单词 | agglutinative |
释义 | agglutinativeadj.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations to heal or generate tissue > [adjective] > regenerating flesh regenerativea1400 agglutinative1585 agglutinant1684 anaplerotic1721 anticachectic1773 plerotic1775 paratriptic1887 anaplerotical- 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. ii. v. 327 After this closing, dresse vp the wounde with some agglutinatiue medicine [L. medicamentis agglutinatoriis], made of such simples, as mastix, thus, aloe, sarcocolla, [etc.]. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. 326 The Topick and particular Medicines are Agglutinative. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. ii. 353 Rowl up the Member with the agglutinative Rowler. 1708 J. Moyle Chyrurg. Mem. xxii. 51 On the Stiches the Agglutinative Powder was sprinkled. 1780 P. Degravers Compl. Treat. Human Eye 145 You have nothing left but the operation, having tried, to no purpose, the use of emollient and humecting fomentations, agglutinative and astringent plaisters. 1824 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 21 47 Solution of continuity in bones is repaired by the agglutinative process. 2. Of or relating to agglutination (agglutination n. 3); tending to produce adhesion; adhesive, cementing. Also in extended use.In later general use perhaps also influenced by sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > closely, intimately, or permanently joined > cohesive > causing cohesion conglutinative?1541 conglutinating1639 agglutinative1790 cementing1802 agglutinant1828 1790 W. Nicholson tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Elements Nat. Hist. & Chem. (new ed.) I. 294 Semi-phlogisticated iron agglutinates earths; but iron, when very much calcined, possesses not the same agglutinative power. 1843 W. Humble Dict. Geol. Agglutinative, that which has the property of causing agglutination. 1879 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 289 Sawdust mixed with blood, or some other agglutinative substance, and compressed by powerful pressure in heated dies, is formed into doorknobs, hardware and furniture trimmings, [etc.]. 1938 F. D. Adams Birth & Devel. Geol. Sci. (1954) x. 334 Mountains have been formed by one (or other) of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and petrified during ages of which we have no record. 1996 Guardian 10 Dec. ii. 10/2 Always a bibliophile, Kiefer has developed a taste for reading the kind of stuff that gives you bed sores: esoteric texts..all stitched together by a kind of agglutinative interdisciplinarianism. 2001 D. J. Whittaker Terrorism Reader (2002) vii. 94 Arthur begins by quoting the description of Denis Donaghue, a fellow-Ulsterman, that memory is ‘agglutinative’—memories of the past are kept alive, the refreshed memories justify the events that occur. 3. Linguistics. Relating to or characterized by agglutination (agglutination n. 6); designating a language which employs agglutination as a characteristic process of word-formation. See also synthetic adj. 6; contrasted with analytic adj. 4, fusional adj., inflectional adj. 1. [In the following, apparently isolated, earlier example the word appears to be used in a distinct meaning ‘relating to the formation of new words’: 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 14 Greek hath the agglutinative faculty of incorporating words. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [adjective] > compound > specific types of compound or compounding augmentative1641 polysynthetic1816 bahuvrihi1846 polysynthetical1846 agglutinating1847 agglutinative1847 agglomerative1854 parasynthetic1862 endocentric1933 unhyphenated1934 1847 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) V. vi. i. 318 It is easy to perceive that the agglutinative system of formation, which is the principle of structure belonging to the American languages, must tend effectually to destroy resemblance. 1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. viii. 311 The chief distinction between an inflectional and an agglutinative language consists in the fact that agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots, and therefore do not allow them to be affected by phonetic corruption. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. xii. 232 Such words as un-tru-th-ful-ly preserve an agglutinative character. 1921 E. Sapir Lang. vi. 144 ‘Fusional’ and ‘symbolic’ contrast with ‘agglutinative’, which is not on a par with ‘inflective’ at all. What are we to do with the fusional and symbolic languages that do not express relational concepts in the word but leave them to the sentence? 1949 W. F. Albright Archaeol. Palestine viii. 183 The Hurrian language was a complex agglutinative tongue, resembling Sumerian or Turkish more closely in structure than either Semitic or Indo-European, but not related to any of them. 1980 National Geographic Dec. 731/2 Nahuatl at first can be as fearsome as Aztec gods; consider the agglutinative word notlazohtiachcauhtzitzihuane, which means ‘O my beloved brothers’. 2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Sept. 21/1 The language itself is not inflected as Semetic and Indo-European languages are, but agglutinative: grammatical and other elements are added on as prefixes and suffixes. 4. Medicine and Biology. Of, relating to, or causing agglutination (agglutination n. 7); = agglutinating adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > immunogenesis > [adjective] > agglutination agglutinating1896 agglutinative1896 isoagglutinative1902 haemagglutinating1921 isoagglutinating1921 1896 Lancet 19 Sept. 806/2 The use of the agglutinative action of human serum for the diagnosis of enteric fever. 1907 M. O. Leighton Pollution Illinois & Mississippi Rivers 302 The most important clinical test for typhoid is the Widal reaction or agglutinative test. 1958 Science 12 Dec. 1504/3 Saccharomyces kluyveri grows rapidly and is a rather strong fermenter. These characteristics, plus the agglutinative reaction, give the species industrial possibilities. 2009 Developmental & Compar. Immunol. 33 775/2 Only mannose, galactose and LPS were able to inhibit the agglutinative activity of the mixture. Compounds agglutinative plaster n. [after Middle French emplastre aglutinative (1585 in the source translated in quot. 1587, or earlier); compare post-classical Latin ligatura agglutinativa (1582 in Paré), deligatio agglutinativa (1616)] now historical and rare a medicated paste used to promote the agglutination of a wound (see sense 1). ΚΠ 1587 A. H. tr. J. Guillemeau Worthy Treat. Eyes (new ed.) ii. vii. 23 When hee hath bled sufficientlie..lay vpon that a plaister agglutinatiue [Fr. vne emplastre fort anglutinatiue; other occurrences of the adjective in the text are in form aglutinatif] that is, which hath vertue to knit and ioine together. 1589 J. Banister Antidotarie Chyrurg. 184 At the last straine it, and keepe it to your vse: wherewith you shall dresse the wound, and applie vpon it an agglutinatiue plaister. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xi. 45 Slips of Linen..spread with an Agglutinative Plaister. 1838 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 28 407 He survived for several months, and during this time the wound, although frequently closed by suture and agglutinative plaster, could not be made to unite. 1982 A. F. Wallace Progress Plastic Surg. viii. 84 As soon as the wound was cleansed, M. Galin adjusted the nose to its natural position and kept it in place by an agglutinative plaster and tapes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1585 |
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