单词 | decursion |
释义 | † decursionn. Obsolete. 1. The action of running, flowing, or passing downwards; also figurative of time, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time process1357 concoursec1400 coursec1460 successionc1485 passing-by1523 by-passing1526 slacka1533 continuancea1552 race1565 prolapse1585 current1587 decurse1593 passage1596 drifting1610 flux1612 effluxion1621 transcursion1622 decursion1629 devolution1629 progression1646 efflux1647 preterition1647 processus1648 decurrence1659 progress1664 fluxation1710 elapsing1720 currency1726 lapse1758 elapse1793 time-lapse1864 wearing1876 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] > flowing down downfall1578 decursion1629 decurrency1651 1629 T. Jackson Treat. Divine Essence ii. 80 The perpetuall ascent of springing waters into the hills, their continuall decursion from them into the Sea. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 206 In the decursion of..twelve or thirteen hundred years. 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 24 The whole decursion and succession of the church to the end of the world. 2. Historical. A military manœuvre, exercise or evolution, performed under arms; a solemn procession round a funeral pile. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] > other manoeuvres limaçon1581 extraduction1635 decursiona1657 feint1683 debouchment1827 pincer1917 leap-frog1918 pincer movement1918 link-up1945 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Decursion, a running of souldiers on their enemies.] a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 68 His body..was laid on the Rogus, or Pile..and honored with the περιδρομή, decursion, or running round it by his Sons and Souldiers. 1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iv. vi. 230 In this Decursion the Motion was towards the Left-hand. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 441 Charged..with many Ancient Customs, as sacrifices..allocutions, decursions, lectisterniums. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1629 |
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