poly-comb. form

1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 483 By a Polyphone or Polyacoustick well order'd one Sound may be heard as many, either of the same or a different Note.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Polyacousticks, are Instruments contrived to Multiply Sounds, as Multiplying glasses or Polyscopes do Images of Objects.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Polyacoustick, adj., that multiplies or magnifies sounds.

1862 Mem. Literary & Philos. Soc. Manch. 3rd Ser. 1 249 A method for the derivation of the ∆ faced polyacrons of a given number of summits from those of the next inferior number of summits.

1929 D. M. Y. Sommerville Introd. Geom. N Dimensions vii. 102 To distinguish between a polytope considered with respect to its faces and its vertices, we may call it in the latter case a polycorypha. [Note] Cayley uses the term polyacron.

1886 R. von Lendenfeld in Proc. Zool. Soc. 560 Anaxonia. Without definite axes and with numerous rays—polyact.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4599/2 Polyactinal, many-rayed; multiradiate; in sponges, polyact.

1967 Jrnl. Paleontol. 41 511 (title) A new polyactinal sponge from the Antelope Valley Formation (Ordovician) in the Toquima Range, Nevada.

1995 Biol. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 55 1 The current differences in shape between both spicule types are considered the result of a divergent morphological evolution from an ancestral polyactinal corpuscle.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 813/1 Fig. 5 A, typical polyactine.

1832 Philol. Museum 1 312 Any advocate of the polyadamite doctrine, as it has been called.

1899 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Polyadenopathy, term for simultaneous disease of several lymphatic glands.

1995 Jrnl. Med. & Vet. Mycol. 33 67 We present a 45-year-old man who presented with juvenile type disease [sc. paracoccidioidomycosis] characterized by intra-abdominal polyadenopathy forming a large epigastric mass.

1888 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VI. 396/2 Polyæsthesia, is a rare disturbance of sensation..in which the point of a pin, when applied to the skin, is felt as two or more points.

1994 Dorland's Illustr. Med Dict. (ed. 28) 1620/2 Remak's s[ymptom], either polyesthesia or a prolongation of the lapse of time before a stimulus is perceived, seen in tabes dorsalis.

a1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Polyaesthetic, belonging to, or exhibiting, Polyaesthesia.

1893 Nation (N.Y.) 5 Jan. 15/3 Any such hackneyed creation as an Osric of the emotions, without depth, or a poly-affectioned Lothario.

1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) iv. 98 The suffix -al is polyallomorphic /əl/ and /æl/.

1972 Archivum Linguisticum 3 40 In order to simplify their analysis one of the allomorphs of poly-allomorphic morphemes is designated as the basic one, and the changes are described on that basis.

1927 Daily Express 24 Nov. 13 The ‘polyalphabetic’ codes..are much more difficult to decipher, as a letter is often represented in a cryptogram by a dozen different signs, letters or numerals.

1988 D. Welsh Codes & Cryptogr. vii. 106 A first requisite of a ‘safe’ system is that it be polyalphabetic, so that the encipherment of a specific symbol changes as the plaintext is being encoded.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4600/1 Polyarthrous, having many joints or jointed parts; multiarticulate.

1874 W. H. Van Buren & E. L. Keyes Pract. Treat. Surg. Dis. Genito-urinary Organs 86 Associated with the poly-articular variety of gonorrhœal rheumatism.

1957 Ann. Rheumatic Dis. 16 236/2 The cases were kept under observation for 6 months or more after the onset, but none developed typical polyarticular changes.

1994 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 10 Dec. b9/3 In later stages systemic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis may evolve into the polyarticular form of the condition.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4600/1 Polyaxial, having several axes.

1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) B. 187 236 The polyaxial septal segment... The septal growth-segment is represented by a large number of trabecular parts at various angles.

1997 Canad. Jrnl. Bot. 75 145 (title) Polyaxial development in homeotic flowers of three begonia cultivars.

1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 416/2 Desma of an anomocladine Lithistid (polyaxon).

1940 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates I. vi. 299 Polyaxons..are spicules in which several equal rays radiate from a central point.

1898 Nature 27 Jan. 310/2 A fauna capable of living and developing at depths of over 2000 metres, to which the name polybathic is given.

1823 J. Kenney Sweethearts & Wives ii. i. 37 There's polybigamy! here's a young Blue Beard!—Meet in the garden, will they?

1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1885) 37 (note) A great polybigamy case.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4600/1 Polybranch, a., having many gills or numerous branchiæ, as a mollusk or crustacean; of or pertaining to the Polybranchia or Polybranchiata; n., a polybranch mollusk or crustacean.

1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 322/1 Gastropods, are divided into..1. Nudibranchians (Anthrobranchians and Polybranchians).

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4600/2 Polybranchian, a. and n., same as polybranch.

1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 995/1 Polybranchiatus, applied by Blainville to an Order (Polybranchiata..) of the Paracephalophora; by Gray to an Order..of the Gasteropoda..; by Latreille to an Order of the Cirripedes..: polybranchiate.

1988 Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 21 228 Most polybranchiate hagfishes collected near Valparaiso have been placed in synonymy with Bdellostoma polytrema.

1846 R. Chambers Trad. Edinb. 300 The little polybuttoned personages.

1874 C. H. Hitchcock Geol. New Hampsh. i. 445 Such is not the way that the diatom grows, for it is not a polycellular, but a unicellular organism.

1962 Systematic Zool. 11 173 The spore is of polycellular type, being built up by cells forming the valves, cnidoblasts, and sporoplasm itself.

2003 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Dec. 16 Even if life did get started on some other planet,..we should anticipate it to be monocellular slime, rather than polycellular animals.

1872 S. E. Warren Elem. Machine Constr. & Drawing 212 Curves of double curvature, may well be called curves of three dimensions; to distinguish them, first, from compound curves, like polycentral arch curves.

1907 Nature 21 Feb. 398/2 There were seven distinct centres of destructive violence, and..the earthquake was a true polycentral one.

2000 ABI/Inform Regional Stud. (Nexis) Feb. By integrating part of the southern hemisphere into a polycentral structure, VW would be able to offer a new variant of the global configuration.

1706 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2107 Prophylactic and Polycharactaristick [sic] Statues.

1942 W. B. Kimmel (title of Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Rochester, N.Y.) Polychoral music and the Venetian school.

1975 Gramophone Nov. 869/3 In 1628, Salzburg Cathedral was re-opened... Its inaugural Mass was a grand polychoral affair.

2001 Slavic Rev. 60 895 The Baroque polychoral concerto, which preceded the Italianate sacred choral concerto.

1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 175 Etærio, Mirb.—(‘Polychorion, Mirb.;’ Polysecus, Desvaux; Amalthea, Desv.; Erythrostomum, Desvaux).

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 913/1 Polychorion, a polycarpous fruit like that of Ranunculus.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4600/3 Polychorionic, having the character of a polychorion.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 61 The hæmoglobin liberated leads to an increased formation and excretion of bile pigments (polychromia).

1883 H. T. Edwards in Church Times 22 10/1 When a chapel is in debt, the Polychurch hierarchy furiously rage against the Church.

1883 H. T. Edwards in Church Times 21 971/1 The large sums which they [sc. the Welsh] spend upon ‘Poly~churchism’.

1908 Times 11 Aug. 7/6 It is not so much our [Anglican] belief in episcopacy as their [Nonconformist] belief in polychurchism.

1893 Church Times 24 Nov. 12/7 I may perhaps be accused of only giving one half of the argument used by polychurchists.

1907 N.E.D. at Poly- Polychurchist.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4601/2 Polycoccous, having several cocci: said of a dry pericarp whose lobes separate at maturity.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4601/2 Polycœlian, having several cœliæ; of or pertaining to the Polycœlia.

1899 Nature 9 Nov. 28/1 Polycormic forms are met with in cypresses and junipers, in which the lateral branches are not all reduced to subordinate and graduated positions.

2000 Jrnl. Ecol. 88 915/2 The tree habit is monocormic or polycormic, particularly if subjected to grazing pressure.

1946 Amer. Naturalist 80 444 The combining ability of clonal lines..may be tested by the so-called polycross method.

1977 Crop Sci. 17 909/2 Twenty-one clones whose polycross progenies ranked high for rate of seedling emergence..were selected for this study.

1992 Theoret. & Appl. Genetics 83 752 (title) Frequency-dependent male reproductive success in a polycross of Douglas fir.

1937 Chem. Rev. 21 39 The simple variation of acidic and coördinating groups in the polydentate molecules has escaped investigation.

1961 G. R. Choppin Exper. Nucl. Chem. ix. 147 Complexes with a high degree of covalent character are formed by the interaction of metal ions with polydentate organic ions.

1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 6654/1 The polyhydroxylated ouabain molecule serves as a polydentate ligand to inorganic species.

1876 Tinsley's Mag. 18 150 Whether we cast in our lot with Bishop Butler or the Polydiabolicals.

1876 Tinsley's Mag. 18 149 Why has no interesting heretic gone in for Polydiabolism?

1876 Tinsley's Mag. 18 150 The polydiabolists would put it in the plural, and say evil spirits.

1894 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 41 28 The evolution of the horse's leg from a polydigital extremity to its present form.

1955 Times 15 Dec. 11/5 A recent correspondent wanted..to coin the word ‘polydigital’. Could we not have a field day, and coin the word ‘multidactylic’ as well?

1884 Nature 1 May 24/2 L. Martin, on the poly~dimensional argument.

1935 Philos. Sci. 2 98 Geometrical analogies..serve to illustrate the historical relations of our poly-dimensional..yet unitary structural organization of knowledge and thought.

1995 J. Fentress in U. Eco Search for Perfect Lang. (1997) xiv. 278 An encyclopedia would be a work that was..polydimensional and mixed, organized..more according to ‘pathways’ than by a classification by subject matters.

1875 F. P. Cobbe False Beasts & True 190 Polydoggery is a thing against which all proper feeling revolts.

1899 Daily News 28 Oct. 7/5 Poly-doggery is already a consecrated word.

1866 J. Lubbock in Trans. Linn. Soc. 25 490 The dimorphism thus produced differs in many important respects from the dimorphism of the mature form which we find, for instance, in ants and bees; it would therefore be convenient to distinguish it by a different name; and I have ventured to suggest the terms Dieidism and Polyeidism.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Polyelectronic, containing two or more electrons.

1939 L. Pauling Nature Chem. Bond i. 29 The electron distribution function for a poly-electronic atom or ion shows the presence of electron shells as regions of maximum electron density.

1995 D. M. P. Mingos Essent. Inorg. Chem. (1997) 75 In polyelectronic atoms it is assumed that the angular parts of the wave functions are identical to those of the hydrogen atom..but the radial part is altered.

1965 Amer. Surgeon 31 695 (heading) Polyendocrine adenomatosis with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

1992 Lancet 27 June 1559/1 Patients with the rare autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1..typically have antibodies directed against extra-adrenal steroid-producing organs as well as adrenal cortex.

1964 Medicine 43 176/1 It is suggested that Schmidt's syndrome with diabetes mellitus may be a polyendocrinopathy.

1997 Clin. & Exper. Immunol. 107 341 None of 17 patients with polyendocrinopathy, but without Addison's disease, had 21—OH—A6 [sc. 21-hydroxylase autoantibodies].

1911 New Phytologist 10 99 The nuclei of this group [sc. Protozoa] are not all comparable with one another; we have, in Hartmann's terminology, monoenergid and polyenergid nuclei.

1939 Nature 14 Jan. 47/2 Schussnig..reaffirms..his view that the Conjugales are derived from a polyenergid ancestry, and a similar origin is suggested for the Red Algæ.

1976 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 44 Free nuclear divisions, that is, divisions not accompanied by cell division, occur in those Thallophyta showing the polyenergid condition.

1892 J. A. Thomson Outl. Zool. xiii. 239 It is a poly-enzymatic gland, that is, one which produces diverse digestive ferments.

1981 Biomedicine 34 82 The polyenzymatic activation which accounts for cell lysis is a general defense mechanism.

1998 Jrnl. Antibiotics 51 1709 Peptaibols are..biosynthesized in complex mixtures of closely related analogues by a polyenzymatic pathway.

a1832 J. Bentham Ess. Lang. vi, in Wks. (1843) VIII. 333/1 This proposition will consist of one word only, or of divers words,—will be either monoepic or polyepic.

1889 J. S. Burdon-Sanderson in Nature 26 Sept. 524/1 Plant protoplasm, though it may be structurally homogeneous, is dynamically polyergic—it has many endowments.

1900 I. B. Balfour tr. C. E. von Goebel Organogr. Plants I. i. 24 A polyergic plant is either an energid-colony or cœnobium (cellular or non-cellular) in which..each energid is capable of living for itself; or the energids exhibit a division of labour and..form an energid-dominion.

1965 Science 30 July 546/1 The phenomena associated with castes in social insects can be classified as anatomical polymorphism, biochemical polymorphism, and polyethism (variation in behaviour resulting in division of labour).

1994 P. J. Gullan & P. S. Cranston Insects xi. 299/2 Often there is an age polyethism: newly emerged workers tend to remain in the nest engaged in construction and food distribution.

1888 Daily News 22 Sept. 1/2 For purposes of communication and for interchange of ideas the polyglott, poly-ethnic Indian continent has become one country.

1994 Crit. Intelligence Aug. 12/3 Their view had been that America was too polyethnic and too complex.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 311/2 There is no proportion observed between the polyfenestral building itself, and the range of columns stuck up against it.

1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Polyfoile, an ornament, like a leaf, of many round lobes.

1907 N.E.D. at Poly- Polyfoil, a.

1983 Econ. Geogr. 59 439/1 In the real world, where empirically derived polyfoils are usually quite assymetrical [sic], this seldom happens.

1812 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 8 97 The title of this poly~grammar must not be admitted as a proof that he was qualified for the task which he undertook.

1863 Times 6 Nov. 7/2 It consists of polygroove rifling, but the breech-loading is not essential, you say?

1886 Field 9 Jan. 54/3 Greatly improved the shooting of the old muzzle-loading polygroove.

1997 Independent (Nexis) 1 Mar. 19 A revolutionary field artillery system, the notable features of which were breech loading, polygroove rifling and elongated, fused projectiles.

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 403 They will shoot as well as poly-grooved rifles.

1879 Times 22 Sept. 10/3 Cargoes of the lead-coated projectiles adapted to the poly-grooved rifling of the guns have been previously sent and more are to follow.

1885 W. G. Binney Man. Amer. Land Shells in Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 28. 55 Family Stenogyridæ... Shell generally elongated, polygyral, shing, translucent or calcareous, striate.

1935 Y. Katayama in Japanese Jrnl. Bot. 7 374 The writer has classified (though provisionally) the haploid plants as follows... If the haploid has occurred from allopolyploids, it is classified under the name of polyhaploid.

1950 Bot. Gaz. 112 103/1 If the polyhaploid parent were homozygous for self-incompatibility alleles R_aR_a, all of the offspring..would have this allele.

1975 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 62 243/2 Polyhaploid derivatives may occur in nature.

1994 Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 155 475/2 The polyhaploids of Astralagus cicer originated from seeds with octaploid–tetraploid twin embryos.

1887 Science 2 Dec. 269/2 Normal thought is thus a ‘poly-ideism’, while attention is a ‘mono-ideism’.

1999 E. Nijenhuis & O. van der Hart in J. Goodwin & R. Attias Splintered Reflections i. iv. 109 Somnambulistic states are..organized around one single fixed idea (monoideism) or around a limited set of related fixed ideas (polyideism).

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 333 Single or poly-laminated [Ger. mehrschichtigen] cylindrical, and ciliated epithelia.

1999 New Phytologist 143 26/1 The lamina..can be conveniently modelled as a stress-skin panel or a polylaminated sandwich board.

1972 B. Bickerton in Georgetown Univ. Ser. Lang. & Linguistics (1973) xxv. 34 The demonstration of similarities between Black English and Guyanese Creole..was simply a by-product of the attempt to write a polylectal grammar of the latter.

1994 Lang. in Society 33 465 The clear correspondence between Bhatia's ‘polylectal’ view of Hindi..and work on cross-linguistic variation.

1917 Bot. Gaz. 63 314 The original or normal bees are polylectic.

1967 Evolution 21 633/1 The lowered active insect population, especially of the more polylectic plant feeders (scarab beetles, phytophagous Hemiptera..) reduces the possibility of the flowers, fruits, and seeds being consumed.

2003 Grana 42 244 These bees can be considered more as narrowly polylectic than oligolectic because they collect pollen from a few unrelated species.

1917 Bot. Gaz. 63 314 In a considerable number of polyleges the flight of the males is quite different from that of the females.

1996 Ecol. Monogr. 66 235 Polyleges showed a high intraspecific flexibility regarding the organs used for pollen uptake from flowers of a different architecture.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Logic (1860) I. xviii. 352 If the disjunction has only two members, the syllogism is then called a dilemma..; if more than four it is..usually called polylemma (multicornis).

1987 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 May 46/1 Today's ‘medical consumers’ are confronted not by a dilemma but by a polylemma: a vast number of possibilities, each with advantages and assurances, disadvantages and dangers.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 915/2 Polylepidous, having many scales.

1979 Angewandte-Informatik 21 249 The AGF plotfile is a sequential file for storage and transportation of graphics information. It contains records describing graphics primitives (points, vectors, polylines, texts) and their attributes.

1987 PC Week (Nexis) 7 July 83 The poly-line is similar, except that it can be ‘smoothed’ so that the object becomes a continuous curve.

2000 Struct. Engin. 1 Feb. 40/3 An option allows ordinary AutoCAD lines and polylines to be converted into structural member and slab objects.

1857 (title) The polylingual journal: a magazine in five languages.

1997 Amer. Speech 72 119 Mixed-race French speakers were essential members of that expedition [sc. Lewis & Clark], their lore and polylingual talents being crucial to its success.

1939 Amer. Anthropologist 41 599 The Natchez, since losing their tribal unity nearly two centuries ago, are notable for their polylingualism.

1996 Classical Q. New Ser. 46 536 Strategius' polylingualism certainly made him a notable imperial officer.

1749 J. Gwynne Ess. Design 91 Their Language..will fix the Attention of a sensible native American, as well as of the most accomplished Polylinguist.

1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester II. xix. 232 An old friend..famous as polylinguist, philologist, archæologist.

1987 19th-cent. Lit. 42 59 Wilfred..is the novel's pre-eminent polylinguist, having learned not only Norman but Saracen and perhaps Spanish and Latin as well.

1977 Science 8 Apr. 180/1 Cloning would provide a means of obtaining a steady supply of more linkers. However, ‘polylinker’ clones have not yet been obtained, perhaps because of in vivo instabilities.

2002 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 184 4177 The first vector, pPL1..contains a useful polylinker, [and] can be directly conjugated from Escherichia coli into L. monocytogenes.

1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 368/1 Polylithic statues, or those composed of several stones.

1908 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 25 Jan. 61/1 These crevices and fissures are filled with a polylithic mass of brown and white ‘calcic spar’.

1961 Economist 11 Nov. 538/2 Somewhere in the essentially ‘polylithic’ variety of the sisterhood there must be an answer.

2003 Canad. Mineral. 41 353 The Lodestar prospect in eastern Newfoundland contains significant concentrations of Au within sulfide-mineralized, polylithic, magmatic–hydrothermal breccias.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 117 Small round cells with polylobular and fragmented nuclei.

2003 Pediatric Pathol. & Molecular Med. 22 405 Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a polylobular mass.

1839 Fraser's Mag. 20 709 Freely dispensing light from the huge polylychnous gas-burners to a whole neighbourhood.

1855 J. Tyndall in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 9 425 The polymagnet was devised for the purpose of exhibiting before a class of pupils as many as possible of the phænomena of electro-magnetism and diamagnetism.

1828 Lancet 19 Apr. 73/2 Dr. Epps enumerated monomania; that is, when one faculty is affected: polymania where more than one faculty is deranged.

1994 I. McDonald Necroville (1995) 254 The concentration drugs induced a non-specific polymania, anything and everything became compellingly fascinating.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4604/2 Polymastigate, having more than four flagella, as an infusorian; pluriflagellate.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4604/2 Polymastigous, same as polymastigate.

1892 Dental Rec. 12 488 Amalgams consist of the combination of either one or several metals with mercury,..the bulk of a polymetallic amalgam usually consisting of Tin and Silver.

1956 Mineral. Abstr. 13 38 Nests and lenses of plumbojarosite are found in the oxidized zone of polymetallic ore deposits.

1991 New Scientist 12 Oct. 36/1 UNCLOS provisions designed for nodule mining would have to be adapted to the different conditions prevailing in mining polymetallic sulphides.

1890 Times 20 Jan. 10/2 Polymetallism is the thing to go for in that case.

1973 Science 30 Nov. 879/3 I will briefly describe..early copper metallurgy, before turning to polymetallism and metallurgy generally.

2001 Jrnl. Planar Chromatography 14 426 Knowledge of the composition of an incorporated alloy is a precondition for avoiding polymetallism in subsequent prosthetic treatment.

1888 Nature 13 Dec. 151/2 Most muscles, Fuerbringer argues, are polymetameric, i.e. they receive nervous fibres from two or more spinal roots.

1888 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 9 144 If then..the rhetoricians do consider the participle as an element of style, and if they are right in so considering it, oligometochia and polymetochia cannot be neglected by us.

1907 N.E.D. at Pycno- Pycnometochia, the close connexion or frequent use of participles or participial phrases; polymetochia.

1888 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 9 147 Note also that the Ολυμπιακός is polymetochic.

1900 H. W. Smyth Greek Melic Poets p. lvii The periods [in the dithyramb] were disjointed..and polymetochic: the heaping of participles added pomp and rapidity.

1829 W. Greenfield (title) Polymicrian Greek lexicon to the New Testament.

1899 W. I. Knapp Life G. Borrow I. 70 A small 4to volume..in his polymicrian handwriting.

1878 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 28 Sept. 2267 We owe to the kindness of Professor Joseph von Lenhossek..a pamphlet describing an apparatus which he calls a Poly-Microscope.

1938 Mem. Geol. Soc. Amer. 6 134 Except for a few monomineral fabrics, such as those of pure quartzite.., most rock fabrics are polymineral.

1975 Nature 25 Dec. 690/1 The minerals have been identified in light-coloured, millimetre-sized polymineral inclusions present in carbonaceous chondrites.

1999 I. Kostov & R. I. Kostov Crystal Habits Minerals iii. 31 A crystallosymmetric analysis of complex systems has been suggested for studies of minerals, [and] polymineral objects (meteorites, rocks, ore systems, [etc.]).

1960 Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Surv. b458/2 Unimineralic beds of anhydrite or gypsum..are common; polymineralic beds are rarer.

1999 Amer. Antiq. 64 77/1 They [sc. luminescence tests] can be applied to either monomineralic samples (quartz or feldspar grains) or polymineralic samples (mixture of quartz and feldspar).

1949 E. A. Nida Morphology (ed. 2) iv. 97 Simple [word] structures may be called ‘monomorphemic’ and complex structures ‘polymorphemic’.

1986 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 31 171 Polymorphemic words are translated morphemically into a blend of standard English gloss..and semantic classification.

1933 Lancet 24 June 1338/1 In ‘polymyalgia’ and polyarthritis of various kinds it is exceedingly common to meet with tendonitis.

1957 H. S. Barber in Ann. Rheumatic Dis. 16 237/2 (1) A condition characterized by widespread muscular pains without arthritis but accompanied by a high erythrocyte sedimentation rate and occasional pyrexia is described. (2) The relationship to rheumatoid disease is discussed and it is concluded that this is probably a clinical entity within the rheumatic group of diseases. (3) It is proposed to term the syndrome ‘polymyalgia rheumatica’.

1971 Boyle & Buchanan Clin. Rheumatol. xvi. 434/2 Polymyalgia rheumatica..affects subjects in the later years of life, the average age of onset being the late sixties.

1998 Postgrad. Med. Jrnl. 74 170 Giant cell arteritis commonly presents with headache, polymyalgia, and visual signs and symptoms.

1877 tr. A. Eulenburg in tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XIV. 133 The disease consists in an essentially inflammatory process, a ‘polymyositis chronica progressiva’.

1958 J. N. Walton & R. D. Adams Polymyositis i. 2 The terms polymyositis and dermatomyositis were used almost indiscriminately by the early authors.

1995 Denver Post 18 May a12/2 Thomas didn't live long enough to see her daughter..develop cancer and lose a breast on top of polymyositis, a muscle-wasting disease.

1900 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. Nov. 16 There are two forms of sexual season evident in female mammals; the monœstrous, in which there is only a single œstrus at one or more particular times of the year (bitch), and the polyœstrous, in which there are two or more concurrent diœstrous cycles at a particular time of the year (mare).

1946 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 133 250 The ovarian cycle is polyoestrous, that is, the oestrous cycles recur throughout the breeding season.

1997 Q. Rev. Biol. 72 253 The molossids [sc. bats] are mostly polyestrous at tropical and temperate latitudes.

1833 Times 27 Dec. 3/6 Sadlers Wells... In the course of the piece a new moving Polyorama was introduced, which would do honour to houses of much higher pretensions.

1851 Morning Chron. 4 Feb. 5/1 Nearly opposite is the Polyorama, with a series of pictures from Constantinople and the Bosphorus.

1982 Daily Tel. 20 Aug. 10/3 A miniature polyorama panoptique, a sort of two-dimensional peep show in a conical metal casing, dating from 1840, made £450.

1887 Science 3 June 534/2 In the natural world some beings are monorganic, others are polyorganic.

1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. ii. xxvii. §3 As vsually is found in any polyωticall Argus-eyed tyrannie.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4606/2 Polypage, containing several pages.

1907 N.E.D. at Poly- Polypage,..comprising several pages, as a polypage (stereotype-) plate.

1870 Rep. U.S. Commissioners Paris Universal Expos. 1867 462 (heading) Engraving—polypantograph.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1763/1 Polypantograph, an instrument on the principle of the pantograph, by which a number of similar designs may be simultaneously executed upon a metallic plate or roller from a single pattern. Invented by M. Gavard, Paris.

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Polyparous, producing a great number; bringing forth many.

1903 Lancet 28 Feb. 613/2 The ovaries of very prolific polyparous women, in whom twins are common, are generally of the foetal type.

1990 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 59 868 In uniparous species, flexible growth is generally considered to be the only means of adjusting reproductive effort to the provisioning ability of parents, in contrast with polyparous species which can adjust brood size.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 87 It is all right and fitting that a quadruped, or polyped, like Jack-with-the-many-legs, should go on foot.

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 193 Though it cannot be thrown down by a tempest, it may be shattered by it, and its polyped unity destroyed.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4607/1 Polyphobia, morbid fear of many things: nearly equivalent to pantophobia.

1980 Verbatim Autumn 5/2 It occurred to me that many of the names of our many phobias could cause as many problems as the actual phobias themselves... I give you the following examples:..polyphobia..[fear of] many things.

2000 Boston Globe (Nexis) 20 Feb. l1 Shawn's personal foibles were so legendary (the polyphobia, the corn flakes lunches at the Algonquin).

1841 Trans. Royal Sc. Soc. Arts 474 The lamp is polyphotal, or allows several lights or burners to be used simultaneously in the same reflector.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4607/2 Polyphotal, same as polyphote.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 701/1 Polyphote regulator, an order of voltaic arc regulators..which allows several or many lights on one circuit.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam (new ed.) 5 Poly-piety is the greatest impiety in the world.

1864 T. W. M. Marshall Missions in Amer. 343 They [sc. the Pilgrim Fathers] proceeded forthwith to chastise what they called, in their singular jargon, ‘the profaneness of polypiety’.

1950 R. M. Dorson Amer. Begins 6 Satire appears in the heavy blows at feminine frippery and ‘polypiety’ from Nathaniel Ward.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4607/3 Polyplacid, having more than one madreporic plate, as a starfish; not monoplacid.

1844 R. Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 4) 577/2 Polyplastic element, in histology, is one which does not retain its primary shape; but undergoes transformation into others.

1918 Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasitol. 12 93 The main pair of stigmata..lie in the deep cup-shaped cavity or pit between the polypneustic lobes.

1998 Functional Ecol. 12 867/2 Females about to give birth were identified by the presence of darkened polypneustic lobes at the hind end of their in utero larva.

1853 Fraser's Mag. 47 179 We have never had such a polyponous individual as the Rector of Lyndon.

1821 Sporting Mag. 9 53 The ancients boasted the power of their Polyposists.

1873 E. Atkinson tr. A. Ganot Elem. Treat. Physics (ed. 6) vii. iii. §502 That the angle of deviation increases with the refractive index may be shown by means of the polyprism. This name is given to a prism formed of several prisms of the same angle connected at their bases.

1849 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Polyprismatic, presenting numerous prisms.

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Polyprismatic, having many lateral secondary planes, with or without the primary planes; said of a prismatic crystal.

1939 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 127 27 Polyproteins. Labile associated aggregates may occur between the molecules of different proteins.

1975 Sci. Amer. May 27/3 This huge protein, really a polyprotein, is then systematically cleaved by proteolytic enzymes.

2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 10682/2 We have used protein engineering techniques to assemble a chimeric polyprotein.

1896 Classical Rev. Feb. 62/1 The gradual development from extreme oligoprothesy to considerable polyprothesy, in the Tragic writers, is especially dwelt on.

1904 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 25 106 As for oligoprothesy and polyprothesy, the variation in most authors is..so slight that it may escape the most attentive reader.

1894 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 25 61 Thucydides has in general more prepositions than Xenophon,..and in this agrees with the Tragedians, who are polyprothetic.

1896 Classical Rev. Feb. 62/1 The enquiry leads to the general law that prose is polyprothetic and poetry oligoprothetic.

1876 World 5 No. 105. 9 If it is..intolerable for one gentleman to call another a polypseudonymous writer.

1902 A. C. Swinburne in Q. Rev. July 30 The polypseudonymous ruffian who uses and wears out as many stolen names as ever did even the most cowardly and virulent of literary poisoners.

1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4609/2 Polyrhizal, same as polyrhizous.

1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Polyrhizus, having many roots..; applied by de Candolle to the parasite plants which..shoot out..a number of free roots..: polyrhizous.

1925 Bull. Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv. 15 440 The septic or grossly polluted portions of a stream... The organisms of this zone are those which have been termed by Kolkwitz and Marsson..polysaprobic and by Forbes and Richardson..septic or saprobic.

1950 Folia Limnologica Scandinavica 5 76 The polysaprobic zone is defined in a chemical respect as the zone in which reduction of the polluting substances takes place.

1997 Limnologica 27 179 Many of the species found were indicators for mesosaprobic or polysaprobic conditions.

1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 170 Multivocals..are of three sorts. I. Polysemants, where there is identity of form in the symbols of primary significations and their derivatives.

1989 Computer Lang. (Nexis) Nov. 143 Observe the fuzziness in the statement that a polysemant has more than one meaning.

1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 75 (note) This is not the Sánkhya ‘nature’, prakṛiti, but our own polysemantic ‘nature’.

1989 Appl. Linguistics 10 382 Most of the words in the language are polysemantic, that is they have a range of different ‘meanings’, ‘senses’, or ‘lexical units’.

1966 S. Ceccato in Automatic Transl. of Lang. (NATO Summer School , Venice, 1962) 75 First of all there is the problem of the polysemanticity of the individual words.

1990 Poetics Today 11 552 To account for polysemanticity—that is, for different meanings of the same elements which obtain for different intonation patterns—I have suggested alternative readings for ambiguities in the sound structure.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. ix. 258 The principle of analogy or metaphor in polysemantism..appears when the name of a well known historical..figure is extended to persons supposed to resemble that character.

1998 M. Delville Amer. Prose Poem 264 (note) Andrews' ‘truncated’ sentence, Valaoritis writes, ‘puts its trust in a new polysemantism, in a new space’.

1904 E. G. Gardner Dante's Ten Heavens 11 We are told in the Letter to Can Grande that the poem is polysensuous.

1995 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 115 171/2 Polysensuous polyvalency in poetic parallelism.

1899 Dublin Rev. Jan. 211 We do not think that Mr. Paget Toynbee quite realises in the Dictionary..the poly~sensuousness of Beatrice.

1900 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Dec. 1693/2 Italian physicians..have given a name or names to this multiple inflammation of the serous cavities... The names are polyserositis and polyorromenitis.

1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. I. i. 5/1 A syndrome known as ‘polyserositis’ or Concato's disease develops in which fluid gradually collects in the pleural and peritoneal cavities.

1995 McGill Jrnl. Med. Spring 76/1 These immune complexes can activate complement, and thereby induce acute inflammatory reactions resulting in glomerulonephritis, arthritis, vasculitis, and polyserositis (e.g., pericarditis or pleuritis).

1862 H. W. Bellew Jrnl. Polit. Mission Afghanistan 216 The only clean..building is a polysided domed mosque..that stands on an eminence overlooking the village.

1994 Amer. Lit. 66 849 A man whose criticism, like the realism he championed, was polysided, multifarious, and dialectical.

1951 V. P. Strauss & E. G. Jackson in Jrnl. Polymer Sci. 6 658 Polysoaps are defined as polymers to whose chain soap molecules are attached.

1995 Science 8 Sept. 1421/1 The branched micelles..may in fact be intertwined micelles, similar to those previously observed in polysoap solutions.

1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 18 A Unisoil Farm requires fewer Implements than a Polysoil Farm.

1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Dec. 1643/2 The subject of polysomatous terata.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 251 Groups of polysomitic segments, which..receive the name of thorax and abdomen.

1894 Amer. Naturalist 28 221 The ancestor of the Phyllopods must have been an elongate poly-somitic animal with lamellate appendages.

1931 W. C. MacLeod Origin & Hist. Politics iv. 60 In this modification of his theory the social vulcanism is the consequence of the working of economic influences, not a consequence of the polyspecific origins of the human family.

1966 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 56 476 Polyspecific sera for antigens H-2.1,3,8,11,25,32..were obtained.

1971 Nature 22 Oct. 521/3 Three areas of concern were highlighted..second, the replacement of polyspecific grassland by forest monocultures.

2003 New Scientist 22 Mar. 88/1 (advt.) After detecting a new family of polyspecific drug transporters and characterizing the function and localization of prototypic subtypes, the group investigates the structure function relationship of polyspecific transport.

1950 H. Gastaut in Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 2 250/1 In the EEG is a burst of very large amplitude rhythmic spikes of a frequency equal to that of the flashes; these are bilateral and synchronized, and appear predominantly in the precentral and frontal regions where they can in fact be localized... These spikes are sometimes quite pure and thus constitute the complex for which we have proposed the name ‘polyspike’.

2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 3626 (caption) Spontaneously occurring, cortically generated seizure with polyspike-wave complexes.

1887 W. J. Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 417/2 [article Sponge] A continued spiral growth through several revolutions gives the polyspire.

1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §392 If the stamens are double the sepals or petals..the flower is diplostemonous..; if more than double, polystemonous.

1915 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 2 114 In earlier (primitive) flowers there are many stamens (polystemonous) while in later flowers there are fewer stamens (oligostemonous).

1998 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 85 1057 (title) Early development of androecia in polystemonous Hydrangeaceae.