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单词 seething
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seethingn.

/ˈsiːðɪŋ/
Etymology: < seethe v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of seethe v.
1.
a. The state of being boiling hot.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > state of being boiling (of liquid)
seethingc1300
boilingc1380
playing?c1425
ebullition1792
boil1813
c1300 St. Margarete 31 He let hete water oð seoþinge & þo hit boillede faste, He let nyme þis holi maide & þer amidde hire caste.
b. transferred and figurative. Ebullition, intense inward agitation. Also with up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > foaming or frothing
foaming1382
foam1574
seething1593
spumification1615
frothing1628
mantling1695
creaming1888
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares O 2 This Vaine-glory..is (as I may call it) the froth and seathing vp of Ambition.
1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend iv. 171 But within, what a spirit of deep unrest! What a seething and simmering in his breast!
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxiii. 388 Nothing was visible but a wild boiling and seething of clouds and waves.
2.
a. The action or an act of keeping a liquid boiling hot, of cooking in boiling water, or of submitting anything to the action of boiling liquid.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > boiling
seethinga1387
playing?c1425
boiling1481
walm1558
rolling boil1940
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun]
welling1371
seethinga1387
boiling1481
ebullition1594
elixation1605
estuating1674
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 439 Biggynge and sellynge cesede, and so dede rostynge and seþinge [MS. γ seoþyng] and greyþinge of mete.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xxi. 210 Salte is made by grete sethynge of water.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xi. 91 The seething together of plummes..and other lyke fruits.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 327 The better to secure the seething of the Pot.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Potage When this Mixture has been season'd, let it have five or six Seethings in a Stew-pan.
b. concrete. Something boiled or in process of boiling. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > that which is boiling or boiled
seething1382
boiling1674
boil1756
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxv. 30 Ȝif to me of this brown sething [L. Da mihi de coctione hac rufa].
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. lxviii. 85 Sethe hem softly to þe half, and after lat þe sethinge be steryd and strenyd.
3. Digestion. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion
defyingc1315
digestionc1386
digest1398
seething1398
concoction?1531
concocting1541
decoction1541
digesting1541
digesture1565
enduing1575
fleeting1581
elixation1621
coction1667
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) (Bodl.) v. xl Þe galle by heete þereof helpeþ þe seeþing of mete and drinke.
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) i. i. ii. v. 20 Elixation, is the seething of meat in the stomacke.

Compounds

General attributive. Obsolete.
seething-house n.
ΚΠ
1459 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 89 In coquina sunt, viz., in le Sethynghowse ij magne olle in furnis.
seething-pot n.
ΚΠ
c1560 J. Lacy Wyl Bucke his Test. (Copland) sig. a.iiiv Then caste all togeter in a faire sething-pott with water.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. ix. 18 So we cover it as we do our seething-pots with a potlid, to keep in the fumes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

seethingadj.

/ˈsiːðɪŋ/
Etymology: < seethe v. + -ing suffix2.
1.
a. Originally, of liquids, a cauldron, etc.: Boiling. In modern use, a somewhat rhetorical expression for: Intensely heated (said of solids, the atmosphere, etc., as well as of liquids).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [adjective]
wallingc1000
welling?a1200
seethinga1300
boilingc1320
playing1440
ebullient1599
bullient1682
aboil1846
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > very
wall-hotc1000
walm-hotOE
hot as hellOE
welling?a1200
welling hota1400
aestuant?1440
burning1484
scalding?a1513
broiling1555
roasting1567
walming hot1601
boiling hot1607
baking1656
stewing-hot1711
piping1823
grilling1839
seething1848
white-hot1855
stewing1856
incandescent1859
swithering1895
boiling1930
a1300 Leg. Rood 60 A caudron he let fulle Wiþ seþing oile vol Inouȝ.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 107 [They] were aferd of that syedyng water.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. i. 13 I do se a seethinge pot.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 413 There is a Spring of seething Water, which falls into a Pool.
1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 317 The hooks and the seething pitch of Barbariccia and Diaghignazzo.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. v. iii. 33 But did he try the ordeals of God?..did his hand grasp the seething iron?
b. quasi-adv., esp. in seething hot.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adverb] > very or intensely (hot)
burning hot1475
seething1489
moultering1606
flaming-hot1638
torridly1657
roastingly1830
broiling1840
bakingly1858
blisteringly1877
candescently1883
broilingly1885
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxvii. 155 Yf..the watre might be sedinge hote.
a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 138 That 'tis so seething hott in Spaine, they sweare They never heard of a raw oyster there.
1876 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 5) i. vi. 189 The whole surface of which [the sea] was seething white.
2. transferred and figurative. Of waves, etc.: Ebullient, tumultuous. Also, pervaded by intense and ceaseless inner agitation: often with reference (literal and figurative) to the condition characteristic of corruption or putrefaction.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [adjective] > inflamed with passion
fire-hotOE
eschaufedc1374
on firea1393
inflammatec1450
inflamed1526
enkindled1549
boiling1579
seething1590
heated1595
red-hot1598
aflame1632
on flame1656
ablaze1819
burnt1859
incandescent1859
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > rough
woodc900
drofc1000
bremea1300
scaldinga1300
sharp1377
wrothc1400
welteringc1420
rude?a1439
wawishc1450
wallya1522
robustuousa1544
troublesome1560
turbulent1573
boisterous?1594
lofty1600
enridged1608
hollow1705
ugly1744
testy1833
topping1857
seething1871
troughy1877
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > rotten or putrefied
forrottedc897
foulOE
rotted?c1225
rottena1250
corruptc1380
enraged1398
putrefieda1413
purulent?a1425
putrid?a1425
ranka1425
rottenly1435
corrupped1533
corruptious1559
attainted1573
rot1573
putrefacted1574
baggage1576
tainted1577
pourryc1580
corruptive1593
putrilaginous1598
putrefactious1609
taint1620
putid1660
rottenish1691
septic1746
corrupted1807
mullocky1839
rotty1872
seething1875
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > corrupt or putrid
rottingeOE
foulOE
rotted?c1225
rottena1250
corruptc1380
putrefieda1413
putrid?a1425
ranka1425
rottenly1435
pourryc1450
moskin1531
corrupped1533
corrupting1567
attainted1573
rot1573
putrefacted1574
baggage1576
tainted1577
pury1602
putrefactious1609
putrefactive1610
taint1620
putrescent1624
festerous1628
putid1660
scandalous1676
rottenish1691
putrefying1746–7
septic1746
corrupted1807
decomposing1833
decomposed1846
seething1875
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I4v Whose scalding drops wil pierce thy seething braines.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 4 Louers, and mad men haue such seething braines. View more context for this quotation
1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 433 The seething spirit of controversy.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 73 [He] plunged into the seething gulf of insurrection which was raging in Eastern Turkestan.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 156 Seething sand [L. Syrtis].
1875 F. S. Haden Earth to Earth 66 To avoid the seething suburban cemeteries and to bury their dead at Woking.
1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades i. 37 One white sea Of churning, seething foam.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. v. xviii. 322 Amid this seething corruption.

Derivatives

ˈseethingly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adverb]
rageously1486
violently1518
franticly1549
ragingly1549
wildly1593
turbulently1602
impotently1621
transportedly1652
like wild1674
frantically1749
madly1756
seethingly1887
like crazy1924
1887 Temple Bar Oct. 199 He explained to his seethingly angry friend.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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