miasman.

Brit.

/mɪˈazmə/,

/mʌɪˈazmə/, U.S.

/maɪˈæzmə/,

/miˈæzmə/

Inflections: Plural miasmas, miasmata.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μίασμα.

Etymology: < ancient Greek μίασμα stain, defilement < μιαίνειν to stain, sully, defile, of uncertain origin + -σμα , extended form of -μα (see -oma comb. form). Compare earlier miasm n. Compare post-classical Latin miasma (1672 in the passage translated in quot. 1720 at sense 1); 1651 in Greek characters in W. Harvey Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium xlix. 280.

1. Noxious vapour rising from putrescent organic matter, marshland, etc., which pollutes the atmosphere; a cloud of such vapour. Also in extended use.Formerly believed to be the carrier of various infections, esp. malaria.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisonous exhalation

damp1480

mephitis1625

miasm1649

miasma1665

the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > noxious vapour or gas

reekeOE

air?c1225

damp1480

mephitis1625

smoke1648

effluvium1656

fume1665

miasma1665

mephitic1802

1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 395 The Miasma or Malign Inquination of blood and humors.

1720 J. Quincy tr. N. Hodges Loimologia ii. 54 The pestilential Miasmata may be broke and destroyed by the Occursion of others.

1765 Ann. Reg. ii. 108/2 He philosophises..on the effect of this bath, and believes that the earth absorbs into it morbose miasmas, &c.

1827 J. Macculloch Malaria i. 1 It has long been familiar to physicians that there was produced by..marshes and swamps, a poisonous and æriform substance, the cause, not only of ordinary fevers, but of intermittents; and to this unknown agent of disease the term marsh miasma has been applied.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. i. 20 The deadly miasmata which render the forests on the skirts of the hills utterly impassable.

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 35 It was full of miasma and fever in the hot season.

1946 J. Hersey Hiroshima ii. 32 As much of Hiroshima as he could see through the clouded air was giving off a thick, dreadful miasma.

1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways i. xii. 23 A woman..sat staring numbly through the miasma of her cigarette.

1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 13 It follows that epidemics develop when miasma pollutes this involucrum.

2. figurative.

ΚΠ

1831 Biblical Repertory & Theol. Rev. Oct. 502 The virus of the poisoned orthodoxy, shedding its influences afar and its miasmata on the pinions of every breeze.

1878 S. Smiles Robert Dick ii. 13 The noxious miasmas that poison the whole human heart.

1938 S. Beckett Murphy v. 79 The atmosphere there [i.e. in Lincoln's Inn Fields] was foul, a miasma of laws.

1973 Listener 26 July 123/1 The indescribable verbal miasma, exhalations of Nacht und Nebel, that is Scientology's contribution to the encyclopaedia of religious knowledge.

1997 Independent 12 May i. 20/4 It's the atmosphere of Euro-glitzy style, the miasma of expensive, lotus-eating fun that's worth buying into.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	miasma
释义	miasman. Brit. /mɪˈazmə/, /mʌɪˈazmə/, U.S. /maɪˈæzmə/, /miˈæzmə/ Inflections: Plural miasmas, miasmata. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μίασμα. Etymology: < ancient Greek μίασμα stain, defilement < μιαίνειν to stain, sully, defile, of uncertain origin + -σμα , extended form of -μα (see -oma comb. form). Compare earlier miasm n. Compare post-classical Latin miasma (1672 in the passage translated in quot. 1720 at sense 1); 1651 in Greek characters in W. Harvey Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium xlix. 280. 1. Noxious vapour rising from putrescent organic matter, marshland, etc., which pollutes the atmosphere; a cloud of such vapour. Also in extended use.Formerly believed to be the carrier of various infections, esp. malaria. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisonous exhalation damp1480 mephitis1625 miasm1649 miasma1665 the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > noxious vapour or gas reekeOE air?c1225 damp1480 mephitis1625 smoke1648 effluvium1656 fume1665 miasma1665 mephitic1802 1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 395 The Miasma or Malign Inquination of blood and humors. 1720 J. Quincy tr. N. Hodges Loimologia ii. 54 The pestilential Miasmata may be broke and destroyed by the Occursion of others. 1765 Ann. Reg. ii. 108/2 He philosophises..on the effect of this bath, and believes that the earth absorbs into it morbose miasmas, &c. 1827 J. Macculloch Malaria i. 1 It has long been familiar to physicians that there was produced by..marshes and swamps, a poisonous and æriform substance, the cause, not only of ordinary fevers, but of intermittents; and to this unknown agent of disease the term marsh miasma has been applied. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. i. 20 The deadly miasmata which render the forests on the skirts of the hills utterly impassable. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 35 It was full of miasma and fever in the hot season. 1946 J. Hersey Hiroshima ii. 32 As much of Hiroshima as he could see through the clouded air was giving off a thick, dreadful miasma. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways i. xii. 23 A woman..sat staring numbly through the miasma of her cigarette. 1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 13 It follows that epidemics develop when miasma pollutes this involucrum. 2. figurative. ΚΠ 1831 Biblical Repertory & Theol. Rev. Oct. 502 The virus of the poisoned orthodoxy, shedding its influences afar and its miasmata on the pinions of every breeze. 1878 S. Smiles Robert Dick ii. 13 The noxious miasmas that poison the whole human heart. 1938 S. Beckett Murphy v. 79 The atmosphere there [i.e. in Lincoln's Inn Fields] was foul, a miasma of laws. 1973 Listener 26 July 123/1 The indescribable verbal miasma, exhalations of Nacht und Nebel, that is Scientology's contribution to the encyclopaedia of religious knowledge. 1997 Independent 12 May i. 20/4 It's the atmosphere of Euro-glitzy style, the miasma of expensive, lotus-eating fun that's worth buying into. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1665
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