单词 | embolism |
释义 | embolismn. 1. Chronology. a. The periodical intercalation of a day or days in the calendar to correct the error arising from the difference between the civil and the solar year. concrete. A period of time so intercalated. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > adjustments in calculations embolisma1387 intercalation1577 embolization1677 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 259 Not þe ȝere of þe sonne, noþer of embolisme. 1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery i. iii. iv. 107 To make embolismes and intercalation. a1638 J. Mead Wks. iii. iv. 589 (margin) Count the Embolism of 5 days. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 426 An Embolisme of 30 days or a full Month must needs be made somewhere this year. 1788 W. Marsden in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 417 The year of the Mahometans consists of twelve lunar months..no embolism being employed to adjust it to the solar period. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. at Embolismus 1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. ΚΠ 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. H. vij Ane moneth..addit to yat ȝere..makis ye same..to be callit embolisme. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > reading > interpolated word or passage > action of interpolating interpolation1612 enfarcing1623 embolism1772 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 435 All he has written is a mere embolism or insertion of foreign and absurd matter. 3. a. Pathology. [compare embolus n.] (See quot.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > vascular disorders > [noun] > embolism embolism1870 pneumathaemia1876 rider1885 thromboembolism1895 embolization1949 1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. i. iv. 73 Embolism..a plugging up of an artery with coagulated blood. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. x. 416 Embolism or the occlusion of a vessel..is a somewhat common affection. b. Pathology. An obstruction in a blood vessel; = embolus n. 2 air embolism: see air embolism n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > vascular disorders > [noun] > embolism > an embolism embolus1876 air embolism1877 embolon1878 embolism1902 thromboembolus1927 saddle thrombus1933 saddle embolus1935 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 565/2 The small vessels are sometimes blocked by masses of organisms only, producing minute embolisms. 4. In the liturgies of various rites: a prayer occurring after (with partial repetition of) the Lord's Prayer, and before the Communion; = embolismus n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > canon > [noun] > other parts of fellowship of heavenc1300 embolism1720 epiclesis1868 embolismus1872 1720 T. Brett Coll. Princ. Liturgies xl. 337 What follows the Lord's Prayer has been added since Gregory's Time, and is called by some of the Romanists themselves an Embolism or Interpolation. 1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. (Matt. vi. 13) App. 9 Various embolisms include other ascriptions of praise. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 509/1 The ‘canon’..(except in the Nestorian liturgy) concludes with the Lord's Prayer and ‘embolism’. 1904 G. W. Hart & W. H. Frere Rock's Church Fathers IV. ii. xi. 105 The Lord's Prayer was said as at the end of the Canon, with its bidding before it and its embolism after it. 1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 449/1 Embolism, in the Roman Mass, the name given to the prayer..which begins ‘Libera nos quaesumus, Domine, ab omnibus malis’. .. Many E[astern] liturgies have a similar prayer at this point. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387 |
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