单词 | subsultatory |
释义 | † subsultatoryadj. Obsolete. rare. Involving or characterized by sudden leaps, jerks, or starts; = subsultory adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > making sudden leaps or springs startingc1440 subsultatory1541 subsultory1638 subsultorious1650 subsultive1750 1541 G. Joye Frutefull Treatis Baptyme & Lordis Souper sig. Ciiiv In the..sacraments ther ar many thingis..which soden sondrely attributing of the same name & subsultatory speche..make men to apere to speke strangely. 1860 tr. P. G. M. Cavalleri in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 19 105 Shocks of earthquake..may be distinguished..into undulatory and horizontal, subsultatory [It. sussultorie] and vertical, and mixed shocks, the last being by far the most frequent. 1862 R. Mallet Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857 II. li. 158 At Palmi, sharp subsultatory shocks. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1541 |
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