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单词 exsiccate
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exsiccateadj.

Forms: Also 1500s exiccat, 1600s exciccat, exsiccat, 1700s exiccate.
Etymology: < Latin exsiccāt- past participle of exsiccāre : see exsiccate v.
Obsolete.
Dried, dried up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up)
dryc950
drieda1340
desiccatec1420
undriedc1440
exsiccate1540
mummianized1593
exsiccated1646
exust1657
desiccateda1676
dehydrated1884
dehumidified1940
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxii So that the preuye passage be lest [sic] exiccat and drye.
1614 T. Godwin Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia ii. ii. viii. 45 They were not vlcerous, exsiccate or impostumated.
1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 42 The heated and exsiccate Air.
1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) ii. 747 O let me..think The fountains of thy eyes are exiccate.
figurative.1622 J. Abernethy Christian & Heavenly Treat. vi. 81 So in the spirituall hardnesse, the liquor of grace, of light, and of reason is exciccat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

exsiccatev.

/ˈɛksɪkeɪt//ɛkˈsɪkeɪt/
Forms: Also 1500s exciccate, exiccate, 1600s–1700s exiccate.
Etymology: < participial stem of Latin ex(s)iccāre, < ex- (see ex- prefix1) + siccus dry.
1. transitive. To dry, make dry, absorb or remove all moisture from; to drain (a spring) dry; to dry up (moisture).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)]
dryc888
adroweOE
drow1393
exsiccate1540
siccate1570
desiccate1575
unsteep1598
siccicate1639
exsicce1657
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xix Let her auoyde such thynges the whiche sholde exiccat..her.
1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 11 These .ij. vnguentes are excellent in exciccating ericipelas.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vi. 171 Bodies..that have been exsiccated into Mummy.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 87 The Spring near the Church..has been sometimes exsiccated.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1708) vii. i. 228 Heats and Droughts..exsiccate and waste the moisture and vegetative Nature of the Earth.
1809 G. Pearson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 327 This dissolution being exsiccated grew liquid on exposure to air.
absolute.1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxix. sig. V2 Ayre exsiccates and drawes to it selfe.1655 Woodall's Surgeons Mate (new ed.) 67 Cortex Gnaiaci hath the same vertue..but exsiccateth much more.
2. intransitive for reflexive. To dry up, lose all moisture.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > dry up
adroweOE
dry?c1325
to dry up1535
crine?1553
exsiccate1686
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. xii. 321 'Tis a question worth while, adds he, how they can exsiccate.

Derivatives

exsiccated adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up)
dryc950
drieda1340
desiccatec1420
undriedc1440
exsiccate1540
mummianized1593
exsiccated1646
exust1657
desiccateda1676
dehydrated1884
dehumidified1940
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iii. 68 The exsiccated powder..ascends not unto the Loadstone. View more context for this quotation
1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. xiv. 427 Throw common exsiccated salt in it.
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table ix That exsiccated..organism.
exsiccating n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > drying
dryinga1398
exsiccativec1400
uritivea1425
desiccative?1541
siccative1547
exsiccating1620
desiccating1638
exsiccant1657
desiccant1775
desiccatoryc1800
dehydrating1884
dehumidifying1933
in-sack1951
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 106 They are of a more exiccating nature.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 3 By the heat of the Sun, or exsiccating power of the Air.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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