单词 | oscitation |
释义 | oscitationn. Now rare. 1. The action or an act of yawning from drowsiness. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [noun] > action of yawning yawningc725 oscitation1547 oscitance1636 yawn1707 oscitancy1717 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Ciii Ossitacio is the latyn worde... In englysh it is named ossitacion yeanynge or gapynge. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 289 As it happeneth in oscitations or yawnings when wee hold our breath long. 1787 Minor iii. iv. 168 The Ladies, after much oscitation, declared they did not understand. 1817 T. J. Pettigrew Mem. J. C. Lettsom III. 284 The paroxysm came on at six o'clock in the evening with great oscitation. 1856 W. W. Dobie Recoll. Visit Port-Phillip iii. 52 Inducing a sympathetic reader to indulge in two years oscitation at one ‘go off’. 1955 J. M. Cohen tr. F. Rabelais Hist. Gargantua & Pantagruel iv. lxiii. 585 What's the remedy for oscitation or yawning? ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] accidiaOE accidie?c1225 lethargyc1380 faintness1398 lithernessc1425 listlesshedec1440 owlisthead1440 supinity1548 lustlessness1556 benumbedness1566 phlegm1578 apoplexy1589 acedia1607 torpor1607 drowsiness1611 torpidity1614 languishmentc1620 hebetude1621 acedy1623 inerty1623 supineness1640 listlessness1646 cadaveriety1651 inertitude1656 oscitation1656 torpulency1657 sopor1658 phlegmaticness1659 lethargicalness1664 torpidnessa1676 faineantisea1684 phlegmatism1688 vis inertiae1710 torpitude1713 moonery1764 donothingness1814 benumbment1817 inertia1821 languor1825 donothingism1839 Mondayishness1850 mooniness1852 mooning1857 fainéantisme1873 sog1874 Oblomovism1902 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > [noun] > drowsy inattention oscitancy1609 oscitance1636 oscitation1656 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > negligence negligence1351 lashness1477 uncarefulness1567 oscitancy1609 neglect1610 neglectiveness1621 oscitation1656 neglectfulness1693 laches1844 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > [noun] > drowsy inattention > instance of oscitancy1649 oscitation1656 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Oscitation, negligence or idleness. 1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 119 'Tis a mere oscitation of our Scholiast, and of Suidas that gaped after him. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub v. 113 His Epidemical Diseases being Fastiodisity, Amorphy, and Oscitation. 1744 E. Carter Let. 20 July in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) I. 45 These transient fits of oscitation, and inactivity, are perhaps no more than a necessary relaxation to the mind. 1869 A. W. Haddan Apostolical Succession Church Eng. (1883) 158 The natural oscitation on the part of individuals in the matter of rigorous adherence to admitted principle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1547 |
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