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lentor|ˈlɛntə(r), ˈlɛntɔː(r)|
Also 7 lentour.
[ad. F. lenteur or L. lentor (sense 1), f. lentus slow.]
1. Of the blood, etc.: Clamminess, tenacity, viscidity. Now rare.
1626Bacon Sylva §900 All Matter whereof Creatures are produced by Putrefaction haue euermore a Closenesse, Lentour, and Sequacity. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xiv. 486 In this Disease the whole Blood does not presently acquire that lentor or sliminess. 1699Evelyn Acetaria 36 Arborescent Holi-hocks..by reason of their clamminess and Lentor, banished from our Sallet. 1744Berkeley Siris §52 There is lentor and smoothness in the blood of healthy strong people. 1797J. Downing Disord. Horned Cattle 3 This medicine..extinguishes the inflammatory lentor. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 560 That [hypothesis] of Boerhaave founded on the doctrine of a peculiar viscosity, or lentor of the blood.
†b. concr. A viscid component of the blood.
c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. viii. (1738) 38 A great deal of Lenter may undoubtedly be squeezed through the smallest vessels. 1722Quincey Lex. Phys.-Med. (ed. 2), Lentor hath been used.. to express that sizy, viscid, coagulated Part of the Blood, which in malignant Fevers obstructs the capillary Vessels.
2. Slowness; want of vital activity.
a1763Shenstone Wks. & Lett. (1768) II. 228 Persons of a phlegmatic constitution have..a lentor which wine may naturally remove. 1779J. Lovell in J. Adams' Wks. (1854) IX. 487 Nor can I omit to call to your mind..that the lentor of proceedings here should account for the appearances of injustice done you. 1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 297/1 The extreme lentor of all their [serpents'] digestive functions. |