单词 | acervation |
释义 | acervationn. The action of forming something into a mass or of piling something up in a heap or heaps; accumulation. Also: a heap, a mass. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > accumulation > heaping or piling up heapingc900 upheapingc1374 aggeration?a1425 piling1434 coacervation1495 pilement1597 bulking1602 acervation1614 aggestion1659 exaggerationa1676 pyramiding1910 1614 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Of Naturall Questions ii. ii, in tr. Seneca Wks. 778 Is it to bee doubted that amongst these bodies which both wee see and handle, which are eyther felt or feele, but that there are some compound? These are such by connexion or aceruation [L. acervatione], as for example, a rope, corne, or a shippe. 1663 Bullokar's Eng. Expositor (rev. ed.) Acervation, a gathering into heaps. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Aggregate The complex or collective result of the conjunction or acervation of many particulars. 1762 tr. S. de Monchy Ess. Causes & Cure Usual Diseases vi. 99 That too great an acervation of excrementitious matter feeds the putrefaction in malignant Fevers. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 106 The deposition and acervation of oily, greasy parts of marine substances. 1823 Conybeare in Buckland's Reliq. Diluv. 196 These accumulations..sometimes by their acervation constitute decided hills. 1905 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 24 52 This is not a case of ‘acervation of terms’, but of bald definition. 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon v. 79 The unwieldy acervation of objects he had acquired. 1996 B. Humphries Women in Background i. 5 Around the room comfortable, loose-covered chairs and sofas were disposed, on which an acervation of people were perched, seated and sprawled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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