单词 | plutonic |
释义 | Plutonicadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the god Pluto, or the underworld which he was believed to rule; infernal, demonic. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] nethereOE hellena1225 infernalc1374 infern?a1513 hellish1530 helly1532 Avernal?1548 hellic1566 subterrestrial1592 Plutonic1596 Acherontic1597 Plutonical1599 Stygian1601 subterranean1603 Plutonian1604 Acherontical1610 subterraneous1631 subterraneal1643 Tophetical1684 pandemoniac1793 submundane1805 subterrene1809 netherworld1828 pandemonic1833 Acheronian1849 transacherontic1854 Avernian1864 trans-Stygian1899 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 19 God graunt it be no Plutonicke affray: Oh what it is to be a mortall man Subiect to all the guiles..of Satan. 1624 J. Vicars tr. G. Goodwin Babels Balm 47 All Satans Workes, by this Plutonick Priest. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 68 Or els resolve on racked necks, By some plutonick Carnifex. 1704 I. Sharpe Animadversions E. Calamy's Abridgm. R. Baxter's Hist. To Rdr. sig. A2v Black as the Vapours of the Infernal Cell (to use Mr. Calamy's Plutonick Expression). 1746 A. Arbuthnot Mem. Miss Jenny Cameron 180 As you are the sole Monarch in this Kingdom of Spectres, you are certainly so only by Deputation from his Plutonick Majesty. 1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 65 Winter—a Plutonic thief, Coming to claim thee for his Mourning Bride. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlvii. 128 As if some ancient doom compelled him to wander here against his will in the service of his Plutonic master. 1908 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 19 64 If duly propitiated, Zeus Milichius fulfilled functions to some extent Plutonic. 1991 Esquire (BNC) 79 Plus a Plutonic rage whenever snookered more than once a frame. 2. Geology. Of, relating to, or designating rocks formed by the action of heat at great depths in the earth's crust, esp. as distinguished from volcanic rocks formed at or near the earth's surface; abyssal, intrusive. Also (now historical): designating, relating to, or advocating the theory of Plutonism (contrasted with Neptunian). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [adjective] fire-born?a1656 igneous1661 Plutonic1794 pyrogenous1821 Plutonian1823 pyrogenic1823 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [adjective] > plutonic Plutonic1833 abyssal1891 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 455 There is another system which attributes not only to basalts, but to all stony substances, an igneous origin... This may be called the Plutonic system. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 353 The unstratified crystalline rocks have been very commonly called Plutonic, from the opinion that they were formed by igneous action at great depths. 1870 E. L. Garbett in Eng. Mech. 11 Mar. 625/1 All this is apart from plutonic heat. 1904 Science 14 Oct. 486/1 The Plutonic versus the Neptunic theories. 1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) v. 84 Of late years all granitoid, plutonic, pyroxene-plagioclase rocks are collectively spoken of as the gabbro group. 1990 P. Kearey & F. J. Vine Global Tectonics ii. 25 Ocean ridges and island arcs are the location of the Earth's most active areas of volcanic and plutonic activity. B. n. Geology. In plural. Plutonic rocks. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > plutonic rocks Plutonic1852 1852 Amer. Whig Rev. July 41/2 The material..as Sinaitic granite, porphyry, basalt, quartz, and multitudinous plutonics, doth abound there. 1881 R. F. Burton in Academy 21 May 366/2 Here begins the new land of clayey schist and mica-slate contrasting with the plutonics of Bihé. 1914 J. Park Text-bk. Geol. xvi. 253 Dyke rocks, like the plutonics, are typically compact. 1995 Nature 16 Mar. 234/1 Most of the deformation in the plutonics is brittle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1596 |
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