单词 | combust |
释义 | combustadj. a. Burnt; spec. acted on by fire, calcined. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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.’ ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. a. transitive. To burn up, consume with fire; to calcine. (Now only jocular or affected.) ΘΚΠ 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? 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. 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