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单词 brunonian
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Brunonianadj.n.

Brit. /bruːˈnəʊnɪən/, U.S. /bruˈnoʊniən/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Brunon- , Bruno , -ian suffix.
Etymology: < Brunon-, Bruno Latinized form of the surname Brown + -ian suffix. In senses A. 1 and B. 1 after the name of John Brown (1735–88), Scottish physician, who published his theory of medicine in 1780 ( Elementa Medicinæ). In senses A. 2 and B. 2 immediately after the name of Brown University, an Ivy League University in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., founded in 1764 as The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and renamed in 1804 after Nicholas Brown Jr. (1769–1841), businessman and philanthropist, in recognition of a large donation to the institution; compare e.g. Oxonian n., Cantabrian adj., etc.Compare the following isolated earlier instance of Brunonian to denote a follower of Maximilian Ulysses, Reichsgraf von Browne, Baron de Camus and Mountany (1705–57), Austrian military leader:1747 Old England 20 June The glorious Expedition to Bretagne is as much buried in Silence as the Advisers of it could wish; as is likewise the Day..of Slaughter and Havock! which happened among our Countrymen, waging unequal War in Lowerland, for want of the Assistance of the Governor's Brunonian Troops.
A. adj.
I. Senses relating to John Brown.
1. Medicine. Designating a theory of medicine according to which diseases are believed to arise from deficiency or excess of nervous excitement, and hence to be curable with stimulant or sedative drugs and therapies. Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical theories or doctrines > [adjective] > other theories or doctrines
empiric?a1425
empirical1569
dogmatical1596
dogmatic1615
Brunonian1781
Thomsonian1833
pneumatic1842
stœchiological1875
solidistic1876
biochemical1885
orificial1887
physiatric1897
naturopathic1901
orgonomic1949
bioethical1971
1781 R. Jones Inq. State Med. viii. 125 Physicians were all thrown into an inextricable perplexity; the solution of which, upon the Brunonian principles, is perfectly easy.
1788 J. Brown Elements Med. II. 300 And he will find, that the Brunonian doctrine, as it is now nick-named by those who know it not, is not a doctrine to be practised without knowledge.
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 147 The Brunonian method of preventing or curing indirect debility.
1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) II. 79 The Brunonian hypothesis, nevertheless, offers one principle that is unquestionably founded on fact..; I mean, that of accumulated excitability from an absence or defect of stimuli.
1900 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Aug. 281/1 The Brunonian system, explaining all diseases as due to laxity of fibre, was no better.
1990 Comprehensive Psychiatry 31 144 One of the important offshoots of Brunonian theory was that bleeding was discredited as a treatment of asthenic diseases.
2000 Sci. Amer. Oct. 86/2 Brunonian theories created such a furor that the man had his defenders and detractors fighting it out in the streets of Göttingen.
II. Senses relating to Nicholas Brown Jr.
2. U.S. Of or relating to Brown University or its members.
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society > education > place of education > college or university > [adjective] > university > specific university
Cantabrigianc1540
Sorbonical1543
Oxon.1705
Oxfordish1842
Brunonian1857
Princetonian1858
Cantab1870
Oxford1886
Cantabrigian1887
Sorbonnic1893
Oxfordy1924
1857 New Hampsh. Statesman 2 May The Alpha Delta Phi Catalogue..has been sent to us by the editor.., a member of the Brunonian Chapter.
1890 Chicago Tribune 2 Apr. 5/3 The audience..joined the undergraduates in the old Brunonian cheer: Rah-rah-rah—rah-rah-rah-B-r-o-w-n.
1916 Boston Sunday Post 19 Nov. 18/2 Brown's three touchdowns..will be embossed in Brunonian annals for some years to come.
1960 N.Y. Herald Tribune 23 June 29/4 Half the..schools [in the rowing regatta] are as informal as Brown, so the Brunonian victory..wasn't a startling upset.
2015 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 24 May a1 Nelson, the Brown University chaplain, reeled off the ‘Brunonian’ shorthand for buildings, classes, and majors.
B. n.
I. Senses relating to John Brown.
1. Medicine. An advocate of the Brunonian theory of medicine (see sense A. 1). Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > 19th or 20th century
Brunonian1785
Thomsonian1853
naturopath1901
Pasteurian1920
Couéist1922
1785 Crit. Rev. Nov. 331 We shall not enlarge on this subject, as we find the Brunonians are equally ignorant of the operations of nature, and the effect of medicines.
1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I. at Brunonianism The Brunonian explains it in this manner.
1882 Standard 13 Dec. 5/5 The Brunonians, of whom some adherents still linger in Italy.
1988 M. Barfoot in Med. Hist. Suppl. No. 8. 24 Somewhere in between the Brunonians and anti-Brunonians was yet another group.
2010 C. Lawrence in D. P. Miller & P. H. Reill Visions Empire (new ed.) v. 96 These Brunonians, as they were termed, often cultivated political views which encompassed some shade of radicalism.
II. Senses relating to Nicholas Brown Jr.
2. U.S. A student or graduate of Brown University.In quot. 1829 in the title of a student magazine.
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society > education > member of university > [noun] > (former) specific university or college
mountainer?a1425
Cantabrigianc1540
Oxonianc1540
Sorbonist1560
Oxford man1590
Oxfordian1645
Johnian1655
hog1690
Harvardian1702
squil1721
Cantab1751
king's man1751
Wadhamite1760
Princetonian1807
Brunonian1829
merchant tailor1829
Trinitarian1852
houseman1868
polytechnician1871
Mertonian1883
Cheltonian1887
Girtonian1887
Girtonite1894
Newnhamite1896
woman1896
normalien1904
Somervillian1904
Orangeman1908
Tab1914
Ivy Leaguer1943
Oxbridgean1959
plate-glasser1968
Yalie1969
1829 (title) The Brunonian (edited by students of Brown University).
1890 Chicago Tribune 2 Apr. 5/3 Brown has evidently been prolific of musically gifted progeny, for half the numbers on the program were credited..to some Brunonian.
1908 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 5 Jan. v. 5/1 Under the..lofty elms of the Brown University campus.., successive generations of Brunonians come and go.
1985 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 July 24/3 How could I say no to a fellow Brunonian?
2014 M. O. Ndesandjo An Obama's Journey ix. 132 Here [at Brown], thousands of Brunonians burned the midnight oil.

Derivatives

Bruˈnonianism n. Medicine (now historical) Brunonian theory or practice (see sense A. 1).
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1790 Eng. Rev. Sept. 210 We know not what errors our author may have been guilty of before he was enlightened by Brunonianism.
1865 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Aug. 139/1 Even to this day, a warm contest is carried on..between the senior and the junior parts of the profession, the former still inclining to Brunonianism, while the latter attribute nearly all diseases to inflammation.
1926 Amer. Mercury July 327/1 Mesmerism, Brunonianism..and animal magnetism contended for favor.
2008 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 69 33 There are many significant ways in which Brunonianism is connected with Nugent and Burke's sublime visions of life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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