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单词 eversion
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eversionn.

Brit. /ᵻˈvəːʃn/, U.S. /əˈvərʒən/, /iˈvərʒən/
Forms:

α. late Middle English euersione, late Middle English euersioun, late Middle English–1600s euersion, 1500s– eversion; also Scottish pre-1700 euersione, pre-1700 euersioun, pre-1700 eversione, pre-1700 eversioun.

β. late Middle English euercion, late Middle English evercion; also Scottish pre-1700 euertione, pre-1700 evertioun.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French eversion; Latin ēversiōn-, ēversiō.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French eversion (French éversion ; now chiefly literary) overthrow, destruction (14th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin ēversiōn-, ēversiō action of overturning or upsetting, expulsion, destruction, in post-classical Latin also (in rhetoric) epanodos (1619 or earlier), action of turning something outwards (early 18th cent. or earlier in anatomy) < ēvers- , past participial stem of ēvertere evert v. + -iō -ion suffix1.Compare Spanish eversión (early 15th cent.), Italian eversione (14th cent.). The β. forms show suffix substitution; compare -tion suffix.
1.
a. The action of overthrowing something; the condition of being overthrown; an overthrow, overturning. Chiefly figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > overthrow of a person, institution, belief, etc.
fallOE
confusionc1290
subversiona1325
overthrowingc1330
overturninga1398
downcasta1400
wrackc1400
downcastingc1425
eversionc1425
profligationc1475
demolitionc1550
overturec1555
wreck1577
overturnc1592
racking?1689
upsetting1827
subversal1843
demolishment1884
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 3556 (MED) Of kyngdammys sodeyn euersioun.
c1475 ( J. Hardyng Chron. (Harl.) (1812) 33 Iason at Troie first evercion Caste doun Ilion.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ii. xv. f. 20/1 Yis nobil realme..wes neir brocht to finall euersione.
1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. B4 The euersion and the ouerthrow of the Gospel.
1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket vi. 292 Their euersion is our conuersion.
1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie i. i. 15 The restauration of the English Church and eversion of Popery.
1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World i. xxxiv. §16. 55/2 I will take from Pollio all future occasion of falling into such precipitant eversion of the mind.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation lvii. 625 Disorderly preaching..tending to the eversion of good laws and orders ecclesiastical.
1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. i. 13 Scenes subsequent to the eversion of Troy.
1820 S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons (ed. 3) I. ii. App. 545 The fate of the column of the image after its eversion.
b. = epanodos n. at epana- prefix . Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition > of words in inverse order
antimetabole1589
epanodos1589
eversion1678
antistrophe1728
antimetathesis-
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words Eversion..in Rhetorick is the same figure, according to Ruffianus, with Epanodus.
2.
a. Biology and Medicine. The action of everting or turning outwards or inside out; the action of turning something outwards or inside out; an instance of this. Also: the condition of being turned outwards or inside out.Frequently with reference to the eyelids (cf. ectropion n.) or (later) the side of the foot.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > other deformities
eversion1567
exenteration1831
ankyloglossia1848
baker's knee1871
mal-insertion1904
malrotation1932
hole in (the) heart1958
1567 T. Gale tr. Galen Θεραπευτικον: Methodus Medendi v. vi. in Certaine Wks. 261 There is a double Euersion of the Fluxe of bloud at the Nose.
1606 J. Fage Speculum Ægrotorum sig. F3 The pulses are slowe and thick, with euersion of the ventricle.
1678 J. Browne Compl. Disc. Wounds xxviii. 155 A division in the Cranium with eversion or elation of the offended Bone.
1732 T. Dale tr. J. Lommius Medicinal Observ. ii, in tr. J. Lommius Treat. Continual Fevers 243 It the Tumour subside, but the Tears flow copiously for a long Time, the Men are threatned with an Eversion of the Eye-lids.
1793 J. Pearson Pract. Observ. Cancerous Complaints 121 There was no eversion, nor remarkable dilatation of the os uteri.
1840 F. Tyrrell Pract. Work Dis. Eye I. 134 It was smeared upon the diseased membrane by means of a camel's hair brush, the part being exposed by eversion of the eyelid.
1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals v. 121 Dogs, in their expressions of fondness, have a slight eversion of the lips.
1892 Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gaz. 4 Aug. Wood sorrel scatters the seeds by rupture and eversion of the valves of the seed pods, which turn inside out.
1912 A. H. Tubby Deformities (ed. 2) I. iii. xiii. 670 In inversion the sole [of the foot] looks somewhat inward, and in eversion outward.
1940 R. J. Dinsmore ‘Hoss’ Doctor iv. 139 The farmer's cow had what looked to him like an eversion of the uterus.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Jan. c1 It [sc. the Crown of Thorns starfish] coughs up its stomach, smothers its meal in digestive juices, and slurps up the mixture. It performs this gastronomic feat, called stomach eversion, on the tiny animal polyps of hard coral.
2010 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 277 1310/1 Penile eversions of 56 muscovy ducks were filmed with a high-speed video camera.
b. gen. The action of turning something outwards; opposed to inversion. Also: an act of turning something inside out. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > direction > specific directions > [noun] > turning outwards
eversion1632
extroversion1656
turning out1711
1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xv. 202 The Euersion of the Tayle of the Lion is an expresse token of his placabilitie or tractablenesse.
1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. vii. 467 They [sc. these books and papers] were essentially an eversion, a generalization, an attempt to put my case in the character of Everyman.
1975 Sci. Fiction Stud. 2 77 Throughout the novel things are turned inside out. The dominant eversions are those of time, the planet Earth, and sexual gender.
c. Mathematics. The process of turning a geometric figure (esp. a sphere) inside out by means of continuous deformation; (also) any of several methods of doing this.
ΚΠ
1965 C. Truesdell & W. Noll Non-linear Field Theories Mechanics 197 Experiments on the eversion of a tube are harder to interpret because the theoretical formulae are not fully explicit.
1989 Sci. News 13 May 299/1 Mathematician Bernard Morin..has found the simplest possible route for a sphere eversion.
1999 Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 46 654/1 In the case of eversion, the goal was to illuminate a process so complex that very few people, even experts, could picture the full details mentally.
2011 W. L. Hosch Britannica Guide Geom. iii. 225 Smale achieved notoriety by proving that there exists an eversion of the sphere.
3. Mathematics. eversion of proportion: the principle that, given quantities A, B, C, and D, the proportionality of A to AB is the same as that of C to CD whenever that of A to B is the same as that of C to D. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 134 Conuersion of proportion (which of the elders is commonly called euerse proportion, or euersion of proportion [L. euersa proportionalitas]).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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