单词 | fuliginosity |
释义 | fuliginosityn. Now rare. The condition or quality of being fuliginous or sooty; sooty or carbonaceous matter. Also: blackness, darkness (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > grime, soot, or coal dirt sootc725 smitchc1330 culmc1440 coom1587 coal slack1612 grime1612 crock1657 fuliginosity1662 collow1675 smut1693 colly1708 smutch1791 brook1825 stokers1899 the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [noun] > typical blackness > as soot fuliginousness1576 fuliginosity1662 ramoneur1793 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > soot sootc725 fuligo?a1425 soodc1430 culmc1440 coom1587 fuliginosity1662 collow1675 smut1693 colly1708 1662 P. D. C. tr. N. Le Fèvre Compend. Body Chymistry I. ii. x. 140 Pour new fresh water upon the Amalgam, and..wash it therein to separate and cleanse away all the blackness and fuliginosity [Fr. fuliginosité] thereof. 1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 185 A short tapering funnel..which will serve for a chimney to carry off all fuliginosities [Fr. fuliginosités]. 1814 Τεμαχη των Πορσωνος Μεγαλων Δειπνων: Scraps Rich Feast p. vi The pot and kettle..reproached each other for their mutual fuliginosities. 1829 S. D. Gross tr. J. V. von Hildenbrand Treat. Contagious Typhus 66 To the symptoms of putridity belong, moreover, the blackness of the tongue and the fuliginosity of the teeth. 1837 T. Carlyle in London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 401 In the old Marquis there dwells withal..a latent fury and fuliginosity very perverting. 1921 Weekly Rev. 24 Sept. 270/3 ‘Reservations’ is a word of dubiosity, not to say of fuliginosity. 1995 D. English in N.Y. 29 May 107/3 The nocturnal inclemency was exceeded only by its fulginosity. It was a dark and stormy night. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1662 |
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