单词 | peptonoid |
释义 | peptonoidn. Now historical. A substance consisting of food that has been partially predigested. Also: (figurative) a text, statement, etc., whose meaning is evident or directly expressed. ΚΠ 1876 A. C. Cowperthwaite Insanity in its Medico-legal Relations 242 The food should be..easily digested. A choice can be made of Panopepton, liquid peptonoids, [etc.]. 1898 Science 23 Dec. 894/2 The synthesis of such a peptone or peptonoid marks a distinct step forward in synthetical work. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 1/3 Easier still is it to renounce the lecturer's peptonoids, and to take instead a course of plays, plays in which the playwright..is well-advised enough to leave to the audience the drawing of conclusions, the finding of morals. 2001 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 5 Aug. g1 The doctors intravenously administered ‘curatives’ that included salt solution, adrenaline, coffee, clam broth, liquid peptonoids, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876 |
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