单词 | obex |
释义 | obexn. 1. An impediment or obstacle; a mental barrier. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle hinderc1200 withsetting1340 obstaclec1385 traversea1393 mara1400 bayc1440 stoppagec1450 barrace1480 blocka1500 objecta1500 clog1526 stumbling-stone1526 bar1530 (to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548 stumbling-stock1548 hindrance1576 a log in one's way1579 crossbar1582 log1589 rub1589 threshold1600 scotch1601 dam1602 remora1604 obex1611 obstructiona1616 stumbling-blocka1616 fence1639 affront1642 retardance1645 stick1645 balk1660 obstruent1669 blockade1683 sprun1684 spoke1689 cross cause1696 uncomplaisance1707 barrier1712 obstruct1747 dike1770 abatis1808 underbrush1888 bunker1900 bump1909 sprag1914 hurdle1924 headwind1927 mudhole1933 monkey wrench1937 roadblock1945 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ll2v That he might obiect the same as an obex or a barre for repulsing the violent inuasion of the Batauians. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xix. 337 This great Obex, or bar to our enjoyment of God is..removed by the death of Christ. 1854 A. Lee Doctr. of Baptism 20 The adult may, by positive unbelief, place an obex or hindrance in the way of the efficacy of the ordinance. 1874 Chron. Convocation 29 Apr. 126 If this Lower House should interpose any obex or bar. 1894 Catholic World Nov. 200 The obex, or obstacle, to truth presented by their simple superstitions is a comparatively small one. 1918 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics X. 907 The doctrine of obex. The word dates from Augustine... The obex is a mental state opposed to faith, which in the case of an adult might annul the saving effect of the sacrament. 2. Anatomy. A small, crescentic fold of white matter that covers the inferior angle of the floor of the fourth ventricle. ΚΠ 1881 B. G. Wilder in Science 26 Mar. 135/2 Obex, I have not identified this part. 1882 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 9) II. 290 Another thickening in the epithelial membrane is sometimes seen at the apex of the ventricle roofing over the point of the calamus scriptorius: this is named the obex. 1934 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 224 5 Between the eminences lies a well-defined obex. 1957 Science 27 Dec. 1346/1 The experiments were carried out on cats whose spinal cords had been transected just below the obex. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. xi. 373/2 Transection of the descending trigeminal tract at the level of the obex effectively relieves the condition. 1991 NeuroReport 2 225/1 Bulbospinal neurons which are mostly inspiratory rostral to the obex. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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