单词 | saccharine |
释义 | saccharineadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Of, pertaining to or of the nature of sugar; characteristic of sugar; sugary. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [adjective] > of nature of sugar saccharine1674 saccharous1896 the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [adjective] > characteristic of sugar saccharine1674 the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > somewhat saccharine > relating to or of the nature of sugar saccharine1674 sugared1725 1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Saccharine, belonging to Sugar, sweet like Sugar. 1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion iv. 31 The lump [of sugar] consisted of very numerous saccharine corpuscles. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments iii. 24 Manna which is an essential Sacharine Salt sweating from the Leaves of most Plants. 1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller i. i. 6 The..saccharine Sweetness of the Malt. 1841 R. W. Emerson Circles in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 319 I am gladdened by seeing the predominance of the saccharine principle throughout vegetable nature. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xiii. 232 Bovis had never said inwardly that he would take a large allowance of sugar, and..he was naturally disgusted at the saccharine excesses of Avis. 1880 S. Baring-Gould Mehalah I. viii. 156 She precipitated herself against a treacle barrel and upset it. A gush of black saccharine matter spread over the floor. b. saccharine fermentation n. = saccharification n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > carbohydrates > sugars > [noun] > conversion of starch into sugar saccharine fermentation1801 saccharification1839 saccharizationc1904 1801 W. Nicholson tr. A. F. Fourcroy Syn. Tables Chem. xi The saccharine fermentation. I first described under this name the spontaneous formation of sugar in vegetable matters left to themselves. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 456 The saccharine fermentation, in which starch and gum are changed into sugar. 2. Composed chiefly of sugar; of a plant, containing a large proportion of sugar; also, of urine, containing sugar in excess of what is normal. saccharine diabetes, diabetes characterized by excess of saccharine matter in the urine. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > containing sugar saccharine1710 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > urinary disorders > [adjective] > other substances in urine saccharine1845 albuminuric1847 urrhodinic1886 loaded1898 alkaptonuric1899 pentosuric1906 proteinuric1921 natriuretic1953 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [noun] > diabetes diabetes?a1425 pissing evil1565 pot dropsy1625 diabetic1660 diabetes mellitus1788 sugar-disease1849 saccharine diabetes1874 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 109 A Saccharine Draught. a1793 G. White Observ. Veg. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1802) II. 250 All the maples have saccharine juices. 1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 257 Albuminous urine and saccharine urine. 1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 27 This salt has considerable power in checking the formation of sugar in saccharine diabetes. 1889 A. Barnard Noted Breweries I. 16 In the mashing process the starch of the malt is converted into a saccharine liquid, called wort. ΚΠ 1784 E. Cullen tr. T. Bergman Physical & Chem. Ess. I. 311 The residuum consisted of crystallized saccharine acid. 1802 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. II. 103 At first, however, it was called the acid of sugar, or the saccharine acid. 4. Resembling sugar. a. Geology. Of rocks: Granular in texture = saccharoid adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > texture or colour > [adjective] > texture > granular saccharine1833 saccharoid1833 saccharoidal1838 heteroblastic1888 rudaceous1903 homoeoblastic1920 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 79 Saccharoid, Saccharine. When a stone has a texture resembling that of loaf-sugar. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. xvii. 406 Beds of saccharine quartz. 1858 A. Geikie Story of Boulder xii. 242 Where they pass through limestone, they sometimes convert it into a white saccharine marble. Thesaurus » Categories » b. Botany. Covered with shining grains like those of sugar ( Cent. Dict. 1891). c. saccharine alum n. [compare post-classical Latin alumen zucharinum, alumen zuccherinum (from 13th cent. in British sources), alun zuccarin (1492; French alun saccharin), also Middle French alun de sucre (a1374) and further German Zuckeralaun (1588)] an artificial composition of alum, rosewater, and egg albumen, boiled to a paste, which hardens when cold; cf. alum zucarine at zucarine adj. 5. figurative. Chiefly in playful or sarcastic use: Sweet. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective] sugary1591 maudlina1631 mawkish1702 sickly1766 emetic1770 mawky1773 pamby1820 sentimental1823 saccharine1841 sticky1841 mushy1848 sentimentalizing1856 Christmas card1860 maumish1866 slobbery1875 namby-pamby1883 sloppy1883 slushy1889 sentimentalistic1904 marshmallowy1907 hearts and flowers1911 slobby1913 soppy1918 meltyc1921 lavender1928 saccharescent1930 schmaltzya1934 sloshy1933 gooey1935 icky1938 cheesy1943 drippy1952 soupy1953 squishy1953 saccharined1962 gloopy1965 yechy1969 yucky1970 sucky1971 yuck1971 schmoozy1976 the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] > honeyed, mellifluous, or luscious honeyfula1400 honeyed1435 mellifluous?a1475 sugarc1530 sweetful1589 sugary1591 honeysome1593 sweet-seasoned1609 sugar-candied1623 creamya1640 luscious1651 saccharine1841 mouth-watering1847 sugar-candyish1852 goluptious1856 yummy1899 the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > somewhat saccharine > playful or sarcastic use: sweet saccharine1841 1841 R. W. Emerson Prudence in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 230 The abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iv. 91 You will be saccharine enough in a few years. 1863 W. P. Lennox 50 Years' Biogr. Reminisc. I. 179 A saccharine smile beamed upon the royal countenances. 1872 M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl I. v. 98 Those sweet, soft, saccharine sylphs. 1890 Spectator 1 Feb. 169/2 Too saccharine, is our short judgment on these poems. 1933 Punch 16 Aug. 178/1 Here is actually a Viennese film based not on copious draughts of The Blue Danube (with sugar), but on the crisper life which must presumably exist in that city, even in defiance of the saccharine mirage which appears to be the fondest of Hollywood's illusions. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 106 Such a saccharine melody as ‘None but the Weary Heart’. 1951 Ess. in Crit. 1 iii. 289 The saccharine honeymoon by the seaside. 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. ii. 370 A saccharine line drawing of a woman. 1970 K. Millett Sexual Politics ii. iii. 92 It was enough for him to rely on sentiment, a vague nostalgia about the heroic middle ages, and saccharine assertions about The Home. 1976 Amer. Notes & Queries 14 147/2 The parable is saccharine and simplistic. Its sentimental treatment..asks for the cheap pity of melodrama and offers too easy a solution. B. n. Saccharine matter, sugar.See also saccharin n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > carbohydrates > sugars > [noun] sugar1806 saccharine1841 saccharoid1882 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lviii. 226 They live..without saccharine and without salt. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 670 Chemical analysis proves that a large amount of saccharine is still wasted. Derivatives ˈsaccharineish adj. somewhat saccharine. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > somewhat saccharine saccharineish1857 1857 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 24 6/2 Swedish turnips..being of a saccharineish and sugarish taste. sacchaˈrinity n. sweetness. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [noun] sweetnessc897 honey1340 sweetc1381 suavityc1450 dulcetness1528 dulcitude1605 honeyedness1611 sweetinga1626 nectareousness1847 saccharinity1868 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun] sentiment1747 sentimentality1770 mawkishness1796 sensiblerie1815 sentimentalism1818 sloppiness1828 morbidezza1833 milk-and-wateriness1834 maudlin1838 soothing syrup1839 emotionalism1846 stickiness1864 slop1866 mushiness1868 saccharinity1868 sympatheticism1884 hearts and flowers1911 lovey-doveyness1923 schmaltz1934 goop1950 goo1951 schmaltziness1953 gloop1957 cheesiness1963 soupiness1963 soft-centredness1967 soppiness1974 1868 A. Helps Realmah (1876) xii. 313 The polite stranger assiduously presents the fallacious palliative of the consequential saccharinity. 1888 Nature 11 Oct. 573/1 A streaky distribution of brine and water or of syrup and water, in which portions of greatest and least salinity or saccharinity are within half a millimetre of one another. 1932 B. De Voto Mark Twain's Amer. viii. 191 Similar items in saccharinity..had created a brummagem reputation. 1971 ‘A. Burgess’ MF i. 15 Loewe suddenly smiled with horrible saccharinity. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Feb. 176/2 Juxtapositions of venom and saccharinity, iciness and boredom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1674 |
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