| 释义 |
compressive, a.|kəmˈprɛsɪv|
[f. L. type *compressīv-us, f. compress- ppl. stem of comprimĕre: see -ive. So mod.F. compressif, -ive.]
1. Having the attribute or function of compressing; tending to compress.
1578Banister Hist. Man v. 67 The compressiue motion of the Ventricle and intrels. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 111 By reason of their compressiue faculty, being eaten after meate, they [apples] make the belly soluble, and helpe the subduction of excrements. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy v. xxxiii, His three fingers supported [the book] without the least compressive violence. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 171 The bark..has also a strong compressive energy, expelling moisture from the layers that successively assume the character of heart-wood. 1856Grote Greece ii. xci. XII. 21 A neighbour sure to be domineering and compressive, and likely enough to be tyrannical.
†2. Consisting in or caused by compression. Obs.
1572J. Jones Bathes of Bath i. 7 a, Ytching payne commeth of a tarte or salt humor..Compressiue, commeth of matter, or wyndines, that maketh narrowe, or constrayneth, the membre or part. 1662H. More Immort. Soul iii. i. 148 A more then ordinary Motion or compressive Rest may very well prove painful to the Soul.
Hence comˈpressively adv., with compression.
1830Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. ii, [My upbringing] was rigorous, too frugal, compressively secluded. |