polymorphousadj.

Brit.

/ˌpɒlɪˈmɔːfəs/, U.S.

/ˌpɑliˈmɔrfəs/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: poly- comb. form, -morphous comb. form.

Etymology: < poly- comb. form + -morphous comb. form, after ancient Greek πολύμορϕος (see polymorphean adj.). Compare earlier polymorphean adj.

a. Medicine. = polymorphic adj. 4.

ΚΠ

1754 S. Mihles in tr. A. von Haller Physiol. II. 375 A variety of hippish, hysterical, nervous and polymorphous fevers.

1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 55 The polymorphous erythemata.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 636 A polymorphous eruption accompanied by itching.

1970 O. Sacks Migraine ii. 66 Patients who present with a polymorphous syndrome in which a large variety of symptoms—with clinical and physiological affinities to each other—occur simultaneously or cyclically.

1976 Lancet 25 Dec. 1415/1 The lesions were polymorphous and comprised dull-red nodules..and confluent pink papules with pustules on the top.

2002 Photodermatol., Photoimmunol. & Photomed. 18 303 Polymorphous light eruption (PMLE) is the most common chronic idiopathic photodermatosis.

b. Chiefly Biology. Having or occurring in several different forms; spec. occurring in different morphological forms (at the same or different stages of the life cycle). Cf. polymorphic adj. 2.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > occurrence of variant forms

polymorphous1773

polytypic1858

polymorphic1859

heteromorphic1864

polytypical1890

polymorphistic1897

morphic1955

1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening II. 208 Polymorphous trefoil. This is a very extensive species.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxv. 371 There is a species of Medicago called polymorphous or many-form.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 447 Infusoria. Microscopic animals, gelatinous, transparent, polymorphous, and contractile.

1856 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 56 Stentor... Body conical, from its contractility polymorphous.

1928 C. K. Ogden tr. A. H. Forel Social World of Ants II. v. 337 The formicary is a society of females and their polymorphous derivative forms.

1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) x. 219 It is..unsafe to generalise about the behaviour of Timothy since it is a polymorphous species including races which vary in structure, and in their agronomic value.

1968 J. Bouillon in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. ii. i. 86 Highly polymorphous, the colonies of Siphonophora are fundamentally composed of a floating apparatus corresponding to modified craspedote medusae.

c. gen. Manifesting in different ways; occurring in different forms, shapes, or varieties; multiform.

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the world > space > shape > [adjective] > having many or all forms

variformed1578

milliformc1581

Protean1594

multiform1603

shapeful?1615

omniform1642

polymorphean1656

diversiform1660

variform1662

multiformousa1670

proteiform1724

various1725

versiform1727

polymorphous1798

maniform?1811

polymorphic1816

pantomorphic1836

omniformal1848

polymorph1872

pluriform1938

1798 R. Townson Philos. Mineral. x. 180 Flint... It is found in polymorphous nodules.

1823 T. De Quincey Death German Great Man in London Mag. Apr. 373/1 I still find it difficult to form any judgment of an author so ‘many-sided’ (to borrow a German expression)—so poly-morphous as Herder.

1894 Abp. Benson in Westm. Gaz. (1898) 22 Sept. 1/3 These terrors of a polymorphous religion in which a child is being taught in one standard by a Baptist, and in the next by a Congregationalist, and in the next by a Roman Catholic, and in the next by an agnostic, do not exist.

1956 Mind 65 249 Thinking is, like work, a polymorphous concept.

1977 Oxf. Lit. Rev. 2 iii. 7/1 The imagery it produces has little relation to the experiential world whose objects it transforms into interchangeable and polymorphous symbols.

1997 William & Mary Q. 54 480 At one pole was God's disembodied singularity and at the other was a polymorphous female spawning and redigesting still more sundry shapes.

2. Chemistry and Mineralogy. Crystallizing in two or more forms, esp. in forms belonging to different crystal systems; chemically identical but crystallographically different. Also with with.

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the world > matter > chemistry > polymorphism > [adjective]

polymorphous1848

polymorphic1924

the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [adjective] > crystalline > crystal structure

monostic1816

pantogenous1816

isomorphous1828

polymorphous1848

monostichous1857

isomorphic1862

untwinned1879

allotriomorphic1887

xenomorphic1888

polymorphic1891

isostructural1906

isotypic1929

the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > structures and forms > [adjective] > polytype > polymorphous

polymorphous1848

pleomorphous1854

1848 Mem. & Proc. Chem. Soc. London 1845–8 3 57 (heading) On the relation in volumes between simple bodies, their oxides and sulphurets, and on the differences exhibited by polymorphous and allotropic substances.

1895 C. S. Palmer tr. W. Nernst Theoret. Chem. i. iii. 86 The different kinds of crystals of a polymorphous substance, are to be regarded as different modifications analogous to the different states of aggregation.

1906 J. P. Iddings Rock Minerals i. i. 19 Silica (SiO₂) is certainly dimorphous and possibly polymorphous.

1925 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 112 502 There are only two polymorphous phases..a cubic body-centred modification..and a cubic face-centred modification.

1990 W. L. Roberts et al. Encycl. Minerals (ed. 2) 497/2 Lonsdaleite... Polymorphous with chaote, diamond, and graphite.

3. Music. Designating a contrapuntal composition in which the parts may be varied using various devices: see quots. 1890, 1898. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > style of composition

grandc1666

romantic1836

routinier1837

parodistic1845

rococo1868

virtuose1873

virtuosic1879

galant1884

polymorphous1890

monothematic1894

rococo1904

impressionistic1908

salon1914

gallant1925

athematic1935

non-thematic1946

minimalistic1947

stochastic1958

progressive1963

minimal1968

post-minimal1971

minimalist1977

1890 Cent. Dict. Polymorphous, noting a contrapuntal composition, as a canon or a fugue, in which the themes are or may be treated in various ways, as by augmentation, diminution, inversion, etc.

1898 J. Stainer Stainer & Barrett's Dict. Musical Terms (rev. ed.) 372/1 Polymorphous, a term applied to compositions the parts of which are capable of inversion, as in double counterpoint; or of augmentation, diminution, per thesin et arsin, and other devices, as in Canon.

2004 New Grove Dict. Music (Electronic ed.) 18 Oct. at Micheli, Romano His works include examples of enigma and polymorphous canons, as well as canons with basso continuo.

Compounds

polymorphous perverse adj. [after German polymorph pervers ( S. Freud Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie (1905) 44)] Psychoanalysis designating or characterized by sexuality that can be excited and gratified in many ways, and is regarded as normal in young children but abnormal in adults.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [adjective] > sexuality that can be excited and gratified in many ways

polymorphous perverse1909

omnisexual1971

1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria ix. 191 The constitutional sexual predisposition of the child is more irregularly multifarious than one would expect, that it deserves to be called ‘polymorphous-perverse’, and that from this predisposition the so-called normal behavior of the sexual functions results through a repression of certain components.

1910 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Three Contrib. to Sexual Theory ii. 49 Under the influence of seduction the child may become polymorphous-perverse.

1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 411 Three kinds of erotic life are possible... The polymorphous-perverse promiscuous sexuality of childhood, courting couples whose relation is potential,..and the chastity of natural celibates who are without desire.

1995 Internat. Jrnl. Psychanal. 76 1205 In the cases cited, rings seemed specifically associated with (and to symbolise) sphincteric (largely anal) narcissistic defensiveness—the mind functioning as an emotional sphincteric counterpart..intermittently letting through primitive rage and primal polymorphous perverse sexual impulses.

polymorphous perversity n. the condition of being polymorphous perverse.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [noun] > sexuality that can be excited and gratified in many ways

polymorphous perversity1954

1954 W. Mayer-Gross et al. Clin. Psychiatry iv. 179 The active male and the passive female [homosexual]..adopt their homosexual behaviour as a pis aller, or, as frequently occurs, out of an abundance of sexual urge and interest and as part of a polymorphous perversity.

1993 J. Green It: Sex since Sixties 72 And as the decade moved along, both strands became ever more intense, the politicos in their endless fissiparous wranglings, the swingers in their polymorphous perversity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	polymorphous
释义	polymorphousadj. Brit. /ˌpɒlɪˈmɔːfəs/, U.S. /ˌpɑliˈmɔrfəs/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: poly- comb. form, -morphous comb. form. Etymology: < poly- comb. form + -morphous comb. form, after ancient Greek πολύμορϕος (see polymorphean adj.). Compare earlier polymorphean adj. 1. a. Medicine. = polymorphic adj. 4. ΚΠ 1754 S. Mihles in tr. A. von Haller Physiol. II. 375 A variety of hippish, hysterical, nervous and polymorphous fevers. 1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 55 The polymorphous erythemata. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 636 A polymorphous eruption accompanied by itching. 1970 O. Sacks Migraine ii. 66 Patients who present with a polymorphous syndrome in which a large variety of symptoms—with clinical and physiological affinities to each other—occur simultaneously or cyclically. 1976 Lancet 25 Dec. 1415/1 The lesions were polymorphous and comprised dull-red nodules..and confluent pink papules with pustules on the top. 2002 Photodermatol., Photoimmunol. & Photomed. 18 303 Polymorphous light eruption (PMLE) is the most common chronic idiopathic photodermatosis. b. Chiefly Biology. Having or occurring in several different forms; spec. occurring in different morphological forms (at the same or different stages of the life cycle). Cf. polymorphic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > occurrence of variant forms polymorphous1773 polytypic1858 polymorphic1859 heteromorphic1864 polytypical1890 polymorphistic1897 morphic1955 1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening II. 208 Polymorphous trefoil. This is a very extensive species. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxv. 371 There is a species of Medicago called polymorphous or many-form. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 447 Infusoria. Microscopic animals, gelatinous, transparent, polymorphous, and contractile. 1856 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 56 Stentor... Body conical, from its contractility polymorphous. 1928 C. K. Ogden tr. A. H. Forel Social World of Ants II. v. 337 The formicary is a society of females and their polymorphous derivative forms. 1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) x. 219 It is..unsafe to generalise about the behaviour of Timothy since it is a polymorphous species including races which vary in structure, and in their agronomic value. 1968 J. Bouillon in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. ii. i. 86 Highly polymorphous, the colonies of Siphonophora are fundamentally composed of a floating apparatus corresponding to modified craspedote medusae. c. gen. Manifesting in different ways; occurring in different forms, shapes, or varieties; multiform. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [adjective] > having many or all forms variformed1578 milliformc1581 Protean1594 multiform1603 shapeful?1615 omniform1642 polymorphean1656 diversiform1660 variform1662 multiformousa1670 proteiform1724 various1725 versiform1727 polymorphous1798 maniform?1811 polymorphic1816 pantomorphic1836 omniformal1848 polymorph1872 pluriform1938 1798 R. Townson Philos. Mineral. x. 180 Flint... It is found in polymorphous nodules. 1823 T. De Quincey Death German Great Man in London Mag. Apr. 373/1 I still find it difficult to form any judgment of an author so ‘many-sided’ (to borrow a German expression)—so poly-morphous as Herder. 1894 Abp. Benson in Westm. Gaz. (1898) 22 Sept. 1/3 These terrors of a polymorphous religion in which a child is being taught in one standard by a Baptist, and in the next by a Congregationalist, and in the next by a Roman Catholic, and in the next by an agnostic, do not exist. 1956 Mind 65 249 Thinking is, like work, a polymorphous concept. 1977 Oxf. Lit. Rev. 2 iii. 7/1 The imagery it produces has little relation to the experiential world whose objects it transforms into interchangeable and polymorphous symbols. 1997 William & Mary Q. 54 480 At one pole was God's disembodied singularity and at the other was a polymorphous female spawning and redigesting still more sundry shapes. 2. Chemistry and Mineralogy. Crystallizing in two or more forms, esp. in forms belonging to different crystal systems; chemically identical but crystallographically different. Also with with. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > polymorphism > [adjective] polymorphous1848 polymorphic1924 the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [adjective] > crystalline > crystal structure monostic1816 pantogenous1816 isomorphous1828 polymorphous1848 monostichous1857 isomorphic1862 untwinned1879 allotriomorphic1887 xenomorphic1888 polymorphic1891 isostructural1906 isotypic1929 the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > structures and forms > [adjective] > polytype > polymorphous polymorphous1848 pleomorphous1854 1848 Mem. & Proc. Chem. Soc. London 1845–8 3 57 (heading) On the relation in volumes between simple bodies, their oxides and sulphurets, and on the differences exhibited by polymorphous and allotropic substances. 1895 C. S. Palmer tr. W. Nernst Theoret. Chem. i. iii. 86 The different kinds of crystals of a polymorphous substance, are to be regarded as different modifications analogous to the different states of aggregation. 1906 J. P. Iddings Rock Minerals i. i. 19 Silica (SiO₂) is certainly dimorphous and possibly polymorphous. 1925 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 112 502 There are only two polymorphous phases..a cubic body-centred modification..and a cubic face-centred modification. 1990 W. L. Roberts et al. Encycl. Minerals (ed. 2) 497/2 Lonsdaleite... Polymorphous with chaote, diamond, and graphite. 3. Music. Designating a contrapuntal composition in which the parts may be varied using various devices: see quots. 1890, 1898. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > style of composition grandc1666 romantic1836 routinier1837 parodistic1845 rococo1868 virtuose1873 virtuosic1879 galant1884 polymorphous1890 monothematic1894 rococo1904 impressionistic1908 salon1914 gallant1925 athematic1935 non-thematic1946 minimalistic1947 stochastic1958 progressive1963 minimal1968 post-minimal1971 minimalist1977 1890 Cent. Dict. Polymorphous, noting a contrapuntal composition, as a canon or a fugue, in which the themes are or may be treated in various ways, as by augmentation, diminution, inversion, etc. 1898 J. Stainer Stainer & Barrett's Dict. Musical Terms (rev. ed.) 372/1 Polymorphous, a term applied to compositions the parts of which are capable of inversion, as in double counterpoint; or of augmentation, diminution, per thesin et arsin, and other devices, as in Canon. 2004 New Grove Dict. Music (Electronic ed.) 18 Oct. at Micheli, Romano His works include examples of enigma and polymorphous canons, as well as canons with basso continuo. Compounds polymorphous perverse adj. [after German polymorph pervers ( S. Freud Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie (1905) 44)] Psychoanalysis designating or characterized by sexuality that can be excited and gratified in many ways, and is regarded as normal in young children but abnormal in adults. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [adjective] > sexuality that can be excited and gratified in many ways polymorphous perverse1909 omnisexual1971 1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria ix. 191 The constitutional sexual predisposition of the child is more irregularly multifarious than one would expect, that it deserves to be called ‘polymorphous-perverse’, and that from this predisposition the so-called normal behavior of the sexual functions results through a repression of certain components. 1910 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Three Contrib. to Sexual Theory ii. 49 Under the influence of seduction the child may become polymorphous-perverse. 1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 411 Three kinds of erotic life are possible... The polymorphous-perverse promiscuous sexuality of childhood, courting couples whose relation is potential,..and the chastity of natural celibates who are without desire. 1995 Internat. Jrnl. Psychanal. 76 1205 In the cases cited, rings seemed specifically associated with (and to symbolise) sphincteric (largely anal) narcissistic defensiveness—the mind functioning as an emotional sphincteric counterpart..intermittently letting through primitive rage and primal polymorphous perverse sexual impulses. polymorphous perversity n. the condition of being polymorphous perverse. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [noun] > sexuality that can be excited and gratified in many ways polymorphous perversity1954 1954 W. Mayer-Gross et al. Clin. Psychiatry iv. 179 The active male and the passive female [homosexual]..adopt their homosexual behaviour as a pis aller, or, as frequently occurs, out of an abundance of sexual urge and interest and as part of a polymorphous perversity. 1993 J. Green It: Sex since Sixties 72 And as the decade moved along, both strands became ever more intense, the politicos in their endless fissiparous wranglings, the swingers in their polymorphous perversity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1754
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