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单词 lachrymate
释义 lachrymate, v.|ˈlækrɪmeɪt|
Also lacrimate.
[f. L. lacrimāre to weep: see -ate3.]
(See quots. 1623 and 1656.) Now current chiefly in scientific use (cf. lachrymal a. and n.), with the sense: to discharge moisture from the eyes. Hence ˈlachrymating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1623Cockeram, Lachrymate, to lament, to bewaile.1656Blount Glossogr., Lachrymate, to weep, to drop with moisture.
1922Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 110/2 If a sufficient number of lachrymating grenades could be thrown.1944Brit. Jrnl. Ophthalm. XXVIII. 330 The patient lacrimates when he salivates.1962W. K. McEwen in H. Davson Eye III. x. 272 In man there is the added ability to weep, or lacrimate, which is an excessive outpouring of the lacrimal gland.1964Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalm. LVIII. 1056/1 Tension in lacrimating patients is more easily measured with the Schiøtz tonometer.
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