单词 | obliterating |
释义 | obliteratingn. 1. Obliteration, destruction, eradication. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] blottingc1440 obliterationa1527 obliterating1610 rasurea1616 obliterature1711 erasion1790 effacement1797 expungement1891 the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > deliberate forgetting, condoning > [noun] > act of unlearning1579 obliterating1610 dismission1743 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. 36 The obliterating of the name and memory of such a villaine out of that Kingdome. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra ii. ii. 185 His Power seems to extend to the obliterating of Principles. 1753 B. Holloway Letter & Spirit xli. 339 Presumptious they will be to speak evil of the Things which (thro' the obliterating of their Reason) they, as rational Creatures know not. 1843 J. B. Morris Essay towards Conversion of Hindus iv. 355 If it is in any sense the obliterating of the consequences of past sin, then it must be supposed to obliterate the worst consequences of it. 1993 A. E. Benjamin Plural Event 134 The latter is of course the attempt to establish singularity by the ending of relation and the obliterating of the event. 2. Philately. The cancellation or defacing of a postage stamp with a postmark in order to prevent further use. Usually attributive (see also Compounds). ΚΠ 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 587/1 Other improvements of value have also been made in the obliterating process. 1898 W. A. S. Westoby Adhesive Postage Stamps Europe I. 266 After long deliberation and many experiments it was resolved..to change the obliterating ink to black. 1982 J. Mackay Guinness Bk. Stamps 51 The first combined stamps in Scotland consisted of double circles, with the office number at the foot, flanked by twin obliterating bars. Compounds obliterating mark n. Philately a cancelling mark on a postage stamp. ΚΠ 1879 Philatelic Rec. 1 101 The Stamford Mercury is the only newspaper in Great Britain which uses it's own obliterating mark on 1/2d. band, franking papers from its own office. 1932 S. Phillips Stamp Collecting xiii. 118 The term ‘cancellation’ is also frequently applied where ‘obliterating mark’ would be more correct. 1966 R. J. Sutton Stamp Collector's Encycl. 213 A special postmark employed for defacing stamps is..properly termed an obliterating mark. obliterating stamp n. [compare French timbre oblitérateur (1877)] Philately an inked stamp (stamp n.3 5a) used to cancel postage stamps. ΚΠ 1856 in H. Robinson Brit. Post Office (1948) xxv. 364 Obliterating stamps. 1942 Stanley Gibbons' Priced Catal. Postage Stamps (ed. 48) i. 2 Being hand-cut, the obliterating stamps varied greatly in detail. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). obliteratingadj. That obliterates or causes obliteration. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adjective] obliterating1703 effacing1813 1703 S. F. Egerton Poems Several Occasions 81 One deep obliterating Draught of Lethe take. 1820 C. R. Maturin Melmoth III. xiv. 174 The angel of death, with one obliterating sweep of his wing, cancels misery and debt. 1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy iv. 254 Down fell an obliterating blot. 1908 L. Buerger in Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 136 580 I would suggest that..we adopt the terms ‘obliterating thrombo-angiitis’ of the lower extremities when we wish to speak of the disease under discussion. 1977 Times 28 Nov. 79/3 One can see that her husband's rejection was obliterating to Agatha. 1997 Guardian 28 Nov. (Friday Review section) 2/4 These woodchippy surroundings also account for the rise of hedonistic, obliterating dance music. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1610adj.1703 |
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