单词 | subaction |
释义 | † subactionn. Obsolete. 1. The action of subact v. 1. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > performing practical operations > upon something working?a1425 subaction1626 subagitation1653 manipulation1801 manipulating1868 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §838 There are of Concoction two Periods; The one Assimilation, or Absolute Conuersion and Subaction; The other Maturation. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 771 In order to the subaction and detrusion of the aliments. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Subaction,..among Apothecaries, it is us'd for the working or soft'ning of Plaisters. 1752 E. Gilchrist in Med. Ess. & Observ. (Philos. Soc. Edinb.) (ed. 4) V. ii. xlviii. 37 Though the Vice of a particular Fluid may, by every repeated Circulation, be in part subdued in the larger Vessels; yet in its own Vessels it is still assuming the morbid Quality; because in these it does not suffer a due Subaction, as in the larger Vessels. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 277 The smaller ruminating animals, whose food, from the complexity of the organ, lies for a long time quiescent in a state of subaction. 2. An act of subjugating or subduing a person or thing. rare.Blount cites Bacon (cf. quot. 1626 at sense 1).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Subaction, a driving, or bringing under, a constraining or subduing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1626 |
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