单词 | aposteme |
释义 | † apostemen. Obsolete. 1. A gathering of purulent matter in any part of the body; a large deep-seated abscess. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess aposteme1340 felon1340 postumea1398 exiturea1400 imposthumec1400 buboc1425 impostumation1524 ancome1538 meliceris1562 undimy1562 rising1568 abscess1574 abscession1583 nail1600 the worm1607 apostematea1627 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2995 Som, for envy, sal haf in thair lyms, Als kylles and felouns and apostyms. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. v. 118 To serche woundes and hurtes, and to cutte apostumes. 1585 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Health (new ed.) sig. T iv Mulberies verye ripe..breke wonderfully the apostoms. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. lxvii. 898 The linnet is troubled..with hot apostemes, conuulsions, and gouts. The finch is woont to haue impostumes. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 238 A dangerous Apostem in thy brest. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick vi. vii. 143 Others put a Wax Candle..into the Œsophagus to break the Aposthume. 1714 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 29 75 If an Aposteme breaks out. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Aposteme, Apostema, Apostume,..a preternatural Tumor; call'd also Abscess and Imposthume. 2. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful thing or person > thing > slow or stealthy apostemec1380 cankera1475 cankerworm1580 cancer1597 sap1748 tapeworm1824 c1380 J. Wyclif De Eccles. vi, in Wks. (1871) III. 353 Apostemes þat ben harmful in þe Chirche. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1695/1 So is sedition..the apostume of the realme, which when it breaketh inwardlye, putteth the state in great daunger of recouerye. 1681 R. Baxter Answer to Mr. Dodwell iv. §24. 40 This opens the Core of the Aposthume. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † apostemeapostumev. Obsolete. rare. To form or break into an abscess. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > suppurate [verb (intransitive)] > form abscess impostumec1400 aposteme1525 apostemate1600 impostumate1607 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cli. 417 He was in ieopardy of dethe, for his hed apostumed. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 434/1 I apostume, as a sore dothe, Japostume. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1340v.1525 |
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