单词 | adduction |
释义 | adductionn.1 1. a. The action or process of conveying something, esp. towards another; the fact of being so conveyed. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting adductiona1398 carriage1423 conveying1483 transporting1500 conveyancec1520 convey1587 transportance1609 transport1611 transvection1615 transportal1837 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. vii. 69 It nediþ [þat] þe ouer aungels alwey teche and lede þe neþir aungelis, þat þey mowe be knowinge, to þe bischinynge and illuminacioun, adduccioun [L. aductionem] and comunicacioun, induccioun..and percepcioun of God. 1631 J. Wilson Zacheus Converted 226 They have accesse to God, a singular priviledge, adduction into his presence by one Spirit; Ephes. 2, 18. 1674 J. Owen Πνευματολογια ii. iv. 143 The Adduction or bringing of the Beast to be Sacrificed unto the Door of the Tabernacle according to the Law. 1744 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Aphorisms Boerhaave II. 239 If any part was cut from the wound, the divided parts cannot be rendered contiguous..whence always follows..an injury to the action of the parts from the violent adduction of them. 1760 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (ed. 2) II. cccxxxviii. 395 Like Ideas, which arise and vanish in the Memory, without the Minds being able to account for their Adduction, or Remotion. 1981 J. B. Twitchell Living Dead iv. 130 Carmilla's magnetic pull draws her in... As this adduction progresses, it becomes clearer that Carmilla is a lamia. ΚΠ 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια Pref. 1 Afterward I descend... To Iunction also, Simple and Compound, Simple in Adduction, Adaptation, and the way how to Conteine them so fitted together. 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xxii. 254 The Bending of a Line, is either the adduction or diduction of the extreme parts, that is, a motion from Straightness to Crookedness, or contrarily. c. In the writings of medieval and Renaissance theologians, esp. Duns Scotus: the action or process by which Christ's body is brought into the bread during the Eucharist; an instance of this. historical in later use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > eucharistic doctrines > transubstantiation > [noun] trans-substancingc1380 transubstantiation1533 turnkind1548 adduction1638 transubstantiating1800 carnification1826 transubstantialization1830 transubstantialism1842 transelementing1855 transfinalization1965 transignification1965 1610 T. Morton Encounter against M. Parsons ii. i. 3 Bellarmine, in defence of Transubstantiation, saith that the conuersion of the bread into the bodie of Christ, is not wrought by production of the bodie of Christ out of the bread, but by Adduction of the bodie vnto the bread.] 1638 D. Featley Transubstant. Exploded 182 Such an adduction importeth onely a translocation and not a substantiall conversion, when one substance onely succeeds in the place of another. 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon 362 If the bread be transubstantiated into the body of Christ, it is either by production or adduction. 1676 J. Cosin Hist. Popish Transubstant. vi. 118 It is more than absurd, that the body of Christ, or any other substance already in being..should be made afresh of another substance, when it really subsisted before. Which they well understood who devised an adduction, or bringing of the Body of Christ into the place of the Bread. 1705 H. Newcome Transubstant. Discuss'd i. 61 If you explain the Matter by the Adduction of Christ's Body into the room of the Substance of the Bread, you destroy Transubstantiation. 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. vii. 21 It was disputed..whether the divinity assumed the bread, or the species thereof, by a new hypostatical union call impanation? whether it was a material or a formal change, and if a conversion of the whole substance, whether by production, or by adduction, or by conservation? 1878 F. J. Pabisch & T. S. Byrne tr. J. B. Alzog Man. Universal Church Hist. III. iii. i. iv. 347 The Fathers gave no attention at all to the quarrel between the Franciscans and Dominicans as to the mode of Christ's Presence, whether it is by production or adduction. 2002 T. M. Schmalz Radical Cartesianism (2004) 41 There is little doubt that his [sc. Desgabets'] reading of Descartes's views led him to consider the philosophical basis for his rejection of Scotist adduction in favor of Thomistic conversion. 2. Anatomy and Zoology. The action of bringing a part of the body toward the median plane or midline, or of bringing two parts together. Also: the condition of being adducted. Contrasted with abduction n. 4. Cf. later adduct v. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [noun] > turning inwards > drawing towards a centre adduction1649 1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia 209 Despaire makes the Cheeks to fall or sinke; they who think the former affectation of the Mind to be performed by the help of no Muscle apposite to that action, conceive this adduction or contraction of the Cheekes is performed by the Muscle Buccinator. 1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 62 They [sc. the muscles] can perform adduction, abduction; flexion, extension; pronation, supination. 1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 129 The motion of the Humerus..is rather Flexion and Extension, than Adduction or Abduction. 1787 W. Jackson Observ. Inefficacious Use Irons 21 (note) The foot can be moved in four different directions; by flexion, or drawing it downwards;..adduction, or being turned inwards. 1835 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 43 179 Flexion and adduction is a symptom characteristic of encephalitis. 1880 Lancet 25 Dec. 1010/1 Adduction, as is well known, is very common in hip disease. 1949 S. Duke-Elder Text-bk. Ophthalmol. IV. xlv. 3814 Depending on whether the [eye] movement is in, out, up or down, the terms adduction, abduction, supraduction (sursumduction) and infraduction (deorsumduction) are employed. 1966 Science 22 Apr. 523/1 At adduction of the valves, high pressure occurs both in the hemocoel and the mantle cavity. 2000 J. Sundberg in J. Potter Cambr. Compan. Singing xix. 238 The voiced source is also influenced by the degree of glottal adduction (the force by which the laryngeal muscles press the vocal folds together). 3. The bringing forward of facts or statements as evidence; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] i-witnessc888 witshipc900 warranting1303 recordc1330 witnessingc1330 bearingc1400 testificationc1450 certificate1472 certification1532 induction1551 suffrage1563 vouching1574 testifying1585 attestation1598 testation1642 attesting1661 adduction1687 attestment1850 1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose iii. v. 606 The Probation of the Assumption, by adduction of many Instances, which I shall only cursorly glean out of that plentiful harvest that Histories afford. 1765 J. Swinton in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 399 The Chaldee term being of the singular number..the adduction of it seems altogether impertinent. 1789 A. Harper Treat. Real Cause & Cure Insanity 43 The adduction of so many fair arguments and weighty facts, in support of the conclusions which they establish. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. ii. 61 The adduction of such parts of Scripture as furnish an obvious ground for the conclusion. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 280 These attributes are so characteristic..that..their adduction gives a measure of authority to the statement. 1956 Times 7 June 15/3 The departmental head seeking the exclusion of any evidence should be required to state in his affidavit whether the adduction of such evidence would be prejudicial to the national security. 1992 R. DeMaria in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 30 The importance of these adductions is that, although brief, they do not seem to come from reference works. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). adductionn.2 Chemistry. The combination of one molecule with another to form a larger molecule with no other products; = addition n. 7. Cf. adduct n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > chemical processes or reactions > [noun] > addition adduction1952 1952 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 74 1027/2 The double bond..is located in that part of the molecule which is formed last, i.e., by the adduction of the second molecule of cyclopentadiene. 1967 Science 1 Sept. 1040/3 The adduction of cholestane..has been confirmed by x-ray analysis. 2000 Chem. Res. in Toxicol. 13 850/1 The adduct structure was only tentatively assigned, and it is difficult to envisage a reasonable pathway for the generation of this adduction product. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1a1398n.21952 |
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