单词 | sustentacle |
释义 | † sustentaclen. Obsolete. 1. a. That which supports or upholds something; a support; a basis. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports staffc1000 hold1042 source1359 legc1380 shorer1393 stabilimenta1398 upholder1398 sustentationa1400 undersetterc1400 bearinga1425 undersettinga1425 suppowellc1430 triclinec1440 sustentaclec1451 supportera1475 sustainerc1475 sustenal1483 stayc1515 buttress1535 underpinning1538 firmament1554 countenance1565 support1570 appuia1573 comfort1577 hypostasis1577 underpropping1586 porter1591 supportation1593 supportance1597 understaya1603 bearer1607 rest1609 upsetter1628 mountinga1630 sustent1664 underlay1683 holdfast1706 abutment1727 suppeditor1728 mount1739 monture1746 bed1793 appoggiatura1833 bracing1849 bench1850 under-pinner1859 bolster-piece1860 sustainer1873 table mount1923 c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 71 Whan he slept his hed hing down with-outen sustentacle and touchid sumtyme his brest. ?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) i. sig. Sviv Stronge sustentacles and sure stayes hathe God made the vpholders of his true church. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. G4 That God's the sustentacle of all Natures. 1733 A. Baxter Enq. Nature Human Soul i. xxiv. 31 To extend the arm, or leg, supposes the trunk..a firm sustentacle to afford resistance. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Landen, John Without that distinction, his contempt would have had no sustentacle on which to erect itself. b. The action of providing something. rare. ΚΠ ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 219 Bestes and other creatures, whiche were create to the solace of man, to the sustentacle [L. sustentaculum] of recreacion. 2. Zoology and Anatomy. A supporting part or structure; esp. the sustentaculum tali. Cf. sustentaculum n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > supporting structure sustentaculum1841 pedunculation1848 sustentacle1853 stem1861 1853 E. Forbes & S. Hanley Hist. Brit. Mollusca II. 548 [Ianthina]... Animal with a large muzzle-shaped head, bearing a tentacle and a sustentacle on each side, but presenting no traces of eyes. 1889 J. Leidy Elem. Treat. Human Anat. (ed. 2) iii. 213 The calcaneum above, in advance of its tuberosity, present a large fossa partially resting on a process, the sustentacle, which overhangs the inner side of the bone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1451 |
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