metabolicaladj.

Brit.

/ˌmɛtəˈbɒlᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˌmɛdəˈbɑlək(ə)l/

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: metabole n.; Greek μεταβολή , -ical suffix.

Etymology: < metabole n. or its etymon ancient Greek μεταβολή + -ical suffix; in sense 1 apparently coined by A. Long (see quot. 1864 at sense 1). Compare earlier metabolic adj.

rare.

†1. Designating a type of educational machine intended to help with the acquisition of linguistic, mathematical, musical, etc., skills by demonstrating to the user a series of possible combinations of letters, words, numbers, or notes. Frequently in Metabolical Machine. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1864 A. Long Brit. Patent 1944 4 I propose to employ mechanical arrangements or apparatus which I call metabolical apparatus, so constructed as to present to the eye a series of interchangeable surfaces marked with or carrying words, notes, or signs.

1865 A. Long Metabolical Machine & its Uses 17 Mr. Alfred Long has brought under public notice an educational apparatus called the ‘Metabolical Machine’... It is like a box in which a number of dice are shaken, to see which side of each comes uppermost.

1865 A. Long Metabolical Machine & its Uses 19 Long's Patent Metabolical Machine..is constructed so as to present..an endless succession of musical combinations, or of sentences in grammatical and idiomatic form.

1868 Sci. Amer. 2 Sept. 145/2 The metabolical machine is a contrivance for enabling children and others to acquire a knowledge of languages, music, etc., in a much shorter time than they could do so, we are told, without its use.

2. = metabolic adj. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > metabolism > [adjective]

metabolic1841

metamorphic1853

metabolical1880

metabolizable1905

1880 Brit. Q. Rev. Oct. 309 The next stage..in the history of our doctrine was the..elaboration of the metabolical theory.

1969 Folia Microbiol. 14 359 (title) Metabolical and morphological events in isolated lung alveolar cell populations making antibodies.

1991 Neurochem. Res. 16 423 Low oxygen pressure available may modify some fundamental metabolical functions of these cells.

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

单词	metabolical
释义	metabolicaladj. Brit. /ˌmɛtəˈbɒlᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəˈbɑlək(ə)l/ Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: metabole n.; Greek μεταβολή , -ical suffix. Etymology: < metabole n. or its etymon ancient Greek μεταβολή + -ical suffix; in sense 1 apparently coined by A. Long (see quot. 1864 at sense 1). Compare earlier metabolic adj. rare. †1. Designating a type of educational machine intended to help with the acquisition of linguistic, mathematical, musical, etc., skills by demonstrating to the user a series of possible combinations of letters, words, numbers, or notes. Frequently in Metabolical Machine. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1864 A. Long Brit. Patent 1944 4 I propose to employ mechanical arrangements or apparatus which I call metabolical apparatus, so constructed as to present to the eye a series of interchangeable surfaces marked with or carrying words, notes, or signs. 1865 A. Long Metabolical Machine & its Uses 17 Mr. Alfred Long has brought under public notice an educational apparatus called the ‘Metabolical Machine’... It is like a box in which a number of dice are shaken, to see which side of each comes uppermost. 1865 A. Long Metabolical Machine & its Uses 19 Long's Patent Metabolical Machine..is constructed so as to present..an endless succession of musical combinations, or of sentences in grammatical and idiomatic form. 1868 Sci. Amer. 2 Sept. 145/2 The metabolical machine is a contrivance for enabling children and others to acquire a knowledge of languages, music, etc., in a much shorter time than they could do so, we are told, without its use. 2. = metabolic adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > metabolism > [adjective] metabolic1841 metamorphic1853 metabolical1880 metabolizable1905 1880 Brit. Q. Rev. Oct. 309 The next stage..in the history of our doctrine was the..elaboration of the metabolical theory. 1969 Folia Microbiol. 14 359 (title) Metabolical and morphological events in isolated lung alveolar cell populations making antibodies. 1991 Neurochem. Res. 16 423 Low oxygen pressure available may modify some fundamental metabolical functions of these cells. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1864
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