单词 | ruminated |
释义 | ruminatedadj. 1. Meditated, considered; that has been mentally digested. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [adjective] > weighed mentally, considered counterpoised1477 beholden1530 concoct1534 pensive1575 meditate1588 meditated1588 considered1604 ruminated1605 (crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692 thought-out1833 ponderated1892 ponderate1922 thought-through1922 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Dd3 Which kind of Ruminated History, I thinke..fit to place amongst Bookes of policie. View more context for this quotation a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 306 It is a second, a ruminated, a reflected knowledge. 1913 ‘J. Halsham’ in J. C. Bowman Promise of Country Life (1916) i. 3 Hobbs' Folly..commemorates a country jest, the ruminated laughter of three generations. 1985 S. Cameron Writing Nature (1989) iii. 68 Thoreau tells us ‘Birds lose their way’, getting lost in the actual dark and not in the ruminated imaginary of the preceding sentences. 2. Of food: subjected to rumination or re-chewing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > subjected to rumination ruminated1806 1806 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 96 383 The ruminated food passes into the third stomach. 1825 Lancet 3 Sept. 278/2 The fluid which the ruminated mess contains, is thus separated. 1901 R. Rosenstock tr. O. Schmeil Text-bk. Zool. 104 The ruminated food is conveyed into the psalterium. 2001 F. Feer et al. in F. Bongers et al. Nouragues iv. xxi. 231 Intact seeds in abomasum contents (ie ruminated food) of red and gray brocket deers and in stomachs of peccaries are few and small. 3. Botany. = ruminate adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > ridge channel > [adjective] rivelledOE wrinkled1563 channelled1597 ribbed1597 trisulcated1703 ribby1706 rugose1707 ruminate1800 ruminated1828 striolate?1841 multicostate1849 crested1856 fork-ribbed1858 tricostate1861 bicarinate1872 carinal1872 vallecular1875 carinate1876 bicarinated1880 trisulcate1891 1828 Mag. Nat. Hist. July 139 The latter consist of a hard mass of albumen, ruminated, as the botanists call it. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. 281 The albumen may..present a mottled appearance, as in the Nutmeg,..and some Palms.., where it is called ruminated. 1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 387 When split open, the albumen is seen to be ruminated; the cut surface resembling that of a nutmeg. 1960 Jrnl. Paleontol. 34 1028/2 Seeds like that of Artabotrys odoratissima with ruminated appearance of the albumen. 2004 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 359 1575/1 Distinct ruminated internal casts of the seeds are good evidence of their relationship to living Annonaceae. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1605 |
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