| 单词 | nocturnal pollution |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnocturnal pollution nocturnal pollution n. [after post-classical Latin nocturna pollutio (late 6th or early 7th cent.)] now archaic = nocturnal emission n.; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > ejaculation > involuntary during sleep nocturnal pollution1650 nocturnal emission1821 wet dream1851 1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes (new ed.) Transl. Suppl. 98 Nostoch understandeth the nocturnall Pollution of some plethoricall and wanton Star, or rather excrement blown from the nostrills of some rheumatick planet,..in consistence like a gelly, and so trembling if touched. 1678 J. Locke Jrnl. 15 July in K. Dewhurst John Locke (1963) 131 A pill of tachamahaca..gave him in the night a nocturnal pollution, which he used not to have, but took away the other hysterical symptoms. 1871 R. Bartholow Spermatorrhoea 65 The nocturnal pollutions, at first accompanied by erections and a sensation of pleasure, at last become passive. 1999 A. Arensberg Incubus vii. xx. 231 During the witch-hunts many inquisitors believed that incubus demons ‘borrowed’ semen from men, collecting and hoarding the fluid men spilled in sleep during nocturnal pollutions. < as lemmas |
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