单词 | brunonian |
释义 | Brunonianadj.n. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΚΠ 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). < adj.n.1781 |
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