deliquiumn.¹

Brit.

/dᵻˈlɪkwɪəm/, U.S.

/dəˈlɪkwiəm/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin deliquium.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin deliquium melting (4th cent.) < classical Latin dēliquāre (see deliquate v.) + -ium (see -y suffix⁴). Compare later deliquium n.², which influenced the later semantic development of this word, and also per deliquium adv.Compare Catalan deliqui (16th cent.), Spanish deliquio (a1622), Italian deliquio (a1617).

Now rare.

†1. Chemistry. The spontaneous liquefying of a salt or other solid by dissolving in moisture absorbed from the air; deliquescence. Also: the liquid state or substance so produced. Cf. deliquescence n. 1. Obsolete.See also per deliquium adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > deliquescence

deliquation1617

deliquium1617

deliquescency1679

deliquescence1743

deliquiation1749

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 341 Deliquium is the liquation of a concrete (as salt, powder calcined, &c. set in an humid and frigid place.

1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 9 Deliquium, is the dissolving of a hard body into a liquor, as salt..in a moist, cold place.

1742 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 76 It is exposed in a flat Vessel to the Moisture of the Cellar, whence a Deliquium is formed, which we call Oil of Lime.

1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades ii. 14 It [sc. the saltpetre] will fall into deliquium, which you will pour into a cucurbit.

1848 A. Normandy tr. H. Rose Pract. Treat. Chem. Anal. iii. 64 The crystal then falls into deliquium, undergoing what is called the watery fusion.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts. The process of dwindling, disappearing, or wasting away; the state or condition of being weakened or reduced in power or function.Sometimes influenced by or merging into deliquium n.² 1.

ΚΠ

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 407 Death is a preparing Deliquium, or melting us down into a Menstruum, fit for the Chymistry of the Resurrection to work on.

a1711 T. Ken Psyche iv, in Wks. (1721) IV. 281 Her Pow'rs in Liquefaction soft exhal'd, She into amorous Deliquium falls.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. viii. 379 The Assembly melts, under such pressure, into deliquium; or, as it is officially called, adjourns.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. v. 440 Stalwart sentries were found melted into actual deliquium of swooning.

1937 W. Lewis in A. Gąsiorek & N. Waddell W. Lewis (2015) x. 150 An intelligent man picks up a newspaper..endeavouring, perhaps, to discover..what motive the words conceal:..what facts it has been intended to reduce to a deliquium.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

deliquiumn.²

Brit.

/dᵻˈlɪkwɪəm/, U.S.

/dəˈlɪkwiəm/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin dēliquium.

Etymology: < classical Latin dēliquium eclipse, in post-classical Latin also fault, offence (5th cent. in Augustine), fainting fit (a1536) < dēliqu- , perfect stem of dēlinquere delinque v. + -ium (see -y suffix⁴). Compare delique n. Compare also ad deliquium adv. and the etymological note at that entry.Compare the following earlier example of the Latin phrase deliquium animae in English context:1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxviii. 376 His soule forsooke him, as it were, and there was deliquium animæ.

Now rare (archaic in later use).

1. A loss of consciousness; a faint, a swoon; (also) fainting, faintness. Also: a loss or failure of the mind or mental faculties (chiefly in hyperbolic use). Also figurative. Cf. ad deliquium adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning > a faint or swoon

swimeOE

swooningc1290

swowa1325

swooningc1330

swoon1390

soundc1400

trancec1405

sweamc1415

swoundc1440

sweltingc1460

swarf1488

dwalm?a1513

sounding ecstasy?1565

sounding1580

pasme1591

death1596

lipothymy1603

deliquium1620

delique1645

fainting fit1714

drow1727

faint-fit1795

faint1808

blacking out1930

blackout1934

greyout1942

pass-out1946

1620 T. Walkington Rabboni 16 She is grown Extaticall, intranced, in a deliquium, a swound, ready to fall, ready to dye.

1667 J. Glanvill Philos. Considerations Witches 15 Strange things men report to have seen during those deliquiums.

1746 Brit. Mag. 102 He..was seiz'd with a sudden Deliquium.

1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 10 Jeffrey..bewildered the poor jury into temporary deliquium or loss of wits.

1900 Courier & Argus (Dundee) 8 Nov. 7/3 Allowing the doctrine of the Church to pass into deliquium.

1924 Mod. Lang. Rev. 19 10 Was woman, through all this effusion of emotion and unlimited liberty of deliquium, frailer or more affected then?

2010 Amer. Spectator (Nexis) 22 Sept. The latest milestone in Britain's government-sponsored deliquium is a service at St. Paul's Cathedral to celebrate the life of Alexander McQueen.

†2. A failure or loss of light, in or as though in an eclipse of the sun. Chiefly figurative or in figurative contexts. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > [noun]

obscurity1578

eclipse1598

ingloriousnessa1631

deliquium1648

shade1650

incelebrity1813

notelessness1830

obscureness1873

Palookaville?1954

the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > eclipse

eclipsec1374

clipse1377

obscurationa1550

defect1571

superation1585

travail1593

occultation1601

deliquium1648

immersion1690

incidence1728

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > making or becoming dark > cessation or failure of light

eclipse1526

deliquium1648

1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 51 Forcing his sometimes Ecclips'd face to bee A long Deliquium to the light of thee.

1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 5 The strange deliquium of Light in the Sun about the death of Cæsar.

1671 T. Shadwell Humorists iii. 33 I have suffer'd a Deliquium, viz. an Eclipse.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	deliquium
释义	deliquiumn.¹ Brit. /dᵻˈlɪkwɪəm/, U.S. /dəˈlɪkwiəm/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin deliquium. Etymology: < post-classical Latin deliquium melting (4th cent.) < classical Latin dēliquāre (see deliquate v.) + -ium (see -y suffix⁴). Compare later deliquium n.², which influenced the later semantic development of this word, and also per deliquium adv.Compare Catalan deliqui (16th cent.), Spanish deliquio (a1622), Italian deliquio (a1617). Now rare. †1. Chemistry. The spontaneous liquefying of a salt or other solid by dissolving in moisture absorbed from the air; deliquescence. Also: the liquid state or substance so produced. Cf. deliquescence n. 1. Obsolete.See also per deliquium adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > deliquescence deliquation1617 deliquium1617 deliquescency1679 deliquescence1743 deliquiation1749 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 341 Deliquium is the liquation of a concrete (as salt, powder calcined, &c. set in an humid and frigid place. 1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 9 Deliquium, is the dissolving of a hard body into a liquor, as salt..in a moist, cold place. 1742 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 76 It is exposed in a flat Vessel to the Moisture of the Cellar, whence a Deliquium is formed, which we call Oil of Lime. 1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades ii. 14 It [sc. the saltpetre] will fall into deliquium, which you will pour into a cucurbit. 1848 A. Normandy tr. H. Rose Pract. Treat. Chem. Anal. iii. 64 The crystal then falls into deliquium, undergoing what is called the watery fusion. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. The process of dwindling, disappearing, or wasting away; the state or condition of being weakened or reduced in power or function.Sometimes influenced by or merging into deliquium n.² 1. ΚΠ 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 407 Death is a preparing Deliquium, or melting us down into a Menstruum, fit for the Chymistry of the Resurrection to work on. a1711 T. Ken Psyche iv, in Wks. (1721) IV. 281 Her Pow'rs in Liquefaction soft exhal'd, She into amorous Deliquium falls. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. viii. 379 The Assembly melts, under such pressure, into deliquium; or, as it is officially called, adjourns. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. v. 440 Stalwart sentries were found melted into actual deliquium of swooning. 1937 W. Lewis in A. Gąsiorek & N. Waddell W. Lewis (2015) x. 150 An intelligent man picks up a newspaper..endeavouring, perhaps, to discover..what motive the words conceal:..what facts it has been intended to reduce to a deliquium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). deliquiumn.² Brit. /dᵻˈlɪkwɪəm/, U.S. /dəˈlɪkwiəm/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin dēliquium. Etymology: < classical Latin dēliquium eclipse, in post-classical Latin also fault, offence (5th cent. in Augustine), fainting fit (a1536) < dēliqu- , perfect stem of dēlinquere delinque v. + -ium (see -y suffix⁴). Compare delique n. Compare also ad deliquium adv. and the etymological note at that entry.Compare the following earlier example of the Latin phrase deliquium animae in English context:1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxviii. 376 His soule forsooke him, as it were, and there was deliquium animæ. Now rare (archaic in later use). 1. A loss of consciousness; a faint, a swoon; (also) fainting, faintness. Also: a loss or failure of the mind or mental faculties (chiefly in hyperbolic use). Also figurative. Cf. ad deliquium adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning > a faint or swoon swimeOE swooningc1290 swowa1325 swooningc1330 swoon1390 soundc1400 trancec1405 sweamc1415 swoundc1440 sweltingc1460 swarf1488 dwalm?a1513 sounding ecstasy?1565 sounding1580 pasme1591 death1596 lipothymy1603 deliquium1620 delique1645 fainting fit1714 drow1727 faint-fit1795 faint1808 blacking out1930 blackout1934 greyout1942 pass-out1946 1620 T. Walkington Rabboni 16 She is grown Extaticall, intranced, in a deliquium, a swound, ready to fall, ready to dye. 1667 J. Glanvill Philos. Considerations Witches 15 Strange things men report to have seen during those deliquiums. 1746 Brit. Mag. 102 He..was seiz'd with a sudden Deliquium. 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 10 Jeffrey..bewildered the poor jury into temporary deliquium or loss of wits. 1900 Courier & Argus (Dundee) 8 Nov. 7/3 Allowing the doctrine of the Church to pass into deliquium. 1924 Mod. Lang. Rev. 19 10 Was woman, through all this effusion of emotion and unlimited liberty of deliquium, frailer or more affected then? 2010 Amer. Spectator (Nexis) 22 Sept. The latest milestone in Britain's government-sponsored deliquium is a service at St. Paul's Cathedral to celebrate the life of Alexander McQueen. †2. A failure or loss of light, in or as though in an eclipse of the sun. Chiefly figurative or in figurative contexts. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > [noun] obscurity1578 eclipse1598 ingloriousnessa1631 deliquium1648 shade1650 incelebrity1813 notelessness1830 obscureness1873 Palookaville?1954 the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > eclipse eclipsec1374 clipse1377 obscurationa1550 defect1571 superation1585 travail1593 occultation1601 deliquium1648 immersion1690 incidence1728 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > making or becoming dark > cessation or failure of light eclipse1526 deliquium1648 1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 51 Forcing his sometimes Ecclips'd face to bee A long Deliquium to the light of thee. 1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 5 The strange deliquium of Light in the Sun about the death of Cæsar. 1671 T. Shadwell Humorists iii. 33 I have suffer'd a Deliquium, viz. an Eclipse. 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