单词 | substration |
释义 | † substrationn.1 Obsolete. 1. Church History. The action of kneeling or prostrating oneself in attending a service characteristic of the order of penitents in the early church known as prostrators (see prostrator n. 2). Also: the place where these penitents knelt or prostrated themselves. Cf. substrator n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > gesture of repentance veny?c1225 substration1646 humicubation1656 society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > [noun] > person undergoing > behaviour of > prostration of > place for substration1646 society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > [noun] > person undergoing > behaviour of > prostration of substration1716 1646 G. Gillespie Aarons Rod iii. xvii. 559 The substration is that standing within the Church door, he go forth with the Catechumens. 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 320 This place was called ὑποπτωσις Substration, because there they did..throw themselves down to receive the Priests blessing. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 254 The different degrees of Penitential Fletion, Audition, Substration and Consistence, or Standing together with the Orthodox Flock. 1861 tr. N. Bulgaris Holy Catech. i. 78 Here clearly we see Weeping, Hearing, Substration, and Consistence which are the four grades of Penitents. 2. Logic. The action of making a hypothesis about something. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > hypothesis > [noun] supposition1603 postulate1643 hypothesis1646 system1650 substration1830 1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 256 Theory is = Ordination. Hypothesis is = Substration. 1853 S. Neil Art Reasoning ii. 81 These hypotheses are subjected to investigation; and if the phenomena which are being inquired into arrange themselves naturally and uncontradictorily in the manner which the substration had a priori fixed upon, the hypothesis is considered proved. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). substrationn.2 Biochemistry. The binding of an enzyme or other molecule to a substrate. ΚΠ 1956 Biochem. Jrnl. 63 57/1 If ‘substration’, as this complex-formation has been called, is associated with a shift of the pK of an ionizing group on the enzyme or substrate, the curve will have a wave. 1962 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 56 528 Even if the binding of the inhibiting substance occurs close to the active site, deviation..from unity would require that isotope effects be transmitted from the site of substration to the inhibitor site. 2008 M. McCabe & D. J. Maguire in D. J. Maguire et al. Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXVIII 87 The charge change which accompanies substration and desubstration of the haemoglobin molecule. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11646n.21956 |
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