun] > instance of peripeteia1591 traverse1601 vicissitude1631 reverse1656 peripety1705 fluctuation1712 twine1768 revulsion1832 reversal1842 1779 W. Eden Three Lett. Earl of Carlisle 87 A moderate tax..would not occasion any check or revulsion in the present system of expence. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. xiv. 321 In that great revulsion of fortune, the Archbishop was consigned to the hands of his old Sectarian. 1832 R. Southey Ess. I. 147 To grow up..while the trade flourishes, and to be thrown out of employ..when it meets with any sudden revulsion. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. 195 A state of business which, when pushed to an extreme length, brings on the revulsion called a commercial crisis. 1913 W. G. L. Taylor Credit Syst. iv. xi. 302 There is no difficulty in establishing the fact that gold is at a premium, or, in the case of revulsion after a crisis, at a discount, in paper. 1939 R. Syme Rom. Revol. xxviii. 424 Other nobles with influential connexions..were not so deeply committed to the court faction that they could not survive, and even profit from, a revulsion of fortune. 2001 E. J. Balleisen Navigating Failure i. i. 33 Contemporaries referred to the most severe revulsions of credit as ‘panics’. Derivatives reˈvulsionary adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [adjective] renayedc1380 renegate1488 regenerate?1536 runagate1549 renegantc1550 turncoat1571 relenting1576 reneged1594 renegado1612 recreant1613 tergiversating1654 renegade1664 apostate1671 tergiversant1710 blackleg1767 revulsionary1817 tergiversated1831 tergiverse1852 tergiversatory1891 breakaway1934 walk-in1978 the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [adjective] > relating to or used in pulling > pulling back retiringc1595 revulsionary1817 revellent1838 1817 J. Porter Pastor's Fire-side II. ix. 249 The statesman's frowns had not been those of displeasure at the young secretary's revulsionary indecorum. 1900 F. T. Bullen Idylls of Sea 248 Recovering from that revulsionary paroxysm, all hands rushed upon the retreating mass. 1994 L. E. Boose in R. Burt & J. M. Archer Enclosure Acts i. ix. 197 An English pornography that brought together prurient lust and revulsionary loathing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1541
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