accensionn.

Brit.

/əkˈsɛnʃn/, U.S.

/əkˈsɛn(t)ʃən/

Forms: 1600s–1800s accention, 1600s– accension.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin accension-, accensio.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin accension-, accensio action of kindling (Vetus Latina), sexual arousal (5th cent.), illumination of the mind (6th cent.), (in medical context) inflammation (13th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin accens- , past participial stem of accendere accend v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French accension beginning of an illness (a1365 in an isolated attestation), Portuguese acensão combustion, ignition (1671 as †accensão).

Now rare exc. historical.

The action of catching fire or setting something on fire; the state of being on fire; combustion; ignition; Medicine fermentation producing heat, heating or overheating of the blood or other ‘humour’ (= ebullition n. 1b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > heated condition

calefaction1634

accension1646

estuosity1657

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire

incension?a1475

inflammation1563

accension1646

ignition1816

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 88 From Small-coal ensueth the black colour and quick accension .

1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6170 What remedies are proper for the Blood, to mend..its defective or excessive accension.

1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery iii. 148 The great quantity of windy Exhalation, produced by the accension of the Salpeter.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 398 This black smoke..is an evident proof of the accension of coal and bitumen laid on fresh.

1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 2 645 This machine may facilitate the admixture and accension of the airs.

1840 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 15 411 The temperature of the mixture is below the point, either of its accension or complete combustion.

1895 G. E. Gerini Chŭlăkantamaṅgala 161 The torch is kept lighted in a special white gauze frame. The operation of its extinction is performed with as much solemnity as the accension.

1995 S. Hood tr. B. Fenoglio in P. Cooke Ital. Resistance (1997) vi. vi. 162 Captain Boxhall..fished out a large tin-box of Craven for an introductory cigarette. Controling the perfect accension of same, the captain said: [etc.].

2005 P. Strathern Brief Hist. Med. vii. 147 As the blood carrying the dissolved food circulated through the heart ‘accension’ (fermentation) produced heat and turned the food into nutrient blood.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	accension
释义	accensionn. Brit. /əkˈsɛnʃn/, U.S. /əkˈsɛn(t)ʃən/ Forms: 1600s–1800s accention, 1600s– accension. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin accension-, accensio. Etymology: < post-classical Latin accension-, accensio action of kindling (Vetus Latina), sexual arousal (5th cent.), illumination of the mind (6th cent.), (in medical context) inflammation (13th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin accens- , past participial stem of accendere accend v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French accension beginning of an illness (a1365 in an isolated attestation), Portuguese acensão combustion, ignition (1671 as †accensão). Now rare exc. historical. The action of catching fire or setting something on fire; the state of being on fire; combustion; ignition; Medicine fermentation producing heat, heating or overheating of the blood or other ‘humour’ (= ebullition n. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > heated condition calefaction1634 accension1646 estuosity1657 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire incension?a1475 inflammation1563 accension1646 ignition1816 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 88 From Small-coal ensueth the black colour and quick accension . View more context for this quotation 1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6170 What remedies are proper for the Blood, to mend..its defective or excessive accension. 1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery iii. 148 The great quantity of windy Exhalation, produced by the accension of the Salpeter. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 398 This black smoke..is an evident proof of the accension of coal and bitumen laid on fresh. 1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 2 645 This machine may facilitate the admixture and accension of the airs. 1840 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 15 411 The temperature of the mixture is below the point, either of its accension or complete combustion. 1895 G. E. Gerini Chŭlăkantamaṅgala 161 The torch is kept lighted in a special white gauze frame. The operation of its extinction is performed with as much solemnity as the accension. 1995 S. Hood tr. B. Fenoglio in P. Cooke Ital. Resistance (1997) vi. vi. 162 Captain Boxhall..fished out a large tin-box of Craven for an introductory cigarette. Controling the perfect accension of same, the captain said: [etc.]. 2005 P. Strathern Brief Hist. Med. vii. 147 As the blood carrying the dissolved food circulated through the heart ‘accension’ (fermentation) produced heat and turned the food into nutrient blood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1646
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