单词 | out-budding |
释义 | † out-buddingn. Obsolete. An offshoot or precursor; a sudden development or expansion. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [noun] > budding budding1398 knotting1611 proliferation1759 gemmation1760 prolification1760 pullulation1829 out-budding1841 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 164 That strange outbudding of our whole English Existence, which we call the Elizabethan Era. 1864 N. Wiseman Serm. Moral Subj. xiii. 222 What else are..our hourly ailings..but germs and out-buddings of that noxious creeping parasite, death? 1872 Harper's Mag. July 242/2 The little kiss..was only the natural outbudding of the circumstances in which they were. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1841 |
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