acuationn.

Brit.

/ˌakjʊˈeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌækjuˈweɪʃ(ə)n/,

/ˌækjəˈweɪʃ(ə)n/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: acuate v., -ion suffix¹.

Etymology: < acuate v. + -ion suffix¹; compare -ation suffix. Compare post-classical Latin acuatio action of whetting or sharpening (from 1316 in British sources). Compare acuition n.In quot. 1837 rendering German Zuschärfung ( A. G. Werner Von den äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (1774) 178).

Now rare.

The process of making something sharp or sharper, in various senses. Cf. acuate adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increasing in intensity or degree

risinga1398

upcreeping1611

acuationa1655

heightening1774

strengthening1794

upswelling1855

exalting1859

intensifying1863

enhancive1889

a1655 W. Cooper tr. G. Starkey Secrets Reveal'd (1669) vii. 15 Which acuation is made by sublimation... The seventh sublimation will so strengthen the ☿, that it will become a most convenient Bath for thy King.

1678 Ripley Reviv'd 258 The darkness vanishing, and the light appearing, after many showrs, before the flight of each Eagle, our Water being thus acuated, is by Acuation purged, and then it becomes powerful in dissolving the Body.

1815 F. Barrett Lives Alchemystical Philosophers 262 One oily vegetable..is sufficient for the acuation of the spirit of philosophical wine.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. xv. i. 197 Werner..had formally spoken of truncation, acuation, and acumination , or replacement by a plane, an edge, a point respectively, as ways in which the forms of crystals are modified.

1927 Psychol. Rev. 34 469 It is significant indeed that the song which..showed the greatest tendency to acuation of the melodic curve should have been a woman's song.

1979 Ambix 26 162 We can find some sort of process of ‘acuation’ in all of the papers on regimens.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	acuation
释义	acuationn. Brit. /ˌakjʊˈeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌækjuˈweɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌækjəˈweɪʃ(ə)n/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: acuate v., -ion suffix¹. Etymology: < acuate v. + -ion suffix¹; compare -ation suffix. Compare post-classical Latin acuatio action of whetting or sharpening (from 1316 in British sources). Compare acuition n.In quot. 1837 rendering German Zuschärfung ( A. G. Werner Von den äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (1774) 178). Now rare. The process of making something sharp or sharper, in various senses. Cf. acuate adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increasing in intensity or degree risinga1398 upcreeping1611 acuationa1655 heightening1774 strengthening1794 upswelling1855 exalting1859 intensifying1863 enhancive1889 a1655 W. Cooper tr. G. Starkey Secrets Reveal'd (1669) vii. 15 Which acuation is made by sublimation... The seventh sublimation will so strengthen the ☿, that it will become a most convenient Bath for thy King. 1678 Ripley Reviv'd 258 The darkness vanishing, and the light appearing, after many showrs, before the flight of each Eagle, our Water being thus acuated, is by Acuation purged, and then it becomes powerful in dissolving the Body. 1815 F. Barrett Lives Alchemystical Philosophers 262 One oily vegetable..is sufficient for the acuation of the spirit of philosophical wine. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. xv. i. 197 Werner..had formally spoken of truncation, acuation, and acumination , or replacement by a plane, an edge, a point respectively, as ways in which the forms of crystals are modified. 1927 Psychol. Rev. 34 469 It is significant indeed that the song which..showed the greatest tendency to acuation of the melodic curve should have been a woman's song. 1979 Ambix 26 162 We can find some sort of process of ‘acuation’ in all of the papers on regimens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1655
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