单词 | nascently |
释义 | nascentlyadv. In a nascent manner; incipiently; (Science) in a way that involves a nascent substance (cf. nascent adj. 2c), in the course of a chemical reaction. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adverb] > in early stages inchoately1627 inchoatively1649 embryonately1665 rudimentarily1837 incipiently1856 nascently1856 embryonically1899 1856 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 26 Dec. 82/2 These hydrated oxides may be eliminated nascently in contact with the oil itself. 1880 Mind 5 110 In voluntary operations we suppose there is a preconception; the operation is nascently done or ‘dreamt’ before it is actually done. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ix. 258 Other processes discharge that ought as yet to be but nascently aroused. 1936 C. L. White & G. T. Renner Geogr. xxiv. 517 The water present in volcanic and geyser eruptions is at least partially of magmatic origin. It is, in that event, nascently formed by the union of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, as these gases are liberated from hot magmatic materials deep in the earth. 1957–60 W. Everson Coll. Poems (1998) II. iv. 196 The inflammable gestures of a crude sexuality Nascently alive, a virgin gambling away her maidenhood. 1986 New Yorker 16 June 37/3 His gait childish but nascently athletic. 1997 Jrnl. Immunol. 159 4035 The nascently formed immune complexes showed rapid and quantitative binding to erythrocytes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1856 |
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