单词 | unloosing |
释义 | unloosingn. The action of unloose v. (in various senses); an act or instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > release from confinement unbinding1382 releasing1395 loosing1415 dischargec1458 enlargement1540 release1559 relaxationa1578 unloosing1578 bail1598 loosening1598 releasant1606 enlarge1608 dismission1609 eluctation1627 to let go1631 relaxating1647 unfetteringa1653 disimprisonment1656 disimprisoning1659 absolute discharge1729 disincarceration1831 decarceration1963 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > [noun] undoinga1425 leesingc1440 loosing1482 dissolution1548 unlocking1568 unloosing1578 loosening1598 unbinding1598 untying1598 abstriction1650 unclenching1688 unclinching1688 apoptosis1749 unreeving1775 unloosening1793 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxviii. 761 The same dronken before the vnloosing of the belly prouoketh appetite. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Dislegamenti, vnloosings, vnbindings. 1647 R. Hollingworth Rejoynder to S. Eaton xxxiv. 99 The limitation of the agent in relation to the object..is that wherein the knot lies; to the unlosing of which you may observe [etc.]. 1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 201 One of the iron straps..unhooked; and..could not be replaced without great force, or unloosing. 1788 J. Tytler New & Conc. Syst. Geogr. Introd. p. lvi The globe disengaged itself by the unloosing of a spring, and ascended. 1831 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 80 The unloosing of Anti-Christ and Satan. 1867 Ladies' Repository Mar. 138/1 The unloosings of force in matter and mind. 1962 Shakespeare Q. 13 208 The basis of the play is a contrast between the complicated interweaving of different kinds of human action..and the rapid miraculous unloosing at the end. 2010 E. A. Hagan Goodbye Yeats & O'Neill ii. 52 The consequent unloosing of horrific violence, mostly upon the residents of those communities themselves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). unloosingadj.1 rare. That unlooses (in various senses of unloose v.); that unbinds or unfastens. ΚΠ a1425 ( H. Daniel Liber Uricrisiarum (Wellcome 225) 116 (MED) Diuretyk is undoand & unlowsand; stiptyk is constrictyf & consolidatyf, id est byndand. 1931 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 49 374 Pico conceived of these ferments as possessing an unloosing action on the bacterially contained principle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). unloosingadj.2 rare. That does not loosen; that cannot be loosened. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > [adjective] > of knots or bands > not loosened or becoming loose unloosedc1424 unloosing1593 unslippinga1616 1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) iii. met. ii. 46 Nature..strains with vnlousing Knot [L. irresoluto nexu] eche thing. 2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 16 July a10 Political and historical geography are a fascinating but unloosing tangle; it is as well that we invented ‘states’ with boundaries that cut each Gordian knot. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578adj.1a1425adj.21593 |
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