单词 | insectile |
释义 | insectileadj.1n. A. adj.1 Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an insect; consisting of insects; also figurative resembling an insect, infesting like insects. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] insectile1654 entomological1815 entomic1862 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] > resembling insectile1654 entomoid1835 insecty1859 insectiform1888 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] > infesting like insects insectile1654 1654 H. Hammond Of Fundamentals in Misc. Theol. Wks. II. (1849) 118 Insectile animals, for want of blood, run all out into legs. 1660 E. Stillingfleet Irenicum i. ii. 68 As he observes from Aristotle in Insectile Animals, the want of blood was the cause they run out into so many legs. 1667 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 412 All these [works of Aristotle] are..overwhelmed and degraded by the swarms of Insectile Systemes and dilute Commentaries. 1877 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VII. lxxxi. 266 The insectile noise. 1891 Voice (N.Y.) 21 May They [orchards] are not responsible for the insectile armies that may attack them. = insect n. Obsolete. (Cf. reptile n.1) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of crabc1000 crab-fisha1400 crayfish1509 insect1601 many-foot1601 insectile1615 condylope1835 condylopod1855 arthropod1861 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 546 In those creatures which want eye-lids, as Locusts, Lobsters, Crabs, & such like insectiles, nature hath prouided certaine cauities, whereinto in the time of their repose..they receiue their whole eies. 1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ (ed. 2) 264 In those several Transformations and Renovations of the Ant, and Silk-worm, and many such Insectiles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † insectileadj.2 Obsolete. rare. Incapable of being cut or divided. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > united into a whole > not divided, separated, or split > incapable of being divided indivisiblec1380 indepartable1393 unpartable?c1425 undivisible1495 inseparable?1504 unpartible?c1510 undividible1569 impartible1586 undissoluble1587 individable1601 undividual1603 undissolvable1611 individuate1621 insecable1623 individuous1624 insectile1635 indispertiblea1641 indisseverablea1641 individuated1689 indivisivea1706 partless1705 unanalysable1788 imparticipable1789 indecomposable1807 indecomponible1809 indissoluble1841 disseparablea1849 1635 D. Person Varieties v. 62 Atoms..are little insectile bodies..not unlike the Moates which wee see to tumble and rowle about in the Sunne beames. a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. iii. 189 Nor can that be destroyed..which, being insectile, has nothing to divide or oppose it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1n.1615adj.21635 |
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