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单词 combust
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combustadj.

Brit. /kəmˈbʌst/, U.S. /kəmˈbəst/
Etymology: < Old French combust (14th cent. in Godefroy), < Latin combūstus , past participle of combūrĕre : see combure v.
1.
a. Burnt; spec. acted on by fire, calcined. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [adjective] > burnt
ybrent1297
burnta1382
combustc1386
conflagrated1814
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 258 Combust matirs and coagulat.
1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 64 Of a Combust terrestrietie.
1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 80v, in Bulwarke of Defence The skinnes of them combust or burnt.
1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber i. iii. 6 Cast it combust into hot Water.
b. Adust. combust choler n. ‘choler adust’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > black bile as cause of melancholy
black choleraa1398
choler adusta1400
black choler?a1425
melancholic1590
atrabile1594
combust choler1607
black bile1634
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > [noun] > bilious disorders
black choleraa1398
black humoura1398
cholera1398
melancholya1398
choler adusta1400
black choler?a1425
melancholiousness1526
burnt choler1578
atrabile1594
combust choler1607
black bile1634
polycholia1799
bile1803
acholia1835
biliousness1856
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion > humours > specific humours
phlegmc1250
moisturea1387
melancholyc1390
cholera1393
black humoura1398
choleraa1398
melancholiaa1398
coldness1398
sanguineness1530
atrabile1594
combust choler1607
primary humour1621
black bile1634
cambium1634
yellow bile1634
kapha1937
pitta1937
dosha1959
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse xii. 67 Two kindes of melancholy, the one sequestred from all admixtion..the other..a combust black choler.
c. as n. That which is burnt.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > that which is burnt
combusta1834
burner1838
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 411 The combustive, the combustible, and the combust.
2.
a. Astrology. Of the planets: Burnt up (as it were) by the sun in or near conjunction; (seemingly) extinguished by the sun's light.‘A planet is combust when within 8° 30′ of the body of the sun: its influence is then said to be burnt up, or destroyed.’
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the world > the universe > heavenly body > [adjective] > eclipse > by sun
combustc1374
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 668 If I had, O Venus..Aspectes badde of Mars, or of Saturne, Or thou combuste.
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §4. 19 The lord of the assendent..is fortunat..whan..þat he be nat retrograd ne combust.
1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things iv. 107 If in the Natiuitie of the Husband, Venus be Combust: the wyfe shall dye before the husbande.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 30 Who can discern those planets that are oft Combust..untill the opposite motion of their orbs bring them..where they may be seen evning or morning.
1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. xx. 154 Many a planetary sign, Combust, and retrogade [sic], and trine.
b. combust way n. ‘the space in the second half of Libra, and through the whole Sign of Scorpio’ (Bailey).
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > particular signs > [noun] > Scorpio > with half of Libra
combust way1509
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xviii. ii Frome the combust way she [Dyane] had her so sped, She had no let that was to be dredde.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Combustion Combustway, by reason of several violent or malignant fixed Stars in the second half of Libra and through the whole Sign of Scorpio.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

combustv.

Brit. /kəmˈbʌst/, U.S. /kəmˈbəst/
Etymology: < combust adj., or its Latin source. First and chiefly used in past participle combusted. past tense in Scots also combust.
a. transitive. To burn up, consume with fire; to calcine. (Now only jocular or affected.)
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)]
burna1000
forburnOE
forswealc1000
swealc1000
to burn upc1175
forswithea1250
to-brenna1300
singea1400
scorchc1475
combust1483
combure1570
toast1577
flame1582
embroil1667
flagrate1756
underburn1841
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 438/2 Fyre descendyd fro heuen upon them and [they] were all combusted and brente.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xxxix. 62 Ne fyre myght haue conbusted or brente her.
?a1547 Ten Recipes Henry VIII in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ix. 224 Putt therto lytherge..and redde corall combusted.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 26v Scho..combust thame in the fyre.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxiii. 323 You don't suppose that I would go spontaneously combusting any person..?
1882 Sutton in Society 7 Oct. 16/1 Wilt thou cook up or combust or incinerate The earth with thy igneous tail?
b. figurative. To consume or waste as fire does. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devour, engulf, or consume (of fire, water, etc.) > misery, God, death, etc. (of a person)
devoura1340
gravea1340
consumec1425
whelm1553
engulf1597
combust1619
1619 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Αρχαιο-πλουτος iii. xi. 251/2 All Germany was combusted with great troubles.
1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood vi. viii. 145 Such as had combusted his State.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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