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单词 subact
释义 I. subact, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. subact-us, pa. pple. of subigĕre, f. sub- sub- 2, 26 + agĕre to bring.]
Subdued, reduced; brought under control or discipline; brought under cultivation.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 287 At the laste Fraunce was subacte to Iulius Cesar, and occupyede by Romanes.Ibid. II. 103 The Danes other put to fliȝhte other subacte.c1440Pallad. on Husb. iv. 499 In Nouember & Marche her braunchis sette In donged lond, subact.a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 11 The masculine and subact judgement of Juvenal.1694Motteux Rabelais v. xxii. 103 A subact and sedate Intellection, associated with diligent and congruous Study.1729W. Reeve Serm. 353 The yoke of Christ is a reasonable service to a man of subact judgment.
II. suˈbact, v. Obs.
[f. L. subact-, pa. ppl. stem of subigĕre (see prec.).]
1. trans. To work up, as in cultivating the ground, kneading, the process of digestion, or the like.
1614Jackson Creed iii. iii. vii. §1 That faith could not take roote in them, vnlesse first wrought and subacted by extraordinary signes and wonders.1615Crooke Body of Man 411 He thinketh, that the blood is carried..into the right ventricle of the Heart.., and is there boyled attenuated and subacted.1626Bacon Sylva §27 Tangible Bodies haue no pleasure in the Consort of Aire, but endeauour to subact it into a more Dense Body.1658tr. Porta's Nat. Magic iv. xii. 137 He subacts the Barn-flores with Lees of Oyl, that Mice may not eat his Corn.1697Evelyn Numismata To Rdr., Some Corners, and little Wasts, not altogether subacted.1822Good Study Med. I. 10 Being softened or otherwise partially affected, instead of being entirely subacted, and reduced to chyme or chyle.
2. To bring into subjection; to subject, subdue.
1645Bp. Hall Rem. Discontentm. §19 The meek spirit is..so throughly subacted, that he takes his load from God..upon his knees.a1680T. Goodwin Life Wks. 1703 V. i. p. xi, I lay bound as it were Hand and Foot, subacted under the Pressure of the Guilt of Wrath.
Hence suˈbacted ppl. a.; suˈbacter, one who works up substances.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 615 Anoint the hands of the subacter..with Oyl.1679Evelyn Sylva (ed. 3) To Rdr. a, Persons of right Noble and subacted Principles.a1706Hist. Relig. (1850) II. 375 A meek and subacted Christian.1822Good Study Med. IV. 272 The absorbents which drink up the subacted food from the alvine canal.
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