单词 | despumate |
释义 | despumateadj.ΚΠ 1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Despumate, freed from froth and impurities; clarified; purified. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019). despumatev. 1. transitive. To skim; to free (a liquid) of the scum, froth, or other impure part; to clarify by removing the scum. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > removal of scum > remove scum from [verb (transitive)] despumec1400 scumc1400 skimc1430 fleetc1440 flote1573 despumate1651 1651 J. French Art Distillation iv. 95 Take of Honey well despumated as much as you please. 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 34 The Honey is order'd to be clarify'd or despumated. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 112 Used among the French to despumate and granulate their sugars. 1758 J. Walker in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 128 When it was despumated, a new cremor always succeeded. 2. intransitive (for reflexive). To throw off its froth or scum; to become clarified by this process. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [verb (intransitive)] > become clear clarify1599 despume1609 despumate1733 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. iv. 304 That Discharge..will help it the sooner and faster to dispumate and purify. 1883 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 3. transitive. To throw off as froth. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > in or like foam foam1388 despumate1733 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. iv. 360 [They] were thrown off, and despumated upon the larger Emunctory and open Glands. Derivatives despumated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [adjective] > skimmed or clarified despumed1601 despumated1661 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 83 The sanies of it rosted, with despumated Honey, helps the Glaucoma. 1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Despumated honey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1883v.1651 |
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