单词 | trituration |
释义 | triturationn. The action or process of triturating; reduction to fine particles or powder by friction; comminution, pulverization. a. Pharmacology, Geology, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > grinding or pounding > [noun] grindc1200 grinding1340 contritionc1384 brayingc1440 milling1466 braisinga1500 comminution1578 pealing1582 pounding1591 contusion1617 pulping1640 pistillation1646 trituration1646 triture1657 commolition1658 grist1676 porphyrization1771 comminuting1776 atomization1865 micronization1941 micronizing1941 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. vii. 197 A pumice-stone powdered is lighter then one entire,..for..abatement can hardly be avoyded in the Trituration . View more context for this quotation 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 46 Earths..are..reduced to the utmost tenuity by trituration or grinding. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 2 Disputing..whether sand and pebbles were the result of aqueous trituration. 1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 318 By the continual trituration of the runner, the ore is reduced and amalgamation effected. b. Physiology: see triturate v. b. ΚΠ 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Trituration, (in Physick) the action of the stomach on the food. 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 73 Blood Globules, by their Rotundity, Volubility, and Elasticity, resist Trituration, that is, Digestion. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xvi. 312 Without the trituration of the gizzard; a chicken would have starved upon a heap of corn. c. transferred. A mass produced, or medicine prepared, by trituration. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > powder > [noun] powder1340 trituration1890 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Trituration... 2. A preparation directed by the U.S. P[harmacopœia]... T. of elaterin, elaterin 10, saccharum lactis 90; triturate (U.S.P.). 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. viii. 153 He injected bouillon containing a trituration of one of these flies into a guinea-pig. d. figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun] rusteOE vice1297 corrumpciona1340 infectiona1398 corruptiona1400 foulinga1400 viciousness1440 inquination1447 turpitude1490 intoxicationa1513 pravitya1513 bracery1540 insincerity1548 corruptness1561 sophistication1564 faultiness1571 depravation1577 base-mindedness1582 mangling1585 reprobacy1591 uninnocence1593 vitiosity1603 turkessing1612 reprobancea1616 debauchedness1618 tortuosity1621 depravedness1623 deboistness1628 debauchness1640 depravity1646 corruptedness1648 moral turpitude1660 unprincipledness1792 demoralization1797 erosion1804 miscreancy1804 trituration1832 unwholesomeness1881 ne'er-do-wellism1891 1832 I. Taylor Sat. Evening 344 The royal Image and Superscription by the trituration and corrosion it undergoes in the common world becomes continually less and less distinct. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xl. 528 Wealthy nobles..whose means were in process of trituration under the pressure of the imperial imposts. 1909 Edinb. Rev. July 214 This trituration of the people has produced a multitude of dialects. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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