单词 | succumbent |
释义 | † succumbentadj.n. Obsolete. rare. A. adj. 1. Subject, submissive to. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > [adjective] underheilda1300 underlouta1300 underling?1370 subjecta1382 obeisantc1390 obedienta1398 subditc1430 subordinatec1485 subjugal?c1500 liablec1571 subaltern1581 regardant1583 obnoxious1591 vassal1594 servient1606 subservient1638 succumbent1647 ancillary1667 secondary1667 supposite1677 discretional1776 obedientiary1794 heteronomousa1871 satellite1882 society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > [adjective] tholemodec1000 bowinga1340 subjectc1384 enclinant1400 yoldena1413 subjective1417 prostratec1425 obtemperate?a1475 subjected1550 subject-like1553 submiss1570 submissive1572 yielding1578 obnoxious1591 subordinate1594 subjectly1596 yieldable1603 dejective1611 passive1616 awebound1631 succumbent1647 resigning1648 complaisant1676 ovine1676 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 22 Christianity..makes not sense so much subject to reason, as reason succumbent to faith. 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 2 Queen Morphandra..useth to make Nature her self not only succumbent and passive to her desires, but [etc.]. 2. Underlying. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > situated or placed under underlaida1100 subjected?a1425 suppositivec1475 subject?1541 subjacent1598 subterjacent1598 underlying1611 subjunct1639 supposite1640 suppedaneous1646 subordinate1648 subdititious1657 substrated1663 succumbent1664 subtended1670 substrate1678 subadjacent1722 supposed1766 subtending1777 substrative1823 underset1845 infraposed1854 substant1883 underneath1894 underlappingc1900 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 114 Water, by its weight onely, and no innate Elatery, did depel the Succumbent Quicksilver in the Tube. 3. Succumbing. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > [adjective] > surrendering recreantc1330 capitulating1647 succumbent1812 surrendering1901 1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 81 The humanity of Morgan and Humphreys, towards a succumbent foe. B. n. (See quot. 1661 and kneeler n. 2a.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > [noun] > person undergoing > varieties of prostratea1600 succumbent1661 co-stander1709 prostrator1709 consistenta1711 kneeler1719 substrator1720 weeper1841 stander1877 scrupulant1938 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Succumbents,..antiently it signified those penitents or excommunicate persons that fell down on their knees and prayed in a certain place behind the Quire or Pulpit. 1850 J. M. Neale Hist. Holy Eastern Church: Pt. 1 I. Introd. i. 210 The Succumbentes were passing the silver gates on their way out.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.n.1647 |
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