单词 | insolation |
释义 | insolationn. The action of placing in the sun; exposure to the sun's rays; sometimes (in modern use) the action or effect of the sun's rays on a body exposed to them. 1. In general sense. (In quot. 1655, Exposure to daylight, or to the public view.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > [noun] exposurea1616 insolation1655 airing1832 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > to heat of sun sunning?1440 insolation1655 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 118 Nature it self, in acts of such uncleannesse..declineth insolation and open view. 1665 Beale in Boyle's Wks. VI. 394 I am almost become confident, that one of my thermometers by such insolation, as may be had in England from our stone walls, hath lost some inches of liquor. 1878 in Sir E. Reed Japan (1880) I. 8 The vegetation now begins to develop under a powerful insolation. 1885 Gardeners' Chron. 23 372 No where else is the effect of insolation more distinctly observed than in the Arctic regions. 2. In specific senses. a. Exposure of some substance to the sun's rays, as for the purpose of drying, bleaching, or maturing. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [noun] > bleaching > bleaching by exposure insolation1617 grassing1705 croft-bleaching1875 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > to heat of sun > for drying, bleaching, etc. insolation1617 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 345 Insolation is the preparation of simple compound things by the heat of sunne in the summer, a gentle fire in the winter. 1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 163 Expose it for Insolation a week or ten dayes. 1706 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 25 2265 Divers ways of making Salt from Sea-Water; first by insolation only, as Bay Salt. 1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Insolation..In Pharmacy, the drying of substances in the rays of the sun; also, the blanching or bleaching of substances by the same means. b. Medical treatment by exposure of the body to the sun's rays. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by fresh air, sunlight, etc. > [noun] insolation1626 air bath1746 sea-bath1785 sun cure1853 air cure1856 climatotherapy1875 mountain cure1876 heliotherapy1890 climatotherapeutics1896 1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 33 in Sylua Syluarum We vse these Towers, according to their seuerall Heights, and Situations, for Insolation, Refrigeration, Conseruation. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 174 The dry [bath]; such as Insolation, or being exposed to the heat of the sun. 1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Insolation..In Medicine, exposure to the sun's rays as a means of cure. c. Injurious exposure (of animals or plants) to the sun's rays or to excessive heat; also, disease thus caused: (a) sunstroke; (b) = heliosis n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > sunstroke or heatstroke sun heatOE calenture1593 insolation1758 coup de soleil1772 sunstroke1787 star-stroke1837 touch of the sun1867 thermoplegia1909 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > exposure to injurious heat or fire > of the sun insolation1758 sun scorch1860 1758 W. Battie Treat. Madness vii. 47 One case of Consequential Madness..is an effect of Insolation, or what the French call coup du Soleil. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 178 Such fever seems less attributable to the reflux of bile into the blood, than to the insolation or solar excitement. 1885 Cent. Mag. 29 661 Disabled in the deserts by insolation produced by excessive heat. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 499 In thermic fever or insolation the object is to reduce the temperature. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xii. 205 Those loosely used terms, sun-stroke, heat-stroke, coup de soleil, insolation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1617 |
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