单词 | cribrate |
释义 | cribrateadj. Natural History. Perforated like a sieve with small holes. ΚΠ 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 430 Thin cribrate parietes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † cribratev. Obsolete. transitive. To sift; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > sift [verb (transitive)] try1382 searcec1400 garble1419 riddle1440 sieve1499 cribble1558 cribe1570 sift1591 succernate1623 cribrate1627 percribrate1652 screen1657 ridder1743 1627 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 308 As Card. Cusanus writ a Book Cribratio Alchorani, I have cribrated, and re-crib[r]ated, and post-crib[r]ated the Sermon. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Kkkk Cribrated flower of white Orobs. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) xiv. §1. 307 It distils in minute drops, as it were cribrated through the thick Air. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1846v.1627 |
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