单词 | plerotic |
释义 | pleroticadj.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations to heal or generate tissue > [adjective] > regenerating flesh regenerativea1400 agglutinative1585 agglutinant1684 anaplerotic1721 anticachectic1773 plerotic1775 paratriptic1887 anaplerotical- 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Plerotic..suited to fill up a wound with flesh. 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Plerosis,..of or belonging to Plerosis: plerotic. 2. Mycology. Of an oospore, esp. in the family Pythiaceae: filling the whole oogonium. Occasionally also: designating a fungus with such oospores. ΚΠ 1931 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 18 483 Species with plerotic oöspores..can be differentiated readily from all of the species..with smooth but aplerotic oöspores. 1969 New Phytologist 68 755 Oogonium size may be helpful in checking specific diagnoses, especially when the oospore is plerotic and oospore measurements are lacking. 2003 Australasian Plant Pathol. 32 455 Australian isolates of P. sulcatum are plerotic, whereas the type is aplerotic. 3. gen. (esp. in the context of rites and rituals). That exhibits fullness or completeness; involving fulfilment or completion. Cf. plerosis n. 2. ΚΠ 1970 J. Needham Clerks & Craftsmen in China & West xix. 404 We propose for their [sc. hsü and shih, piao and li] equivalents respectively ‘eremotic, plerotic, patefact and subdite’. 1979 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 99 423/2 Once the rites of kenosis were completed..it was necessary to signal..the rebirth of..growth through rites of plerosis... The first of the plerotic rites were those of invigoration. 1984 S. S. Friedman Oberammergau Passion Play ii. 14 Plerotic rites..served the purpose of ‘filling’, through mating, sexual activity, magic, or purgation. 1999 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 119 405/2 A process whereby plerotic, ‘full’ words..change to kenotic, ‘empty’ ones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1775 |
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