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单词 distent
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distentn.

Etymology: < Latin distentus (u- stem) a stretching out, distending, < participial stem of distendĕre to distend v.
Obsolete.
Stretching out; out-stretched extent; distension; breadth.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [noun]
lenghc888
longnessOE
length1154
dimension1413
sideness1422
longitude?a1425
prolixity?a1425
distance1582
longity1604
distent1613
protension1704
sidth1831
1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 34 The wide distent of these tumors, fed from many secret veines.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. x. §4. 114 The fronts of the two Armies were so vnequall in distent.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 32 [To] be distended one fourteenth part..which addition of distent will confer much to their Beauty.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. i. iv. 6 Poland is of very vast distent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

distentadj.

/dɪˈstɛnt/
Etymology: < Latin distentus, past participle of distendĕre . Commonly used as a past participle, = distended adj., on the analogy of such contracted past participles as sent, spent.
1. Stretched out at full length or breadth; extended. Obsolete.
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the world > space > extension in space > [adjective]
stent1513
stretchinga1547
distent1590
stretched?1605
distending1633
stretchen1642
extending1812
outreaching1853
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. sig. S2 Great heapes of gold, that neuer could be spent: Of which some were rude owre,..Others were new driuen, and distent Into great Ingowes, and to wedges square.
1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) ii. 296 Thus murmur'd Earth's first-born..Distent upon the ground.
2. Expanded by stretching; swollen out.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > distended
tautc1330
distent?1606
outstretcheda1616
distended1697
stent1789
stodgy1860
bestented-
?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H5 The bright Latona (and her womb distent) With the great burden that by Ioue she bare.
1728 J. Thomson Spring 10 The big Clouds with vernal Showers distent.
1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 360 Nostrils..now distent, now contracted.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

distentv.

Etymology: < Latin distent- participial stem of distendĕre.
Obsolete.
= distend v. (Perhaps only in past participle distended = distent adj.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > expand or enlarge [verb (transitive)] > distend
to-halea1387
distent1578
distend1650
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 71v [The intrels]..distented, or retched out by the thynges conteined.
c1720 Collect. Misc. Lett. fr. Miot's Jrnl. (1722) II. 19 Bee's distented Thigh.
1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory i. iii. 64 The Blood-vessels of the Brain being..filled and distented.
1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. ii. 255.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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