单词 | arietation |
释义 | arietationn. archaic. 1. The action of butting like a ram; hence, the striking with a battering-ram or similar instrument. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of siege weapons > [noun] > use of battering-ram arietation1625 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) lviii. 338 The Strength of the Percussion; wherein likewise Ordnance doe exceed all Arietations. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xxiv. 210 Before Ordinance was found out, ships were both gunnes and bullets themselves, and furiously ranne one against another. They began with this arietation. 2. transferred and figurative. Battering, concussion, clashing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > [noun] > forcible, heavy, or violent piltinga1250 racec1330 squatc1350 dasha1375 percussion?a1425 peise1490 poise1490 dashing1580 gulp1598 jolt1599 feeze1603 slam1622 arietation1625 pash1677 pulse1677 jounce1784 smash1808 smashing1821 dush1827 birr1830 dunch1831 whop1895 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words bruntc1425 assaultc1449 battery1562 onset1566 brash1573 breach1578 onslaught1613 onfall1646 attack1653 assay?1705 to return to the charge1752 arietation1797 set-to1808 set1829 dead set1835 go-in1858 on-ding1871 hatchet work1938 blitzkrieg1939 blitz1940 carpet bombing1956 bowling1959 1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe 106 Examining the certainty of truth..by a kinde of Arietation, a tryall which floating conceits..cannot abide. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing v. 48 Such tumultuary motions, cross thwartings, and arietations of other particles. 1797 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 24 534 Props of our old constitution against the arietations of democracy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1625 |
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