单词 | feculency |
释义 | † feculencyn. Obsolete. 1. = feculence n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > rotten or putrefying condition rottingOE rottennessc1350 rottednessa1398 putredea1400 rotnessa1400 rotshipa1400 rottenhead?c1400 putridness?a1425 corruptness1561 putriture1569 putritude1617 putridity1628 putidness1648 feculency1651 putrescency1752 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > polluted or defiled condition sulliedness1571 impurity1598 defiledness1607 dregginess1608 drossiness1638 feculency1651 feculence1733 branfulness1879 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋85 Mortality, feculency, and turbulency. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 122 Nothing of impure sulphureous fœculency. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) iii. v. 347 Spiritual Bodies..raised and sublimed from this drossy feculency. 2. = feculence n. 2; literal and figurative. In plural. Impurities. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > polluting agent drossc1440 defilement1571 foulagea1603 feculency1608 feculence1662 contamination1806 pollutant1892 contaminant1934 crud1943 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > polluting agent > collectively feculency1773 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 306 I could neuer as yet find..drossy matter, or other feculency. 1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. xi. 374 The feculency of urine that sinks to the bottom of the glass. 1680 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) vi. 418 That crust or dry feculancy..called Tartar. 1773 H. Jackson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 6 The reciprocal attraction of the particles of isinglass and the feculencies of the beer. 1822 Burrowes Cycl. X. 287/1 The liquor sometimes thickens too fast to permit the feculencies to rise in the scum. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1608 |
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