单词 | infoliate |
释义 | infoliateadj. Chiefly poetic. = infoliated adj. ΚΠ 1743 A. Hill Fanciad i. 4 Round th'infoliate Fire, in sparkly Glow, Legions of undulating Glories flow. 1770 J. Towers Evangelical Poems 83 All the trees infoliate and dry. 1858 Harvard Mag. Apr. 99 Soon warm April draws her near, And infoliate buds appear. 1914 A. Lowell Sword Blades & Poppy Seed 120 She straight unhasped the tall, beflowered gate. Curled into tendrils, twisted into cones Of leaves and roses, iron infoliate, It guards the pleasance. 1996 P. Riley Noon Province 78 Of complete certainty never to be Relinquished; heart infoliate the only Lasting or wanted thing. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). infoliatev. 1. intransitive. To acquire leaves, to become leafy. rare.It is possible to read quot. 1640 as having a transitive verb, as at sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > have leaves [verb (intransitive)] > grow leaves or be in leaf leavec1300 blade1601 leaf1611 infoliate1640 foliate1775 frondescea1816 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 219 Long may his fruitfull Vine infolliat and clasp about him. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (citing Howell) Infoliate, to blossom or bud forth leaves, to be full of leaves, to be enleaved or wrapt with leaves. [Also in later dictionaries.] 1973 Boundary 2 2 202 He can't actually see anything grow on earth except in artificially controlled situations. Little..he can actually see grow or infoliate before his very eyes. 2. transitive. To cover or surround with leaves; to enfold in or with leaves. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. II To Infoliate, to cover with leaves. 1808 I. Jenner Addr. Parents & Guardians 40 The expanded branches, infoliated thereby, are highly valuable for ingraftment on ingenious youth. 1812 Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1810 3 ii. p. xcix Ere long, the vernal year..Shall seek this trembling shade of thine; Thee to infoliate. 1917 S. Atlantic Q. 16 233 From conquered nations..great principles germinate and bloom, and infoliate the world with new luxuriance. 1960 S. N. Behrman Portrait of Max ii. 41 Since we were standing in front of the mirror, I made some comment on that—how it infoliated the images and focused them. 2004 D. Handelman in D. Handelman & G. Lindquist Ritual in its Own Right (2005) 214 These acts of imagining open the social to the creation of formations that enfold and infoliate the social in myriad ways, remaking, limiting, generating it. Derivatives inˈfoliating adj. ΚΠ ?1785 T. Warwick tr. M. St. Lambert Spring in Abelard to Eloisa (ed. 4) 44 The captive sap..Spreads from the bud th' infoliating green. 1975 Boundary 2 3 418/1 The quiet infoliating visions of paranoia and guilt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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