periodicaladj.n.

Brit.

/ˌpɪərɪˈɒdᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˌpɪriˈɑdək(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s– periodical, 1600s periodicall.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin periodicus , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < classical Latin periodicus periodic adj.¹ + -al suffix¹. Compare post-classical Latin periodicalis recurring at regular intervals (a1350 in a British source). Compare later periodic adj.¹

A. adj.

a. Recurring at regular intervals; periodic adj.¹ 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > periodical or recurring at regular intervals

continualc1530

periodical1585

termly1594

clock-like1609

terminal1610

stated1611

regular1639

periodic1661

clockwork1679

recursive1766

clockwork-like1875

tidal1876

seasonal1880

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > fevers of specific duration

quotidiana1393

quartana1398

ephemera1528

quartern?1549

semitertian1565

ephemeral1576

periodical1585

typic1601

septimane1634

ephemeran1643

hemitritaean1651

nonan1657

quintan1657

septan1657

sextan1657

quartanary1669

subintrant1747

periodic1805

octan1835

typical1853

1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. i. xlviii. 258 The inueterate Varix (which com[m]only keepeth some periodical turns of increasing and decreasing) must be opened and vented in his periodes.

1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) (at cited word) An Ague is called a Periodical disease, because it keeps a just time of its return.

1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 95 The Females of these have periodical Visits like Females of the Human Race.

1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) II. 224 The rains, as in the other countries situated under the tropics, are periodical.

1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy xii. 381 Among the stars are several which..undergo a regular periodical increase and diminution of lustre... These are called periodical stars.

1881 Nature 27 Oct. 613/2 These [sun] spots as to their frequency and magnitude appear to be subject to a periodical inequality.

1920 Act 10 & 11 George V c. 33 §10 The expression ‘maintenance order’ means an order other than an order of affiliation for the periodical payment of sums of money towards the maintenance of the wife or other dependants.

1991 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 615/1 The Health Services for the Elderly Act 1982 has provided for six health services..for all people in any area of Japan who..are not offered periodical health examinations at their place of work.

b. Recurring or reappearing intermittently; occasional.

ΚΠ

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. iii. 38 Intermittent fevers which the Greeks call Periodicall.

1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 408 The hoarse, deep, periodical croak of the cormorants.

1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 236 Many viviparous animals are subject to periodical venereal orgasm.

?a1875 G. L. Meredith Adventuring in Maoriland (1935) 64 A bailed-up pig makes periodical rushes at the baiting dogs.

1934 B. Lehmann Rumour of Heaven i. ii. 22 Mrs. Humble took advantage of that time of stress to make one of her periodical announcements that she was leaving.

2003 Scots Mag. Feb. 182/2 The landlords chose this moment to impose one of their periodical rent rises.

2. Astronomy. = periodic adj.¹ 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [adjective] > movement in orbit

periodical1603

periodic1650

revolutional1652

orbitual1806

orbital1846

orbituary1864

orbiting1951

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1024 Nature..determined motion with periodicall revolutions.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) The Periodical Motion of the Moon, is that whereby she finishes her Course round about the Earth in a Month.

1734 tr. P. L. M. de Maupertuis Diss. Cœlestial Bodies 37 in J. Keill Exam. Burnet's Theory of Earth (ed. 2) The Periodical times of the Planets.

1846 J. Joyce Astron. in Sci. Dialogues xiv. 98 This is called the periodical month.

1954 Isis 45 352 Such evidences of instability as the apparent shortening of the moon's periodical month were used to refute the doctrine of the eternity of the world.

3. Of verbal or written style: characterized by the use of rhetorical periods (period n. 16); elevated, formal, ornamental.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [adjective] > period

periodical1683

periodic1701

1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 335 Nazianzen's [style] is..more sententious and periodical.

1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 4. ⁋4 Your high nonsense..is loud and sonorous, smooth and periodical.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. iv. 103 The author..would refer..to the beginnings of his Hermes and his Philosophical Arrangements, where some attempts have been made in this periodical style.

1834 N. Amer. Rev. July 37 A certain poetical chemistry to concentrate, to fuse, to sublime the style and to separate its measures from the rhythm of periodical prose.

1944 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 24 212 He uses involved periodical sentences; his paragraphs consist of the most diverse materials placed side by side.

1979 P. de Man Allegories of Reading xii. 289 Classical rhetoric mentions anacoluthon especially with regard to the structure of periodical sentences, when a shift..occurs between the first part of the period..and the second part.

2000 J. Torrens in W. Cleary Selving x. 88 We took as model John Henry Newman who, with the page-long sentences of his oration..led us into the thickets of Ciceronian periodical style.

†4. Mathematics. Of, relating to, or expressed in periods (period n. 18). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > relating to mathematical property

simple1570

dissevered1605

periodicala1690

irreductible1753

analytical1799

analytic1800

compound1806

well-conditioned1843

one-valued1884

non-empty1905

well-behaved1912

minimax1917

irredundant1925

non-linear1930

constructive1938

extremal1939

max-min1949

meta-analytic1968

meta-analytic1978

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 15 The Periodical Division shews the thousandth place of the Number.

5. Of a magazine, journal, etc.: published at regular intervals (usually weekly, monthly or quarterly; see note at sense B. 1.). Of a person, style, article, etc.: involved in, belonging to, or suitable for magazines and journals.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of

periodical1716

periodic1835

the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > periodical or recurring at regular intervals > of literary publications

periodical1766

society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [adjective]

periodical1766

1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 45. ⁋7 No Periodical Author..must effect to keep in vogue for any considerable time.

1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 260 Magazines and such periodical writings.

1806 R. Southey Let. to Lieut. Southey 5 Mar. (1865) He..knows good from bad, which is not very often the case with periodical critics.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. vi. 478 The Mercure Galant was a famous magazine of light periodical amusement.

1882 J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years I. xv. 259 Some [literary men] were selling their souls to the periodical press.

1955 R. D. Evans Atomic Nucleus xviii. 569 The Sixth General Assembly..unanimously recommended the use of the terms positon and negaton... However, common usage, as seen in the periodical literature, still tends to retain the ‘r’.

1990 Daughters of Sarah July–Aug. 34/1 To help women who are or were engaged in systems of prostitution, Whisper..publishes a periodical newsletter.

†6. Of or relating to a historical period or periods. In quot.: assuming a system divided into historical periods. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > [adjective]

epochal1685

periodical1825

eral1861

periodic1884

1825 R. Culbertson Lect. Revel. xiii. 184 All the periodical interpreters consider the Church of Ephesus as the hieroglyphic of the Universal or Catholic Church during the age of the Apostles.

B. n.

1. A magazine or journal issued at regular or stated intervals (usually weekly, monthly, or quarterly).In general use, the term periodical is now usually reserved for academic journals rather than popular publications; cf. magazine n. 6b. In Library Science, a periodical may be any publication issued at intervals in a continuous series without any intended final issue (i.e. not a serialization of a finite text), excepting newspapers and proceedings of societies.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun]

periodical1798

1798 J. Anderson in Washington's Writings (1893) XIV. 53 (note) It will be a monthly periodical.

1839 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 46 [To] get paid for contributions to periodicals.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 308/2 The sum expended annually in the streets for back numbers of periodicals amounts to upwards of £700.

1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. iv. 519 The ‘Gentleman's Magazine’..was speedily followed by..the ‘London Magazine’: and in 1750 there were eight periodicals of this kind.

1910 A. E. Bostwick Amer. Public Libr. 282 In some New York branches periodical reading rooms may be used as assembly rooms.

1941 T. S. Eliot Dry Salvages iii. 12 The passengers are settled To fruit, periodicals and business letters.

1994 P. Theroux Translating LA vi. 123 In the periodicals room off to the right, blond and Asian teenagers were retrieving copies of the Economist, Senior World, and YSB from the tables.

2002 Nation (N.Y.) 27 May 5/1 Periodicals on the left..have been deriding ‘identity politics’ as a suicidal strategy.

2. U.S. colloquial. A habitual drinking bout or spree. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout

cups1406

drinking?1518

banquet1535

Bacchanal1536

pot-revel1577

compotation1593

rouse1604

Bacchanalia1633

potmealc1639

bout1670

drinking-bout1673

carouse1690

carousal1765

drunk1779

bouse1786

toot1790

set-to1808

spree1811

fuddlea1813

screed1815

bust1834

lush1841

bender1846

bat1848

buster1848

burst1849

soak1851

binge1854

bumming1860

bust-out1861

bum1863

booze1864

drink1865

ran-tan1866

cupping1868

crawl1877

hellbender1877

break-away1885

periodical1886

jag1894

booze-up1897

slopping-up1899

souse1903

pub crawl1915

blind1917

beer-up1919

periodic1920

scoot1924

brannigan1927

rumba1934

boozeroo1943

sesh1943

session1943

piss-up1950

pink-eye1958

binge drinking1964

1886 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. 5/2 Are you in the book business?.. Ma and pa were talking last night about your having your little periodicals.

1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders x. 107 They telegraphed the Butte National to wire his description, and the answer was ‘tall and drunk’. Well, son, his periodicals wa'n't all.

†3. Astronomy. The periodic orbit of a celestial object. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [noun] > movement in orbit

revolutiona1393

periodical1892

1892 Ohio Statesman 3 May The superior planets..making their regular periodicals around the sun in their regular periods.

†4. An examination occurring periodically. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun]

examination1421

examen1612

probation1645

trial1672

exam1837

mug1853

special1890

mid-year1895

periodical1897

test1910

assessment1956

1897 E. Abbott & L. Campbell Life & Lett. Jowett II. v. 136 They were examined at their various ‘periodicals’ to test their progress.

Compounds

periodical cicada n. the North American cicada Magicicada septendecim, the nymphs of which emerge in large numbers on a seventeen-year (or, in the south, a thirteen-year) cycle; also called seventeen-year cicada, thirteen-year cicada.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae > cicada septemdecim (seventeen-year cicada)

seventeen-year locust1817

seventeen-year cicada1830

periodical cicada1876

1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 635 Professor Riley exhibited specimens of the periodical Cicada, in the pupal and perfect states.

1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xiii. 134 Brood X of the periodical cicada,.., which appeared in 1970, is the most widespread and abundant of the broods.

2002 Amer. Midland Naturalist 147 214 The widespread oviposition damage from periodical cicadas did not have any important effects on successional dynamics of the host plants.

† periodical colours n. Obsolete a series of coloured rings or bands due to the interference of light, in which the colours are repeated several times in the same order, e.g. Newton's rings.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > [noun] > spectrum > periodical colours

periodical colours1829

1829 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 119 307 The fifteen shaded rectangles, which are the minima of the new series of periodical colours which cross both the ordinary and the prismatic images.

1852 W. Whewell Astron. & Gen. Physics 87 We refer to the phenomena of diffraction, polarisation, and periodical colours, produced by crystals and thin plates.

periodical month n. Astronomy (now rare) a synodic month.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month

monthOE

lunation1398

moon1487

month of consecution in Astr1561

lunar month1594

lunary month1602

periodical month1603

month of progression1615

synodic month1669

1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. 428 If he account as Galen doeth, the Periodicall moneth to containe 27. daies and 8. houres.

1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 30 The time of a periodical month gave him the ratio of the versed sine of the arc of the Moon's orbit which she describes in one second, to the radius.

1846 J. Joyce Astron. in Sci. Dialogues xiv. 98 This is called the periodical month.

1954 Isis 45 352 Such evidences of instability as the apparent shortening of the moon's periodical month were used to refute the doctrine of the eternity of the world.

periodical stream n. a stream that flows and dries up in successive periods.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > intermittent

winterbourneeOE

sitchOE

sikec1330

eylebournc1480

vipseys1610

periodical stream1804

spruit1832

regime1837

wadi1839

skerth1851

khor1884

oued1920

chaung1945

jube1948

1804 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 II. ii. 42 Both these periodical streams are unsafe in the winter season.

1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. xi. 237 We encamped on..a periodical stream, in the gravelly bed of which fine spring-water could be obtained by digging.

1910 Geogr. Jrnl. 35 497 The settlement..is situated in a slight depression..on the banks of the periodical stream, the Hom, a tributary of the Orange river.

1999 S. E. Nicolson in W. M. Adams et al. Physical Geogr. Afr. 70 A periodical stream running through a vast plain of rushy grasses, swamps, springs, and periodical rivers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	periodical
释义	periodicaladj.n. Brit. /ˌpɪərɪˈɒdᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌpɪriˈɑdək(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s– periodical, 1600s periodicall. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin periodicus , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < classical Latin periodicus periodic adj.¹ + -al suffix¹. Compare post-classical Latin periodicalis recurring at regular intervals (a1350 in a British source). Compare later periodic adj.¹ A. adj. 1. a. Recurring at regular intervals; periodic adj.¹ 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > periodical or recurring at regular intervals continualc1530 periodical1585 termly1594 clock-like1609 terminal1610 stated1611 regular1639 periodic1661 clockwork1679 recursive1766 clockwork-like1875 tidal1876 seasonal1880 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > fevers of specific duration quotidiana1393 quartana1398 ephemera1528 quartern?1549 semitertian1565 ephemeral1576 periodical1585 typic1601 septimane1634 ephemeran1643 hemitritaean1651 nonan1657 quintan1657 septan1657 sextan1657 quartanary1669 subintrant1747 periodic1805 octan1835 typical1853 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. i. xlviii. 258 The inueterate Varix (which com[m]only keepeth some periodical turns of increasing and decreasing) must be opened and vented in his periodes. 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) (at cited word) An Ague is called a Periodical disease, because it keeps a just time of its return. 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 95 The Females of these have periodical Visits like Females of the Human Race. 1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) II. 224 The rains, as in the other countries situated under the tropics, are periodical. 1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy xii. 381 Among the stars are several which..undergo a regular periodical increase and diminution of lustre... These are called periodical stars. 1881 Nature 27 Oct. 613/2 These [sun] spots as to their frequency and magnitude appear to be subject to a periodical inequality. 1920 Act 10 & 11 George V c. 33 §10 The expression ‘maintenance order’ means an order other than an order of affiliation for the periodical payment of sums of money towards the maintenance of the wife or other dependants. 1991 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 615/1 The Health Services for the Elderly Act 1982 has provided for six health services..for all people in any area of Japan who..are not offered periodical health examinations at their place of work. b. Recurring or reappearing intermittently; occasional. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. iii. 38 Intermittent fevers which the Greeks call Periodicall. 1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 408 The hoarse, deep, periodical croak of the cormorants. 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 236 Many viviparous animals are subject to periodical venereal orgasm. ?a1875 G. L. Meredith Adventuring in Maoriland (1935) 64 A bailed-up pig makes periodical rushes at the baiting dogs. 1934 B. Lehmann Rumour of Heaven i. ii. 22 Mrs. Humble took advantage of that time of stress to make one of her periodical announcements that she was leaving. 2003 Scots Mag. Feb. 182/2 The landlords chose this moment to impose one of their periodical rent rises. 2. Astronomy. = periodic adj.¹ 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [adjective] > movement in orbit periodical1603 periodic1650 revolutional1652 orbitual1806 orbital1846 orbituary1864 orbiting1951 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1024 Nature..determined motion with periodicall revolutions. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) The Periodical Motion of the Moon, is that whereby she finishes her Course round about the Earth in a Month. 1734 tr. P. L. M. de Maupertuis Diss. Cœlestial Bodies 37 in J. Keill Exam. Burnet's Theory of Earth (ed. 2) The Periodical times of the Planets. 1846 J. Joyce Astron. in Sci. Dialogues xiv. 98 This is called the periodical month. 1954 Isis 45 352 Such evidences of instability as the apparent shortening of the moon's periodical month were used to refute the doctrine of the eternity of the world. 3. Of verbal or written style: characterized by the use of rhetorical periods (period n. 16); elevated, formal, ornamental. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [adjective] > period periodical1683 periodic1701 1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 335 Nazianzen's [style] is..more sententious and periodical. 1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 4. ⁋4 Your high nonsense..is loud and sonorous, smooth and periodical. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. iv. 103 The author..would refer..to the beginnings of his Hermes and his Philosophical Arrangements, where some attempts have been made in this periodical style. 1834 N. Amer. Rev. July 37 A certain poetical chemistry to concentrate, to fuse, to sublime the style and to separate its measures from the rhythm of periodical prose. 1944 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 24 212 He uses involved periodical sentences; his paragraphs consist of the most diverse materials placed side by side. 1979 P. de Man Allegories of Reading xii. 289 Classical rhetoric mentions anacoluthon especially with regard to the structure of periodical sentences, when a shift..occurs between the first part of the period..and the second part. 2000 J. Torrens in W. Cleary Selving x. 88 We took as model John Henry Newman who, with the page-long sentences of his oration..led us into the thickets of Ciceronian periodical style. †4. Mathematics. Of, relating to, or expressed in periods (period n. 18). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > relating to mathematical property simple1570 dissevered1605 periodicala1690 irreductible1753 analytical1799 analytic1800 compound1806 well-conditioned1843 one-valued1884 non-empty1905 well-behaved1912 minimax1917 irredundant1925 non-linear1930 constructive1938 extremal1939 max-min1949 meta-analytic1968 meta-analytic1978 a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 15 The Periodical Division shews the thousandth place of the Number. 5. Of a magazine, journal, etc.: published at regular intervals (usually weekly, monthly or quarterly; see note at sense B. 1.). Of a person, style, article, etc.: involved in, belonging to, or suitable for magazines and journals. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of periodical1716 periodic1835 the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > periodical or recurring at regular intervals > of literary publications periodical1766 society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [adjective] periodical1766 1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 45. ⁋7 No Periodical Author..must effect to keep in vogue for any considerable time. 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 260 Magazines and such periodical writings. 1806 R. Southey Let. to Lieut. Southey 5 Mar. (1865) He..knows good from bad, which is not very often the case with periodical critics. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. vi. 478 The Mercure Galant was a famous magazine of light periodical amusement. 1882 J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years I. xv. 259 Some [literary men] were selling their souls to the periodical press. 1955 R. D. Evans Atomic Nucleus xviii. 569 The Sixth General Assembly..unanimously recommended the use of the terms positon and negaton... However, common usage, as seen in the periodical literature, still tends to retain the ‘r’. 1990 Daughters of Sarah July–Aug. 34/1 To help women who are or were engaged in systems of prostitution, Whisper..publishes a periodical newsletter. †6. Of or relating to a historical period or periods. In quot.: assuming a system divided into historical periods. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [adjective] epochal1685 periodical1825 eral1861 periodic1884 1825 R. Culbertson Lect. Revel. xiii. 184 All the periodical interpreters consider the Church of Ephesus as the hieroglyphic of the Universal or Catholic Church during the age of the Apostles. B. n. 1. A magazine or journal issued at regular or stated intervals (usually weekly, monthly, or quarterly).In general use, the term periodical is now usually reserved for academic journals rather than popular publications; cf. magazine n. 6b. In Library Science, a periodical may be any publication issued at intervals in a continuous series without any intended final issue (i.e. not a serialization of a finite text), excepting newspapers and proceedings of societies. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] periodical1798 1798 J. Anderson in Washington's Writings (1893) XIV. 53 (note) It will be a monthly periodical. 1839 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 46 [To] get paid for contributions to periodicals. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 308/2 The sum expended annually in the streets for back numbers of periodicals amounts to upwards of £700. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. iv. 519 The ‘Gentleman's Magazine’..was speedily followed by..the ‘London Magazine’: and in 1750 there were eight periodicals of this kind. 1910 A. E. Bostwick Amer. Public Libr. 282 In some New York branches periodical reading rooms may be used as assembly rooms. 1941 T. S. Eliot Dry Salvages iii. 12 The passengers are settled To fruit, periodicals and business letters. 1994 P. Theroux Translating LA vi. 123 In the periodicals room off to the right, blond and Asian teenagers were retrieving copies of the Economist, Senior World, and YSB from the tables. 2002 Nation (N.Y.) 27 May 5/1 Periodicals on the left..have been deriding ‘identity politics’ as a suicidal strategy. 2. U.S. colloquial. A habitual drinking bout or spree. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout cups1406 drinking?1518 banquet1535 Bacchanal1536 pot-revel1577 compotation1593 rouse1604 Bacchanalia1633 potmealc1639 bout1670 drinking-bout1673 carouse1690 carousal1765 drunk1779 bouse1786 toot1790 set-to1808 spree1811 fuddlea1813 screed1815 bust1834 lush1841 bender1846 bat1848 buster1848 burst1849 soak1851 binge1854 bumming1860 bust-out1861 bum1863 booze1864 drink1865 ran-tan1866 cupping1868 crawl1877 hellbender1877 break-away1885 periodical1886 jag1894 booze-up1897 slopping-up1899 souse1903 pub crawl1915 blind1917 beer-up1919 periodic1920 scoot1924 brannigan1927 rumba1934 boozeroo1943 sesh1943 session1943 piss-up1950 pink-eye1958 binge drinking1964 1886 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. 5/2 Are you in the book business?.. Ma and pa were talking last night about your having your little periodicals. 1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders x. 107 They telegraphed the Butte National to wire his description, and the answer was ‘tall and drunk’. Well, son, his periodicals wa'n't all. †3. Astronomy. The periodic orbit of a celestial object. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [noun] > movement in orbit revolutiona1393 periodical1892 1892 Ohio Statesman 3 May The superior planets..making their regular periodicals around the sun in their regular periods. †4. An examination occurring periodically. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] examination1421 examen1612 probation1645 trial1672 exam1837 mug1853 special1890 mid-year1895 periodical1897 test1910 assessment1956 1897 E. Abbott & L. Campbell Life & Lett. Jowett II. v. 136 They were examined at their various ‘periodicals’ to test their progress. Compounds periodical cicada n. the North American cicada Magicicada septendecim, the nymphs of which emerge in large numbers on a seventeen-year (or, in the south, a thirteen-year) cycle; also called seventeen-year cicada, thirteen-year cicada. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae > cicada septemdecim (seventeen-year cicada) seventeen-year locust1817 seventeen-year cicada1830 periodical cicada1876 1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 635 Professor Riley exhibited specimens of the periodical Cicada, in the pupal and perfect states. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xiii. 134 Brood X of the periodical cicada,.., which appeared in 1970, is the most widespread and abundant of the broods. 2002 Amer. Midland Naturalist 147 214 The widespread oviposition damage from periodical cicadas did not have any important effects on successional dynamics of the host plants. † periodical colours n. Obsolete a series of coloured rings or bands due to the interference of light, in which the colours are repeated several times in the same order, e.g. Newton's rings. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > [noun] > spectrum > periodical colours periodical colours1829 1829 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 119 307 The fifteen shaded rectangles, which are the minima of the new series of periodical colours which cross both the ordinary and the prismatic images. 1852 W. Whewell Astron. & Gen. Physics 87 We refer to the phenomena of diffraction, polarisation, and periodical colours, produced by crystals and thin plates. periodical month n. Astronomy (now rare) a synodic month. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month monthOE lunation1398 moon1487 month of consecution in Astr1561 lunar month1594 lunary month1602 periodical month1603 month of progression1615 synodic month1669 1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. 428 If he account as Galen doeth, the Periodicall moneth to containe 27. daies and 8. houres. 1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 30 The time of a periodical month gave him the ratio of the versed sine of the arc of the Moon's orbit which she describes in one second, to the radius. 1846 J. Joyce Astron. in Sci. Dialogues xiv. 98 This is called the periodical month. 1954 Isis 45 352 Such evidences of instability as the apparent shortening of the moon's periodical month were used to refute the doctrine of the eternity of the world. periodical stream n. a stream that flows and dries up in successive periods. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > intermittent winterbourneeOE sitchOE sikec1330 eylebournc1480 vipseys1610 periodical stream1804 spruit1832 regime1837 wadi1839 skerth1851 khor1884 oued1920 chaung1945 jube1948 1804 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 II. ii. 42 Both these periodical streams are unsafe in the winter season. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. xi. 237 We encamped on..a periodical stream, in the gravelly bed of which fine spring-water could be obtained by digging. 1910 Geogr. Jrnl. 35 497 The settlement..is situated in a slight depression..on the banks of the periodical stream, the Hom, a tributary of the Orange river. 1999 S. E. Nicolson in W. M. Adams et al. Physical Geogr. Afr. 70 A periodical stream running through a vast plain of rushy grasses, swamps, springs, and periodical rivers. 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