单词 | pontine |
释义 | Pontineadj.1 Of or relating to the area of western Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea coast just south of Rome, known esp. for its marshland. Frequently in Pontine marshes. ΚΠ 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. xxi. 232 They created certaine Quinqueviri for the division of the Pomptine lands: and Triumviri for the planting of a colonie at Nepet. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvi. iv. 244 Why do we not at this day drie up the Pontine lakes [Fr. le lac de Pontia], and recover so much good ground unto the territorie about Rome? 1695 L. Echard Rom. Hist. I. iii. iii. 356 He undertook to drein the Pontine Marshes near Rome, and to empty the Lakes. a1748 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid vii, in J. Warton et al. tr. Virgil Wks. (1753) III. 362 And Anxur glories in her guardian Jove Where stands the Pontine lake and o'er the plain, Cold Ufens' stream steals gently to the main. 1792 Times 30 May 3/2 The Pope has had another apoplectic attack in a journey to the Pontine Marshes. 1852 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 15 167 Such is the effect of the low lands of Italy on the population, not only of the Tuscan Maremma, but of the Pontine Marshes and all the other depressed parts of the Mediterranean coast. 1894 Classical Rev. Feb. 17/2 Similar pieces of the Via Appia embanked with stone substructures may be seen on the descent from Genzano to the Pontine plain. 1908 H. James Let. 7 Mar. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) ii. 92 Teddy, in the Pontine marshes & at Subiaco, will feel planturous. 1944 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 27 May 2///7 The escape from the Pontine plain was made skillfully. 2004 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 1 Aug. (Travel section) 1 The largest of the Pontine Islands, Ponza is the favourite summer resort of well-heeled Romans. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Pontineadj.2 Of or relating to the Black Sea or the surrounding area; spec. of or relating to the ancient district and kingdom of Pontus. Cf. Pontic adj.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [adjective] > Asia Minor > specific lands Pontic?1556 Aeolian1567 Hyrcan1567 Median1577 Albanian1578 Parthian1581 Lycaonian1582 Lydian1584 Anatolian1590 Cilician1597 Lycian1598 Hyrcanian1600 Cappadocian1607 Mysian1613 Chaldaic1662 Pergamenian1680 Sogdian1700 Chaldean1732 Carian1818 Pontine1832 Anatolic1853 Medic1869 Sumerian1874 Mitannian1897 Mitannite1911 1832 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 2 43 This god, who is of Pontine, and not Egyptian, extraction, was introduced into Egypt in the reign of the first Ptolemy. 1873 Littell's Living Age 17 May 422/1 And here all around me I see Pontine breakages, Greek breakages, Roman breakages, Byzantine breakages. 1920 Q. Rev. Jan. 244 It would be necessary to guarantee a local autonomy to the Greeks of the Pontine littoral. 1968 S. Johnson Turkish Panorama x. 96 I was now in the very foothills of the Pontine Mountains. 1992 Classical Philol. 87 310 The appearance of Mithras as cavalier can be pushed back to the late first or eary second century in Pontine Trapezus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pontineadj.3 Anatomy and Medicine. Of or relating to the pons of the brain. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [adjective] > pons pontal1868 pontile1882 pontine1888 pontic1890 1888 Lancet 17 Nov. 957/2 Conjugate deviation from a pontine source..the eyes in paralysis turn away from the side of the lesion. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 849 In cerebral hæmorrhage and in pontine hæmorrhage, pinpoint pupils are usually present. 1953 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 237 183 The angle of branching of the cerebellar and pontine arteries..suggests that the direction of flow in the basilar artery is away from and not towards the circle of Willis. 1976 Sci. Amer. Nov. 94/3 All the pontine cells we have tested so far have responded to only one form of sensory stimulation, be it visual, auditory or tactile. 1990 Brain 113 49 Electrophysiological studies were performed on 17 patients with pontine haemorrhage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11600adj.21832adj.31888 |
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