单词 | vivi- |
释义 | vivi-comb. form combining form of Latin vīvus alive, living, employed in a few terms, as † vivicomˈbustion n. Obsolete = vivicremation n. vivicreˈmation n. the action of burning, or the fact of being burned, alive.† vividiˈssection n. Obsolete = vivisection n. 2. vivisepulture n. burying alive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > dissection > vivisection > operation involving vividissectiona1711 vivisection1859 the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > burning vivicremation1828 vivicombustion1852 necklacing1986 the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > burying alive vivisepulture1861 a1711 G. Grey Life M. Robinson in Mayor Autobiogr. (1856) 31 He was invited by some learned persons in other colleges to shew them vividisections of dogs. 1828 G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy II. iv. ii. 316 The horrid penalty of vivicremation which a corrupt Church has specially appropriated to those whom she denominates heretics. 1852 J. W. Blakesley Herodotus I. 87 Many centuries afterwards..human sacrifices appear to have been offered to Mithras, but then not by vivi-combustion. 1861 R. F. Burton City of Saints 580 They are a superstitious brood and have many cruel practices—human sacrifices and vivisepulture. 1863 Liddell in Archaeol. XL. 243 Pliny speaks of the practice of vivisepulture as continued to his own time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < comb. forma1711 |
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