dormantadj.n.

/ˈdɔːmənt/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s -and, Middle English–1600s -ond, -ound.

Etymology: < Old French dormant (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), present participle of dormir < Latin dormīre to sleep.

A. adj.

a. Sleeping, lying asleep or as asleep; hence, figurative intellectually asleep; with the faculties not awake; inactive as in sleep.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > asleep

sleepingc1374

sleeper1530

slumbered1590

dormant1623

dormient1643

reposing1655

dormitory1797

shut-eye1899

flaked (out)1942

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Dormant, sleeping.

1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning Pref. 16 If we have bin too credulous, or too dormant.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §5. i. 100 His prey, for which he lies, as it were, dormant, till it swims within his reach.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 285 That he only lay dormant to meditate some Mischief to me.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 132 Some Romans were lying dormant in the sun.

1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iii. 141 The hitherto dormant members of the Aryan family.

b. Of animals: With animation suspended.

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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > hibernating

latitant1646

dormitive1694

dormant1772

hibernant1836

hibernating1836

1772 J. Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 378 It lies dormant the greater part of the winter.

c. Of plants: With development suspended.

ΚΠ

1863 M. J. Berkeley Handbk. Brit. Mosses ii. 5 In dry weather they [Mosses] are often completely dormant.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 640 The numerous dormant buds of woody plants may long remain buried and yet retain their vitality.

1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Dormant bud, a bud which remains, it may be for years, undeveloped on a plant stem.

d. Heraldry. Represented in a sleeping or recumbent attitude; with the head resting on the paws.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [adjective] > specific positions of heraldic beasts

couchantc1500

dormantc1500

sejantc1500

lodged1580

genuant1688

sedant1688

statant1688

urinant1688

springant1708

posé1725

saltant1850

c1500 Sc. Poem Heraldry (Harl. 6149) 130 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 98 xv maneris of lionys in armys,..the viij dormand.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. x. 248 Yet were it not probably a Lyon Rampant..but rather couchant or dormant .

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 82 At his foot a cupid dormant.

1851 R. R. Madden Shrines & Sepulchres II. 37 I would rather call the ancient figures dormant.

a. In a state of rest or inactivity; quiescent; not in motion, action, or operation; ‘slumbering’, in abeyance.

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the world > action or operation > inaction > [adjective] > temporarily

dormant1601

dormient1643

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 597 This riuer runneth but slowly, and seemeth a dead or dormant water.

1639 Earl of Barrymore in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. IV. 39 Your lordshipps directions..must lye dormant by me.

1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 161 What if there be an old dormant Statute or two against him, are they not now obsolete, to a degree.

1731 J. Swift On Pulteney in J. Swift et al. Misc. IV. i. 166 Thy dormant ducal patent.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. vi. 257 It is possible for original talents to lie dormant.

1793 N. Chipman Rep. & Diss. i. 38 Plaintiffs, who have since..revived a dormant claim.

1803 Gazetteer Scotl. Newark,..formerly gave title of Baron to the family of Leslie, now dormant.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 203 Many volcanoes..are merely dormant.

b. dormant commission, dormant credit, dormant warrant, dormant writing, etc., one drawn out in blank to be filled up with a name or particulars, when required to be used; dormant partner, a ‘sleeping’ partner, who takes no part in the working of a concern.

ΚΠ

1551 Househ. Acc. Eliz. in Camden Misc. 34 Paid..unto James Russell, by warrante dormaunte..xx. s.

c1614 C. Cornwallis in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 148 The warrant dormant, which all Leiger Ambassadors have, to propound and discourse of all things, which they think may tend to the encreasing of amity.

1662 A. Marvell Let. 1 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 249 That you would send us up a dormant credit for an hundred pound.

1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) (Camden) 101 For charge of passing a dormant privy seale, 12^li 8^s, and of dormant l'res patents, 30^li 2^s 2^d.

1714 J. Swift Some Free Thoughts upon Present State Affairs (1741) 31 A Power was given of chusing dormant Viceroys.

1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 36 He likewise signed a dormant Commission for another to be his High-Admiral.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Dormant Dormant partner, in commerce and manufactories, a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership... He is called also sleeping partner.

1842 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. ii. v. 152 Partners thus unknown to the public, are said to be dormant.

Categories »

c. Mechanics. dormant-bolt, ‘a concealed bolt working in a mortise in a door, and usually operated by a key; sometimes by turning a knob’; dormant-lock, ‘a lock having a bolt that will not close of itself’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).

a. Fixed, stationary. dormant tree = B. 1.

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the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining in one place

stablea1400

dormantc1440

standing1469

remanent?a1475

ledger1547

fixed1559

restiff1578

statary1581

permanent1588

consistent1604

stationary1631

fundamental1633

resident1653

sedentary1667

statual1752

loco-restive1796

untransmigrated1821

stabile1896

static1910

sessile1917

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 127/2 Dormawnte tre..trabes.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 128 Dormant tree. In Architecture is a great Beam lying cross a House, otherwise call'd a Summer.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §238 The dormant wedge or that with the point upward, being held in the hand, while the drift wedge or that with its point downward, was driven with a hammer.

1798 Term Rep. VII. 599 To the sleepers or dormant timbers they affixed railways or waggon ways.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 966 Dormant Tree or Summer, the lintel of a door.

b. dormant table n. archaic a table fixed to the floor, or forming a fixed piece of furniture.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > other tables

dormant tablec1405

set board1512

chair-table1558

oyster table1559

brushing-table1575

stand board1580

table-chair1671

reading table1749

worktable1762

centre table1775

pier table1778

loo-table1789

screen table1793

social table1793

octoped1822

claw-table1832

bench table1838

mould1842

end table1851

pedestal table1858

picnic table1866

examining table1877

silver table1897

changing table1917

rent table1919

capstan table1927

conference table1928

tricoteuse1960

Parsons1962

overflow table1973

butcher's block1976

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 355 Hys table dormaunt in his halle alway Stood redy couered al the longe day.

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xi Eke in the hall..On eche partye was a dormaunt table.

1448 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 108 De ij mensis vocatis dormoundes.]

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. v. sig. M4 Were not the Pounds told out..vpon the table dormant .

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xxviii. 428 Whatever is strongly affixed to the freehold or inheritance..as marble chimney-pieces, pumps, old fixed or dormant tables, benches, and the like.

1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. ii. 54.

figurative.1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B3 She had a dormant Table in her owne privy-brest.

†4. Causing or producing sleep. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > causing or inducing sleep

sleepingc1369

sleepy1398

lullingc1440

somnolentc1475

sleepery1513

sleeprife1513

narcotic1526

opiate1543

breed-sleep1582

somnoriferous1583

drowsy1590

dormitive1593

soporiferous1601

somniferous1602

sleep-bringing1605

dormitary1609

hypnotic1625

dormitory1631

papaverous1646

dormant1654

hypnotical1657

somnifyinga1661

sleepifying1662

slumberous1667

soporific1690

somnific1721

somniculous1820

somnorific1865

soporous1866

drowsing1881

narcoleptic1984

1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 66 The effects of Dormant and Narcotique remedies.

5. dormant window n. also dormant = dormer n. 2.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > dormer window

storm-winnock15..

dormer1592

dormant window1651

luthern1669

storm window1824

storm-head window1833

wall-dormer1886

1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 2 Old dormant windows must confesse, Her beams.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dormer, or Dormant, in Architecture, is a Window made in the Roof of an House.

1804 Ann. Reg. 829 A dormant must break out in the roof.

1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. x. 136 The dormant windows in the roof.

B. n.

†1.

a. A fixed horizontal beam; a sleeper; a summer. More fully dormant tree at sense A. 3a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > members of

pan1284

balka1300

lacec1330

pautre1360

dorman1374

rib1378

montant1438

dormant?1454

transom1487

ground-pillar?a1500

barge-couple1562

spar foot1579

frankpost1587

tracing1601

sleeper1607

bressumer1611

master-beam1611

muntin1611

discharge1620

dormer1623

mounting post1629

tassel1632

baufrey1640

pier1663

storey post1663

breastplate?1667

mudsill1685

template1700

brow-post1706

brow-stone1761

runner1772

stretching beam1776

pole plate1787

sabliere1800

frame stud1803

bent1815

mounting1819

bond-timber1823

storey rod1823

wall-hold1833

wall-strap1833

truss-block1883

sleeper-beam1937

shell1952

?1454 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 253 Ser Thomas Howes hath purveyd iiij dormantys for the drawte chamer and the malthouse and þe browern.

1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 46 In the hay barne..Certaine sawen baulkes, viz., ix dormonds and j sile 10^s.

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xii. i. 233 Summers (or dormants).

1665 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 201 2 clasps of iron for fastning the great dormond in the church, 6 s.

†b. The part between the opening and the top of a doorway; the tympanum. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door-frame > upper part of

door-head1679

dormant1723

1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 102 Coach-Gates..have a Dormant (i.e. the upper part of the Gate that does not open), which Dormant, where the Gate is arch'd, commences from the Spring of the Arch.

2. = dormer n. window: see A. 5.

3. A dish which remains on the table throughout a repast; a centre-piece which is not removed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish > centre dish

pièce montée1820

dormant1845

1845 J. Bregion & A. Miller Pract. Cook 25 A centre ornament, whether it be a dormant, a plateau..or a candelabra.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dormant
释义	dormantadj.n. /ˈdɔːmənt/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s -and, Middle English–1600s -ond, -ound. Etymology: < Old French dormant (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), present participle of dormir < Latin dormīre to sleep. A. adj. 1. a. Sleeping, lying asleep or as asleep; hence, figurative intellectually asleep; with the faculties not awake; inactive as in sleep. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > asleep sleepingc1374 sleeper1530 slumbered1590 dormant1623 dormient1643 reposing1655 dormitory1797 shut-eye1899 flaked (out)1942 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Dormant, sleeping. 1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning Pref. 16 If we have bin too credulous, or too dormant. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §5. i. 100 His prey, for which he lies, as it were, dormant, till it swims within his reach. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 285 That he only lay dormant to meditate some Mischief to me. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 132 Some Romans were lying dormant in the sun. 1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iii. 141 The hitherto dormant members of the Aryan family. b. Of animals: With animation suspended. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > hibernating latitant1646 dormitive1694 dormant1772 hibernant1836 hibernating1836 1772 J. Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 378 It lies dormant the greater part of the winter. c. Of plants: With development suspended. ΚΠ 1863 M. J. Berkeley Handbk. Brit. Mosses ii. 5 In dry weather they [Mosses] are often completely dormant. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 640 The numerous dormant buds of woody plants may long remain buried and yet retain their vitality. 1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Dormant bud, a bud which remains, it may be for years, undeveloped on a plant stem. d. Heraldry. Represented in a sleeping or recumbent attitude; with the head resting on the paws. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [adjective] > specific positions of heraldic beasts couchantc1500 dormantc1500 sejantc1500 lodged1580 genuant1688 sedant1688 statant1688 urinant1688 springant1708 posé1725 saltant1850 c1500 Sc. Poem Heraldry (Harl. 6149) 130 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 98 xv maneris of lionys in armys,..the viij dormand. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. x. 248 Yet were it not probably a Lyon Rampant..but rather couchant or dormant . View more context for this quotation 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 82 At his foot a cupid dormant. 1851 R. R. Madden Shrines & Sepulchres II. 37 I would rather call the ancient figures dormant. 2. a. In a state of rest or inactivity; quiescent; not in motion, action, or operation; ‘slumbering’, in abeyance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > [adjective] > temporarily dormant1601 dormient1643 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 597 This riuer runneth but slowly, and seemeth a dead or dormant water. 1639 Earl of Barrymore in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. IV. 39 Your lordshipps directions..must lye dormant by me. 1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 161 What if there be an old dormant Statute or two against him, are they not now obsolete, to a degree. 1731 J. Swift On Pulteney in J. Swift et al. Misc. IV. i. 166 Thy dormant ducal patent. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. vi. 257 It is possible for original talents to lie dormant. 1793 N. Chipman Rep. & Diss. i. 38 Plaintiffs, who have since..revived a dormant claim. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. Newark,..formerly gave title of Baron to the family of Leslie, now dormant. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 203 Many volcanoes..are merely dormant. b. dormant commission, dormant credit, dormant warrant, dormant writing, etc., one drawn out in blank to be filled up with a name or particulars, when required to be used; dormant partner, a ‘sleeping’ partner, who takes no part in the working of a concern. ΚΠ 1551 Househ. Acc. Eliz. in Camden Misc. 34 Paid..unto James Russell, by warrante dormaunte..xx. s. c1614 C. Cornwallis in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 148 The warrant dormant, which all Leiger Ambassadors have, to propound and discourse of all things, which they think may tend to the encreasing of amity. 1662 A. Marvell Let. 1 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 249 That you would send us up a dormant credit for an hundred pound. 1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) (Camden) 101 For charge of passing a dormant privy seale, 12^li 8^s, and of dormant l'res patents, 30^li 2^s 2^d. 1714 J. Swift Some Free Thoughts upon Present State Affairs (1741) 31 A Power was given of chusing dormant Viceroys. 1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 36 He likewise signed a dormant Commission for another to be his High-Admiral. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Dormant Dormant partner, in commerce and manufactories, a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership... He is called also sleeping partner. 1842 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. ii. v. 152 Partners thus unknown to the public, are said to be dormant. Categories » c. Mechanics. dormant-bolt, ‘a concealed bolt working in a mortise in a door, and usually operated by a key; sometimes by turning a knob’; dormant-lock, ‘a lock having a bolt that will not close of itself’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.). 3. a. Fixed, stationary. dormant tree = B. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining in one place stablea1400 dormantc1440 standing1469 remanent?a1475 ledger1547 fixed1559 restiff1578 statary1581 permanent1588 consistent1604 stationary1631 fundamental1633 resident1653 sedentary1667 statual1752 loco-restive1796 untransmigrated1821 stabile1896 static1910 sessile1917 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 127/2 Dormawnte tre..trabes. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 128 Dormant tree. In Architecture is a great Beam lying cross a House, otherwise call'd a Summer. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §238 The dormant wedge or that with the point upward, being held in the hand, while the drift wedge or that with its point downward, was driven with a hammer. 1798 Term Rep. VII. 599 To the sleepers or dormant timbers they affixed railways or waggon ways. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 966 Dormant Tree or Summer, the lintel of a door. b. dormant table n. archaic a table fixed to the floor, or forming a fixed piece of furniture. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > other tables dormant tablec1405 set board1512 chair-table1558 oyster table1559 brushing-table1575 stand board1580 table-chair1671 reading table1749 worktable1762 centre table1775 pier table1778 loo-table1789 screen table1793 social table1793 octoped1822 claw-table1832 bench table1838 mould1842 end table1851 pedestal table1858 picnic table1866 examining table1877 silver table1897 changing table1917 rent table1919 capstan table1927 conference table1928 tricoteuse1960 Parsons1962 overflow table1973 butcher's block1976 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 355 Hys table dormaunt in his halle alway Stood redy couered al the longe day. 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xi Eke in the hall..On eche partye was a dormaunt table. 1448 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 108 De ij mensis vocatis dormoundes.] 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. v. sig. M4 Were not the Pounds told out..vpon the table dormant . View more context for this quotation 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xxviii. 428 Whatever is strongly affixed to the freehold or inheritance..as marble chimney-pieces, pumps, old fixed or dormant tables, benches, and the like. 1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. ii. 54. figurative.1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B3 She had a dormant Table in her owne privy-brest. †4. Causing or producing sleep. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > causing or inducing sleep sleepingc1369 sleepy1398 lullingc1440 somnolentc1475 sleepery1513 sleeprife1513 narcotic1526 opiate1543 breed-sleep1582 somnoriferous1583 drowsy1590 dormitive1593 soporiferous1601 somniferous1602 sleep-bringing1605 dormitary1609 hypnotic1625 dormitory1631 papaverous1646 dormant1654 hypnotical1657 somnifyinga1661 sleepifying1662 slumberous1667 soporific1690 somnific1721 somniculous1820 somnorific1865 soporous1866 drowsing1881 narcoleptic1984 1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 66 The effects of Dormant and Narcotique remedies. 5. dormant window n. also dormant = dormer n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > dormer window storm-winnock15.. dormer1592 dormant window1651 luthern1669 storm window1824 storm-head window1833 wall-dormer1886 1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 2 Old dormant windows must confesse, Her beams. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dormer, or Dormant, in Architecture, is a Window made in the Roof of an House. 1804 Ann. Reg. 829 A dormant must break out in the roof. 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. x. 136 The dormant windows in the roof. B. n. †1. a. A fixed horizontal beam; a sleeper; a summer. More fully dormant tree at sense A. 3a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > members of pan1284 balka1300 lacec1330 pautre1360 dorman1374 rib1378 montant1438 dormant?1454 transom1487 ground-pillar?a1500 barge-couple1562 spar foot1579 frankpost1587 tracing1601 sleeper1607 bressumer1611 master-beam1611 muntin1611 discharge1620 dormer1623 mounting post1629 tassel1632 baufrey1640 pier1663 storey post1663 breastplate?1667 mudsill1685 template1700 brow-post1706 brow-stone1761 runner1772 stretching beam1776 pole plate1787 sabliere1800 frame stud1803 bent1815 mounting1819 bond-timber1823 storey rod1823 wall-hold1833 wall-strap1833 truss-block1883 sleeper-beam1937 shell1952 ?1454 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 253 Ser Thomas Howes hath purveyd iiij dormantys for the drawte chamer and the malthouse and þe browern. 1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 46 In the hay barne..Certaine sawen baulkes, viz., ix dormonds and j sile 10^s. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xii. i. 233 Summers (or dormants). 1665 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 201 2 clasps of iron for fastning the great dormond in the church, 6 s. †b. The part between the opening and the top of a doorway; the tympanum. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door-frame > upper part of door-head1679 dormant1723 1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 102 Coach-Gates..have a Dormant (i.e. the upper part of the Gate that does not open), which Dormant, where the Gate is arch'd, commences from the Spring of the Arch. 2. = dormer n. window: see A. 5. 3. A dish which remains on the table throughout a repast; a centre-piece which is not removed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish > centre dish pièce montée1820 dormant1845 1845 J. Bregion & A. Miller Pract. Cook 25 A centre ornament, whether it be a dormant, a plateau..or a candelabra. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.c1405
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