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单词 pseudo-
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pseudo-comb. form

Stress is determined by a range of factors though some degree of stress is usually maintained on this combining form.
Forms: late Middle English seudo-, late Middle English– pseudo-. before a vowel or h also 1500s– pseud-.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Greek ψευδο-, ψευδ-.
Etymology: < ancient Greek ψευδο- (before a vowel ψευδ-), combining form (see below) of ψευδής (adjective) false, ψεῦδος falsity, falsehood, ψεύδειν to deceive, cheat, ψεύδεσθαι to be false, speak falsely. Compare post-classical Latin pseudo-, French pseudo- (formations in which are found from the 19th cent., but see below), German pseudo- (formations in which are found from the early 19th cent.).In Greek this combining form forms many compounds, with nouns as the second element (e.g. ψευδομάρτυς pseudomartyr n., ψευδαπόστολος pseudo-apostle n., ψευδάριθμος a false number, ψευδάργυρος mock silver), with adjectives or adjective formatives (in sense ‘falsely’, e.g. ψευδολόγος speaking falsely (see pseudologer n.), ψευδόπλουτος feigned to be rich), and sometimes with verbs (e.g. ψευδοποιεῖν to falsify). Some of these Greek nouns and adjectives were adopted in classical Latin, especially terms of natural history, e.g. pseudoanchūsa bastard alkanet, pseudosphēx false wasp, pseudosmaragdus false emerald (all in Pliny but not actually attested in Greek). Additionally, words connected with Christianity were adopted in post-classical Latin, e.g. pseudapostolus pseudo-apostle n., pseudochristus pseudo-Christ n., pseudopropheta pseudoprophet n., etc. In late antiquity, pseudo- was prefixed also to Latin words, e.g. post-classical Latin pseudoflavus yellowish, tawny (5th cent.), pseudoliquidus (5th cent.), pseudopastor (4th cent. in Jerome), and such formations subsequently became common, as pseudodoctor (5th cent.; 1381 in a British source), pseudonuncius (1323 in a British source), etc. In English, pseudo- first appears in the early 15th cent. (in works attributed to Wyclif), both in adaptations of post-classical Latin words of the New Testament (Vulgate or Vetus Latina) or their Hellenistic Greek etymons (pseudo-Christ n., pseudoprophet n.; compare also pseudo-apostle n. (mid 15th cent. in Pecock)) and in adaptations of Latin words from Christian contexts (pseudo-clerk n., pseudo-friar n., pseudo-priest n. at sense 1a). After these, the combining form is used again in the late 16th cent. in a small number of adaptations of Latin words (pseudo-Christian n., pseudo-Catholic n.) as well as in the first native formations (pseudography n. 1, pseudo-prophetical adj., both modelled on existing English words). pseudo-prophetical adj. is also the first example of pseudo- combining with an adjective in English (compare sense 1b). In the 17th cent., combinations of pseudo- with nouns become more frequent; in the later 17th cent. the first combinations with adjectives appear which are not modelled on an earlier noun (pseudo-religious adj., pseudo-perpetual adj. at sense 1b). Scientific formations (sense 2) and adaptations from Latin are found in the second half of the 18th cent. (in pseudelephant n., apparently a formation, and in the adaptations pseudogalena n., pseudoblepsis n.), with an isolated earlier formation occurring in the early 17th cent. (pseudoskink n.). In the course of the 19th cent., English formations both with adjectives and with nouns become common and are particularly frequent in scientific terminology. English formations in pseudo- are not restricted to words ultimately of Greek or Latin origin. The French combining form is first attested in Old French in an isolated adaptation of a post-classical Latin word (Old French pseudoprophete : see pseudoprophet n.). After this, it appears again in late Middle French in pseudo-catholique pseudo-Catholic adj. and in the 17th cent. in adaptations from Latin (e.g. pseudo-médecin pseudo medic n. at sense 1a, pseudodiptère pseudodipter n., pseudonyme pseudonymous adj.). Native formations are found from the 19th cent.
1. Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘false, pretended, counterfeit, spurious, sham; apparently but not really, falsely or erroneously called or represented, falsely, spuriously’.
a. Prefixed to nouns.
pseudo-antithesis n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊanˈtɪθᵻsɪs/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌænˈtɪθəsəs/
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1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook xi. 169 The biological approach..makes these appear..as a typical pseudoantithesis.
1987 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 27 439 Pope places him in a triplet with his mind meaninglessly oscillating between the empty deictics of ‘that’ and ‘this’, a pseudo-antithesis.
pseudo-argument n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈɑːɡjᵿm(ə)nt/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈɑrɡjəm(ə)nt/
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun] > instance of
reason1589
circularity1610
brain-squirt1654
flaw1667
alogism1679
pseudo-argument1872
illogicality1873
1872 N.Y. Times 19 July 4/5 The flimsy veil of statistics and pseudo-argument is thrown off at last.
1943 Mind 52 139 The methodological unification here attempted..helps to eliminate pseudo-arguments.
2000 in J. Lyly Galatea/Midas (new ed.) 92 Rafe's pseudo-argument makes the Astronomer superior to the fortune-teller.
pseudo-art n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈɑːt/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈɑrt/
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1866 Times 24 May 12/1 Even the more intelligent of the fashionable people..have little respect for the pseudo-art which they call into being.
1992 Washington City Paper 21 Feb. 23/2 The T4 program was just as much pseudo-science as it was pseudo-art.
pseudo-artist n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈɑːtɪst/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈɑrdəst/
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > painting badly or carelessly > painter
dauber1655
pseudo-artist1831
daubster1853
1831 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 13 June Now, considering that Polidore was, after all, merely pseudo-artist, the arrangement of his painting room was highly creditable to his taste.
1934 D. Thomas Let. Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 147 This is the quarter of the pseudo-artists.
2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 May 21 The talentless pseudo-artists who pretend to be performing classical music.
† pseudo-ascetic n. Obsolete
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1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 13 These may be term'd a sort of Pseudo-Asceticks.
† pseudo-bard n. Obsolete
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1796 E. Malone Inquiry 32 The verses of the pseudo-bard of the fifteenth century proved, with irresistible force, that the authors of those specimens..could not have lived within the same period.
1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers (ed. 2) 10 O'er Taste awhile these Pseudo-bards prevail.
† pseudo bible n. Obsolete
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1835 R. Southey Doctor III. 27 As justly entitled to the name of the Koran as the so called pseudo-bible itself.
pseudo-book n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊˌbʊk/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌbʊk/
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society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > sham book
pseudo-book1928
1928 D. H. Lawrence Let. 1 Apr. (1932) 718 That was very nice of you, to send me that little pseudo-book full of red gold.
2003 R. C. Solomon Living with Nietzsche 119 In the pseudo-book of Nietzsche's collected notes, The Will to Power, there are many indications about the scope and nature of the nihilism he describes.
pseudo-chemist n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈkɛmɪst/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈkɛməst/
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1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1177 Upon occasion taking it, when prepared by a Pseudo Chymist.
1869 Manufacturer & Builder July 200/3 We need not yet throw away our milk-pails, sauce-pans, etc., at the bidding of this pseudo-chemist.
1904 Science Mar. 444/1 The public naturally became skeptical, and learned to discredit not only the work of these pseudo-chemists, but also the results of the experts.
† pseudo-clerk n. [after post-classical Latin pseudoclericus (from c1250 in British sources), pseudoclerus (1412 in a British source)] Obsolete
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a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 200 (MED) Pseudo-clerkes, for her greet covertise, spuylen symple men as wolves doone sheepe.
pseudo-communism n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈkɑmjəˌnɪz(ə)m/
[compare French pseudo-communisme (1912)]
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > spurious
pseudo-communism1927
1927 M. W. Graham New Governments Eastern Europe 553 With a Social Democratic government in Kaunas, Moscow could make terms with Lithuania on a basis which would bridge the differences between a mildly bourgeois world and a world of pseudo-communism.
2002 E. Brunner Dogmatics II 472 The intellectually mature proletariat of the West, especially of America, has recognized with horror this totalitarian pseudo-communism and disavows it.
pseudo-communist n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈkɒmjᵿnɪst/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈkɑmjənəst/
[originally after French pseudo-communiste (1867, in the passage translated in quot. 1874)]
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > spurious > person
pseudo-communist1874
1874 S. M. Day tr. E. Villetard Hist. Internat. ix. 185 Imprisonment..places in daily contact the pseudo-Communists [Fr. pseudo-communists] of the International and the Blanquistes of the affair of La Renaissance.
1948 Civil & Mil. Gaz. (Lahore) 11 Apr. 1/1 Nineteen workers of the Lahore Mint, suspected to be Communists or pseudo-Communists, were arrested.
2004 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 1 Aug. 13 First came the ‘slum journalists’ of the 1880s, then the temperance campaigners and the pseudo-communists.
pseudo-conversation n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊkɒnvəˌseɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌkɑnvərˌseɪʃ(ə)n/
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > other types of conversation
diabologuea1713
giff-gaff1787
by-dialogue1817
question and answer1817
war-talk1831
fast talk1866
heart-to-heart1904
pseudo-conversation1926
team talk1947
psychodrama1952
catch-up1972
1926 D. H. Lawrence Glad Ghosts 30 The pseudo-conversation was interrupted.
1999 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 67 421 The dialectic of question and answer characteristic of hermeneutics becomes a..pseudo-conversation.
pseudo-criticism n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈkrɪtᵻsɪz(ə)m/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈkrɪdəˌsɪz(ə)m/
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > types of literary criticism
criticism1625
critical theory1799
literary theory1807
autocriticism1820
pseudo-criticism1851
Formgeschichte1923
form-criticism1928
form-history1928
practical criticism1929
New Criticism1941
contextualism1955
patternism1956
objectivism1961
narratology1971
new historicism1972
deconstruction1973
post-structuralism1975
deconstructionism1980
theory1982
1851 Biblical Repertory Apr. 364 Isaiah, not Pseudo-Isaiah, Exposition of his Prophecy, Chap. 40–66, with an introduction opposing the pseudo-criticism, by Dr. R. Stier.
1951 N. Frye in D. Lodge 20th Cent. Lit. Crit. (1972) 423 The literary chit-chat which makes the reputations of poets boom and crash in an imaginary stock exchange is pseudo-criticism.
2002 R. W. Witkin Adorno on Pop. Culture iv. 65 One can see that for Adorno, most of these examples would be dismissed as instances of ‘pseudo-criticism’ much as cultural goods and popular art are labelled pseudo-culture.
pseudo-definition n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊdɛfᵻˌnɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌdɛfəˌnɪʃ(ə)n/
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > an explanation, definition > [noun] > false
pseudo-definition1904
1904 Science Mar. 412/1 Professor Lodge..does not know that the French themselves have repudiated this nauseous pseudo-definition.
2001 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 19 Jan. 17 We find examples masquerading as definitions, and pseudo-definitions such as ‘a random variable is a numerical variate whose value depends on chance,’ which obscure the true nature of the concept.
pseudo-democracy n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊdᵻˈmɒkrəsi/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊdᵻˈmɑkrəsi/
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > state ruled by the people > claiming or purporting to be
republic1604
pseudo-democracy1832
plutodemocracy1902
1832 Star (Gettysburg, Pa.) 17 Jan. The wide difference between democratic principles and pseudo democracy, is seen and understood.
1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot i. v. 161 The result is a pseudo-democracy in a political vacuum.
1991 E. Powell Refl. of Statesman (BNC) 537 The silliest and the most sinful of the many heresies of pseudo-democracy is to pretend that all studies and all learning are ‘created equal’.
pseudo-difficulty n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈdɪfᵻklti/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈdɪfəkəlti/
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > a spurious difficulty
pseudo-problem1903
pseudo-difficulty1905
1905 W. James in Mind 14 194 Closely connected with this pseudo-difficulty is another one of wider scope and greater complication.
1987 Philos. Rev. 96 152 One such ‘pseudo-difficulty’ is that prima facie neither disjunct..is true if there is no present King of France.
pseudo-education n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊɛdjᵿˈkeɪʃn/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊɛdʒᵿˈkeɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌɛdʒəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
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1854 J. Laurie Parent's Guide ii. 92 Your systematic and perfect grounding..of very young children..tends to complete a pseudo-education very early.
1901 Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 3/7 Pseudo-education is spoiling born workers and stifling thinkers in the birth.
1989 M. Warnock Common Policy Educ. (BNC) In the early 1970s, in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education, it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘in the true sense’ and pseudo-education.
pseudo-emotion n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊᵻˈməʊʃn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊəˈmoʊʃ(ə)n/
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/ˌsudoʊiˈmoʊʃ(ə)n/
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > types of emotion > [noun] > false
pseudo-emotion1855
1855 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Mar. 296/2 These precious, priceless words..are warped to denote mere pretended, tawdry, pseudo-emotions.
1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook xv. 206 The scientist..dismissed them with a shrug as pseudoemotions and purely conventional attitudes.
2002 M. La Caze Analytic Imaginary 159 The characteristic emotional response to art is make-believe emotion, or pseudo-emotion.
pseudo-enthusiast n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊᵻnˈθjuːzɪast/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊɛnˈθjuːzɪast/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊᵻnˈθ(j)uziˌæst/
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/ˌsudoʊᵻnˈθ(j)uziəst/
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/ˌsudoʊˌɛnˈθ(j)uziˌæst/
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/ˌsudoʊˌɛnˈθ(j)uziəst/
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1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxvii. 231 This pseudo-enthusiast proposed to visit the great church.
1974 ELH 41 442 James Hervey, and other pseudo-enthusiast worshippers of the whirlwind, put their deflating finger of inflated moralistic prose on our mouths.
pseudo-evangelist n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊᵻˈvan(d)ʒəlɪst/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊᵻˈvan(d)ʒl̩ɪst/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊəˈvændʒələst/
[after post-classical Latin pseudoevangelista (4th cent.; 8th cent. in a British source)]
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1787 T. Jefferson Let. 10 Aug. in Papers (1955) XII. 17 These Pseudo-evangelists pretended to inspiration.
1866 P. Schaff Person of Christ 32 The pseudo-evangelists fill the infancy and early years of the Saviour and his mother with the strangest prodigies.
1998 Valley Independent (Monessen, Pa.) 7 May (TV section) 16/1 TKR must stop a crazed pseudo-evangelist from using a seismic weapon to level Las Vegas.
pseudo-fact n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊfakt/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌfækt/
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > spurious fact
pseudo-fact1872
factoid1973
1872 Times 5 Nov. 5/1 Take his pseudo facts in connexion with the wonderful ‘small company’.
1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art iv. 61 He would not have based his theory on a pseudo-fact.
1999 M. Gould Staying Sober 200 It's a pretty well-established pseudo-fact that addicts will slide away from recovery over virtually anything.
pseudo-Freud n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈfrɔɪd/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈfrɔɪd/
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [noun] > false
pseudo-Freud1951
1951 M. Lowry Let. 25 Aug. (1967) 252 You might call it pseudo-Freud and the philosophy of ‘nothing but’.
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 May 391/2 The mystique is Victorian home~life made..intellectually respectable by pseudo-Freud.
1997 Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. Groans are allowed when the frequently repeated scene of the pseudo-Freud comes up yet again.
pseudo-friar n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈfrʌɪə/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈfraɪər/
[after post-classical Latin pseudofrater (6th cent.; c1190, 14th cent. in British sources)]
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a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 394 (MED) Sum men han travailid to discryve a pseudo frere, for it is certein þat þe pope wiþ hise wingis distrieþ þe Chirche.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xii. 212 ‘Pax vobiscum!’ said the pseudo friar.
1974 Shakespeare Q. 25 13 The formality of the greetings between the pseudo-friar and the quasi-nun.
pseudo-gentility n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊdʒɛnˈtɪlᵻti/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌdʒɛnˈtɪlᵻdi/
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1842 Experiment (Norwalk, Ohio) 1/4 Mary..with all her virtues was tainted with this pseudo-gentility which we combat.
1987 R. Crawford Savage & City in Wk. T. S. Eliot v. 175 One of Eliot's great strengths is his continuing sense of humour; even The Waste Land has Mr Eugenides and the pseudo-gentility of Madame Sosostris's ‘dear Mrs. Equitone’.
pseudo-gentleman n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈdʒɛntlmən/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈdʒɛn(t)lm(ə)n/
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1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 304 I..propose..that we use the term Pseudo-Gentleman, to signify gentleman in its..abused sense.
1991 Sunday Times (Nexis) 13 Jan. Certainly Irons managed the role of a pseudo-gentleman, his eyes moist at the dying gasps of a dissipated aristocracy.
pseudo-grammar n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈɡramə/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈɡræmər/
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > error in grammar > an inferior grammar
pseudo-grammar1927
1927 L. Bloomfield in Mod. Philol. 25 230 Prescientific notions about language, with the silly and dismal study of pseudo-grammar, still prevail in our schools.
1998 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 64 294 Where M&H do not understand, they back up their invention with pseudo-grammar.
pseudo-historicity n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊhɪstəˈrɪsᵻti/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌhɪstəˈrɪsᵻdi/
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > false history
pseudo-history1867
pseudo-historicity1935
1935 Mind 44 407 For the general public of Goethe's day (including Goethe himself and other imaginative writers) the concept ‘Hellenic’ was as little historical as is that of ‘Aryan’ for the modern Nazis;..like it, it entailed a terrific parade of pseudo-historicity.
1994 Sunday Times (Nexis) 17 July Why bother, incidentally, with musical pseudo-historicity when the people on stage do the twist, heaven help us, to minuets and gavottes?
pseudo-history n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈhɪst(ə)ri/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈhɪst(ə)ri/
[compare post-classical Latin pseudo-historia (1654 or earlier)]
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > false history
pseudo-history1867
pseudo-historicity1935
1867 Galaxy 1 Feb. 229 Take an instance from history—or pseudo-history, according to Niebuhr..the story of the Roman Virginius and his daughter.
1946 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. 180 Meyer's great merit lies in his effective criticism of the openly positivistic sociological pseudo-history fashionable in his time.
2006 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 23 Apr. 1 g Nonfiction titles, many of which challenge the pseudo-history of The Da Vinci Code, have also ridden a wave of popularity.
pseudo-isle n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊʌɪl/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌaɪl/
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1844 in Archæol. Jrnl. (1845) 1 347 The pseudo~isle of Purbeck.
1902 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 29 Nov. 9/1 The articles termed Kimmeridge coal money are found only in one locality, in the pseudo-isle of Dorsetshire.
pseudo-knowledge n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈnɒlɪdʒ/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈnɑlədʒ/
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > [noun] > false or spurious knowledge
misknowledgea1500
misknowing1616
pseudo-knowledge1842
1842 W. Newnham Reciprocal Infl. of Body & Mind ii. 24 That pseudo-knowledge..would leave its possessor without a single ray of duty.
1957 C. Day Lewis Poet's Way of Knowl. 16 If you like to think of science as ‘knowledge’, and poetry as at best some kind of ‘pseudo-knowledge’, no one can stop you, but you will be thinking in terms unacceptable to many scientists today.
2005 Times (Nexis) 26 Feb. 24 Improvised, instantly disposable pseudo-knowledge becomes more important than reality.
pseudo-language n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈlaŋɡwɪdʒ/
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/ˈs(j)uːdəʊˌlaŋɡwɪdʒ/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
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/ˈsudoʊˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > artificial or invented language
artificial language1705
natural language1774
Ziph1834
Volapük1885
Esperanto1892
pig Latin1896
pseudo-language1898
Idiom Neutral1903
auxiliary language1905
Panroman1907
universal1907
Ido1908
Mummerset1915
Interlingua1922
Reformed Neutral1922
occidental1926
interlanguage1927
world auxiliary1927
Novial1928
isotype1936
Interglossa1943
Klingon1985
leetspeak1996
leet2001
1898 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 13 356 This pseudo-language..is different from any spoken dialect.
1960 K. M. Delavenay & E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Transl. iv. 47 Georges Mounin rightly distinguishes between pseudolanguages—of which Esperanto is the classic example—intended to be speakable, and inter~languages, designed for use as auxiliary languages, such as the interlingua of Peano or that of Gode and Blair.
2005 Boston Globe (Nexis) 17 Sept. d2 Jon Thor Birgisson sings every song in a paint-peeling falsetto, complete with lyrics in a pseudo-language.
pseudo-legislator n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈlɛdʒᵻsleɪtə/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈlɛdʒəˌsleɪdər/
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1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. x. i. 617 Whether in the character of legislator or pseudo-legislator.
1997 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 July 4 b The governor's got to get involved, too. With his veto authority, he's a pseudo-legislator.
pseudo-life n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊlʌɪf/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈlʌɪf/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌlaɪf/
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/ˌsudoʊˈlaɪf/
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > manner of life > specific
over-living1817
work life1850
pseudo-life1853
half-life1864
vie d'intérieur1889
anti-life1926
1853 Brit. Q. Rev. Feb. 72 Our life, or rather this our present pseudo-life, is a mere fiction and impertinent intrusion among the living.
1942 F. Brown in Unknown Worlds Mar. 6/2 A formula for giving pseudolife to inanimate objects.
2001 S. Walton Out of It (2002) v. 221 What is it about the action of these drugs that causes this obsessive behaviour, and..leads to loss of engagement with reality, a squalid, miserable pseudo-life, and very likely a lapse into crime?
pseudo-linguistics n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > false or petty linguistics
philologastry1893
pseudo-linguistics1962
pseudo-procedure1964
1962 H. A. Gleason in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 86 The reaction to popular pseudo-linguistics.
2004 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 2 May r7 Roy Medvedev deals with the less known but even odder pseudo-linguistics of Nikolai Marr.
pseudo-literature n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈlɪt(ə)rᵻtʃə/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈlɪdər(ə)tʃər/
,
/ˌsudoʊˈlɪdərəˌtʃʊ(ə)r/
,
/ˌsudoʊˈlɪtrəˌtʃʊ(ə)r/
,
/ˌsudoʊˈlɪdərəˌt(j)ʊ(ə)r/
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] > specific types of literature > false or spurious
pseudepigrapha1621
pseudo-literature1890
spuria1918
1890 Mod. Lang. Notes 5 24/2 So much obscure Magazine-verse, juvenile stories of adventure and ephemeral pseudo-literature.
1997 Herald (Glasgow) 7 June 15 The puerile horror-comic sadism with which the story is larded betrays its true station in life as pseudo-literature for adolescents who wear black, dig Goth-rock bands, and don't get out in the fresh air enough.
pseudo-logic n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈlɒdʒɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈlɑdʒɪk/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy
paralogy1646
paralogism1693
pseudo-logic1933
1821 S. T. Coleridge Let. 8 Jan. (1971) V. 133 A disciplinary Analysis of Condillac's ψευδο-Logic.]
1933 R. W. Souter Prolegomena to Relativity Economics 79 Böhm-Bawerkian pseudo-logic holds out delusive promises of a ‘static’ shortcut to final mystic union with Precision—this step will not be taken in our generation.
2004 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 28 June 11 What next if you follow this pseudo-logic? Keep children off TV, no computers for under-18s, and every time you have a school concert make sure you carry out a full body search of the audience?
pseudo medic n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊ ˈmɛdɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊ ˈmɛdɪk/
[originally after classical Latin pseudomedicus (1608 in the passage translated in quot. 1657); compare French pseudo-médecin (1610)]
ΚΠ
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. iv, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. R4v He derides the vanity..of the Pseudomedick [L. pseudomedici].
1926 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 29 Nov. 1/6 An effort to rid the city of pseudo-medics who prey on the sick.
2004 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 13 Sept. 3 The trend could actually be putting lives in danger as we become a nation of pseudo medics with an inflated opinion of our first aid knowledge.
pseudo-minister n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈmɪnᵻstə/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmɪnəstər/
ΚΠ
1680 G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 2 This Rebellious Pseudo-Minister.
1970 Lima (Ohio) News 3 Jan. 16/3 Often times these pseudo-ministers have what we call ‘The gift of gab’, and like to do public speaking.
1984 Z. Lanir Israeli Security Planning 1980s 57 Since the roles of the defense minister and the prime minister were separated in 1967, the chief of staff has become a pseudo-minister.
pseudo-moralist n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈmɒrəlɪst/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈmɒrl̩ɪst/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmɔrələst/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > pretended morality > follower of
pseudo-moralist1852
1852 T. J. Vaiden Rational Relig. & Morals 151 The pseudo-moralists are alarmed at the state of their bibles of tradition.
1964 A. Wykes Gambling ii. 50 The Victorian pseudo-moralists who screamed..of the dangers of drink and gambling were for the most part unthinking pleasure~stiflers.
2000 Independent (Nexis) 9 Apr. 45 The title is a reference to the verse in Leviticus, whose true significance is so often debated by the moralists and pseudo-moralists of the Christian Churches.
pseudo-morality n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊməˈralᵻti/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊməˈrælədi/
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/ˌsudoʊˌmɔˈrælədi/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > pretended morality
pseudo-morality1846
1846 Times 25 Feb. 5/5 False philanthropists..are always ready to put forth an ostentatious force of sentimental pseudo-morality to save the murderer from death.
1943 Mind 52 19 This is the morality of obedience at its best and surest. Doubtless it is easily confused with the pseudo-morality of sanctions.
2005 Modesto (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 19 July b7 I occasionally pass self-serve fruit stands. Their innocence brings tears to my eyes, and offers a ray of hope in today's whirlwind of fractured ethics and pseudo-morality.
pseudo-Moses n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈməʊzᵻz/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmoʊzəz/
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/ˌsudoʊˈmoʊzəs/
ΚΠ
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. x. 136 Nicephorus mentioneth a Pseudo-Moyses of the Iews..destroyed..with his Complices in a like rebellion.
1923 Iowa City Press-Citizen 31 July 1/6 His condition should not be seized upon by every pseudo Moses in the bullrushes to deal a solar plexus blow at the whole agricultural industry.
2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Feb. 5 Seagulls fans allege they were misled by a pseudo-Moses who convinced his fellow directors that selling the Goldstone Ground to property developers was the only way out of impending bankruptcy.
pseudo-mystic n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈmɪstɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmɪstɪk/
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > false > person
pseudo-mystic1852
navel-contemplator1856
yogi-bogey1901
1852 tr. B. G. Niebuhr Let. 12 July 1812 in Life & Lett. vii. 235 With equal warmth do I sympathize in your indignation against the pseudo-Mystics [Ger. gegen die angeblichen Mystiker].
1961 Encounter Feb. 78 Hugh Kingsmill described Lawrence as ‘a pseudo-mystic’.
2001 Independent (Nexis) 26 May 11 A blackmailer, who knows rather too much about her past as a pseudo-mystic.
pseudo-mysticism n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈmɪstᵻsɪz(ə)m/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmɪstəˌsɪz(ə)m/
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > false
mysticism1722
pseudo-mysticism1882
yogi-bogey1943
1882 Littell's Living Age 5 Aug. 312/2 A pseudo-mysticism is patched on to the grossest sensuality.
1998 Scotsman (Nexis) 13 Aug. 6 Dance critics tend to lament what they see as vulgar pseudo-mysticism.
pseudo-need n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊˌniːd/
,
U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌnid/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > [noun] > a false need
pseudo-need1887
1887 Polit. Sci. Q. 2 622 Desires or requirements for other ends than those of useful service for self or others are pseudo-needs, illegitimate in economy as in ethics.
1991 Oxf. Art Jrnl. (BNC) The declamatory style of writing (which now seems dated) too often obscured the probity of the Situationist's critique of the alienating and manipulative effects of late capitalism and its creation of pseudo-needs.
pseudo-Nicodemite n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊnɪkəˈdiːmʌɪt/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌnɪkəˈdiˌmaɪt/
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1658 J. Durham Comm. Bk. Revelation 582 This doctrine was much urged against the Pseudo-nicodemites.
pseudo-objectivity n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊɒbdʒɛkˈtɪvᵻti/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊɒbdʒᵻkˈtɪvᵻti/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌɑbdʒɛkˈtɪvᵻdi/
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > objectivity > [noun] > pseudo-objectivity
pseudo-objectivity1923
1923 C. C. Josey Race & National Security 28 They [sc. categorical imperatives] supply a sort of pseudo-objectivity.
2000 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 7 May 12 That is a rare outburst of pseudo-objectivity in an absorbing and informative study.
pseudo-parson n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈpɑːsn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈpɑrs(ə)n/
ΚΠ
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. lxvi. 293 The pseudo-parson was very much affected by this generous proffer.
1833 Times 31 Jan. 4/1 Mr. Robert Taylor (not the pseudo parson) was yesterday charged with intermarrying with Miss Frances Sadler, his first wife, Ann Carpenter.
1994 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 6 May 7 Christopher Michaels effectively doubles as another job applicant and a lecherous pseudo-parson with unspiritual things on his mind.
pseudo-passive n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈpasɪv/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈpæsɪv/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > voice > [noun] > passive > pseudo-passive
pseudo-passive1911
1911 Mod. Lang. Notes 26 222/1 The real present passive with werden is more appropriate than the pseudo-passive with sind.
1997 L. H. Cornelis Passive & Perspective 85 The question to be answered in this section is therefore whether the analysis also holds for those passives that are sometimes called ‘pseudo-passives’.
pseudo-passivization n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊpasᵻvᵻˈzeɪʃn/
,
/ˌs(j)uːdəʊpasᵻvʌɪˈzeɪʃn/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌpæsəvəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
,
/ˌsudoʊˌpæsəˌvaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > voice > [noun] > passive > pseudo-passive > conversion into
pseudo-passivization1965
1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax 106 Where ‘on the boat’ is a V[erb]-Complement in ‘John decided on the boat’ (meaning ‘John chose the boat’), it is subject to pseudopassivization by the passive transformation.
1993 Eng. Today July 57/2 A functional approach to English constructions in which prepositions are deferred to the end of a sentence by means of wh-movement, pseudo-passivization, and other processes the author rightly brings in.
pseudo-patriot n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈpatrɪət/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈpeɪtrɪət/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈpeɪtriət/
ΚΠ
1734 W. Forbes Patriots 9 Since had these Pseudo-Patriots gain'd, An equal Fate we had sustain'd.
1846 B. R. Hall Something for Every Body xli. 155 A more soulless hypocrite exists not, than a pseudo-patriot and pseudo-philanthropist.
1997 Scotsman (Nexis) 30 Oct. 18 The rational case for scepticism is dogged by dotty pseudo-patriots indulging the fantasy of England imperial and alone.
pseudo-patron n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈpeɪtr(ə)n/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈpeɪtrən/
ΚΠ
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. i. 6 A British satirist, of this generation, has courage enough to call in question the talents of a Pseudo-patron, in power, accuse him of insolence, rancour and scurrility.
1832 Times 26 June 2/5 It should have got into the hands of a pseudo patron.
1975 S. Atlantic Bull. 40 54 Pseudopatrons of the arts.
2004 Pharmacy News (Nexis) Apr. 16 The pseudo-patron enters the pharmacy and requests either the purchase of a non-prescription medicine or treatment for a symptom.
pseudo-perspective n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊpəˌspɛktɪv/
,
U.S. /ˈsudoʊpərˌspɛktɪv/
ΚΠ
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xx. 213 Inlaid with mock arcades in pseudo-perspective.
1992 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 53 214 In the history of art, there are ‘perspectives’ associated with particular periods, such as herringbone and vanishing axis pseudo-perspectives.
pseudo-philanthropist n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊfᵻˈlanθrəpɪst/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊfəˈlænθrəpəst/
ΚΠ
1836 Times 28 July 4/7 To any of your friends who are no pseudo-philanthropists, you ought to mention this as a measure likely to benefit a portion of the human race immersed in the deepest brutality and ignorance.
1990 I. Bernstein New York City Draft Riots 183 For the first time, the AICP associated the inappropriate relief measures of the ‘pseudo-philanthropist’ with the overtures to the poor made by Democratic reformers and politicians.
pseudo-philosopher n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊfᵻˈlɒsəfə/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊfəˈlɑsəfər/
[compare Byzantine Greek ψευδοϕιλόσοϕος (5th cent.)]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosopher > [noun] > pseudo-philosopher
foolosopher1549
philosophaster1611
pseudo-philosopher1749
philosophling1815
plausible1831
philosophunculist1840
pseudosopher1843
1749 B. Martin Panegyrick Newtonian Philos. 21 We now see it clearly prov'd that Light is not a Quality of Bodies, (as the Pseudo Philosophers taught).
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 63 The tenets professed by its votaries, if not directly atheistical, had so much tendency thereto, that it was difficult to apply any other appellation to the faith of these pseudo philosophers.
1966 Eng. Stud. 47 154 In the mid-twentieth century the typical Bohemian has become the beatnik poet or pseudo~philosopher.
1993 NewsLine Royal Bank of Scotl. (BNC) Please don't send along the young pseudo-philosopher who will tell us for the umpteenth time that, of course, he fully understands the Bank's attitude.
pseudo-philosophy n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊfᵻˈlɒsəfi/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊfəˈlɑsəfi/
[compare post-classical Latin pseudophilosophia (a1540)]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > [noun] > pseudo-philosophy
foolosophy1592
night-philosophy1677
pseudo-philosophya1817
pseudosophy1839
philosophastry1850
philosophistry1880
a1817 J. Austen Sanditon (1925) vii. 92 It were Hyper-criticism, it were Pseudo-philosophy to expect from the soul of high toned Genius, the grovellings of a common mind.
1897 H. M. Cecil (title) Pseudo-philosophy at the end of the nineteenth century: an irrationalist trio: Kidd, Drummond, Balfour.
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 14 Apr. 3/3 Schoolchildren were forced to study the Ruhnama , a weird stream-of-consciousness book by Mr Niyazov, full of disjointed pseudo-philosophy and slogans.
pseudo-poet n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈpəʊᵻt/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈpoʊət/
[compare post-classical Latin pseudopoeta (1344 in a British source)]
ΚΠ
1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) , (Mock License) A certain Pretender, Pseudo-Poet, or Phantom, of the name of Tibbald.
1831 Fraser's Mag. 2 78 Ruin would fall not only upon the head of the pseudo-poet, but his shivering bepraisers.
1994 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 3 Jan. 7 The teachers are either poetry groupies or pseudo-poets when they come out of the classrooms.
pseudo-politician n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊpɒlᵻˈtɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌpɑləˈtɪʃ(ə)n/
ΚΠ
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) i. iii. ii. iv. 195 So must I needs..bitterly taxe those tyrannising Pseudopolititians.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. i. 165 All the herd of pseudo politicians in New Amsterdam.
1998 Mideast Mirror (Nexis) 23 Nov. Washington will have exacted its revenge against the Iraqi people by imposing such pseudo-politicians as their rulers.
† pseudo-presager n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 365 Praestigious sacrificers, and pseudopresagers.
pseudo-priest n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈpriːst/
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/ˈs(j)uːdəʊˌpriːst/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈprist/
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/ˈsudoʊˌprist/
[after post-classical Latin pseudopresbyter (4th cent.; c1343, 15th cent. in British sources), pseudosacerdos (3rd cent.; 1378 in a British source), in turn probably after Hellenistic Greek ψευδιερεύς; compare also Byzantine Greek ψευδοπρεσβύτερος false priest (5th cent.), also ψευδοπρεσβύτης false elder (4th cent.)]
ΚΠ
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 173 (MED) Here it is a skilful þing, ȝif pseudo-preestis prechen amys, þat bishopis letten hem to preche.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine 108 An odious instrument (Jason the Pseudo-Priest) pressed the wearing of them [sc. hats].
1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate II. xvi. 157 They became assured that the pseudo priest was no other than the hateful agent of British tyranny, the loathed and detestable Randolph.
1993 Numen 40 191 That pseudo-priest cannot conclude the marriage.
pseudo-principle n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊˌprɪnsᵻpl/
,
U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌprɪnsəp(ə)l/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical reasoning > [noun] > deductivism or a priori reasoning > a principle or axiom > pseudo-principle
pseudo-principle1846
1846 Times 5 Aug. 5/5 It is utterly antagonistic to the new, the pseudo-principle of commerce, now so much vaunted.
1993 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Oct. 21 Alas, self-interest masquerading as constitutional pseudo-principle.
pseudo-procedure n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊprəˌsiːdʒə/
,
U.S. /ˈsudoʊprəˌsidʒər/
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/ˈsudoʊproʊˌsidʒər/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > false or petty linguistics
philologastry1893
pseudo-linguistics1962
pseudo-procedure1964
the world > action or operation > manner of action > [noun] > system or way of proceeding > a particular > spurious
pseudo-procedure1964
1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. vii. 218 Where he has learned..such a sheer quantity of linguistic material..testing all of it becomes a ‘pseudo~procedure’; it just cannot be done.
1965 Language 41 206 Scholastic pseudo-procedures of discovery.
1983 Trans. Inst. Brit. Geographers 8 172 In order to maintain comparability with the first two edge definition results, the pseudo procedure was used.
pseudo-proverb n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊˌprɒvəːb/
,
U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌprɑvərb/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > proverb > [noun] > false
pseudo-proverb1906
1906 N.Y. Times 7 Apr. 234/2 The idea of this pseudo-proverb is old; it is in the Bible.
1992 Independent (Nexis) 12 June 16 It's open season this week for the folk wisdom of the higher platitude... The first of these pseudo-proverbs is spoken by Brad Pitt in Johnny Suede.
pseudo-question n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊˌkwɛstʃ(ə)n/
,
/ˈs(j)uːdəʊˌkwɛstjən/
,
U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌkwɛstʃ(ə)n/
,
/ˈsudoʊˌkwɛʃtʃ(ə)n/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > act or instance of > spurious
pseudo-question1932
1932 Q. Rev. Biol. 7 403/1 When dealing with the pseudo-question of proving by logic one's own existence we utilized Napoleon Bonaparte in an illustrative way.
2004 Times (Nexis) 29 Oct. 78 Poets are especially fond of pseudo-questions.
pseudo-religion n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊrᵻˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/
,
/ˈs(j)uːdəʊrᵻˌlɪdʒ(ə)n/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊrəˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/
,
/ˌsudoʊriˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/
,
/ˈsudoʊrəˌlɪdʒ(ə)n/
,
/ˈsudoʊriˌlɪdʒ(ə)n/
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [noun]
dwildOE
misbeliefa1225
heresy?c1225
sect13..
misbelieving1340
irreligion1592
miscredence1603
steal-truth1628
Zendicism1697
pseudo-religion1856
Manichaeism1894
1856 De Bow's Rev. June 740 No ridiculous humbugs about women's rights, false philanthropy or pseudo religion.
1927 A. Huxley Proper Stud. 220 There is a powerful religion, or rather pseudo-religion, of sexual purity.
2003 J. R. Lewis Legitimating New Religions 175 The issue is whether a given religion is legitimate and should be protected, or a harmful religion (often portrayed as a pseudo-religion) that should be repressed.
pseudo-simplicity n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊsɪmˈplɪsᵻti/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌsɪmˈplɪsədi/
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > absence of complexity > false or pretended
pseudo-simplicity1872
1872 Chambers's Encycl. II. 712/1 The pseudo-simplicity of the Welsh is the result of grammatical decay, common in all Aryan languages.
1998 Scotsman (Nexis) 5 Sept. 14 In its curious pseudo-simplicity, is it to be accepted as a moral fable, or is Jenkins walking close to a dangerous edge where realism gives way to improbability?
† pseudo-theologician n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1649 C. Walker Anarchia Anglicana To Rdr. A Combination or Faction of Pseudo-Polititians, and Pseudo-Theologitians, Heretics and Schismaticks.
pseudo-theology n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊθɪˈɒlədʒi/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊθiˈɑlədʒi/
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > [noun] > false
pseudo-theology1832
1832 Biblical Repertory Jan. 69 French and English Deists may hide their diminished heads before that most refined and sublimated form of unbelief—the pseudo-theology of modern German critics.
1940 C. S. Lewis Let. 17 Jan. (1966) 176 You will presently see both a Leftist and a Rightist pseudo~theology developing.
2004 Washington Times (Nexis) 31 Aug. a16 Khomeini's pioneering pseudo-theology was later picked up by Sunni extremists, including Osama bin Laden.
pseudo-thesis n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈθiːsɪs/
,
/ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈθɛsɪs/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈθisᵻs/
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [noun] > affirmation or predication > assertion or thesis > pseudo-thesis
pseudo-thesis1855
1855 J. B. Walker God revealed in Process Creation 270 The principles of honor and right are vindicated by our pseudo-thesis in another form.
1993 J. Skorupski English-Lang. Philos. 204 Carnap went over to a preference for physicalistic language, while Neurath was persuaded that physicalism was a metaphysical pseudo-thesis.
pseudo-word n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdə(ʊ)wəːd/
,
U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌwərd/
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word
hard word1533
household word1574
magic word1581
grandam words1598
signal word1645
book worda1670
wordie1718
my whole1777
foundling1827–38
keyword1827
Mesopotamia1827
thought-word1844
word-symbol1852
nursery word1853
pivot word1865
rattler1865
object word1876
pillow word1877
nonce-word1884
non-word1893
fossil1901
blessed word1910
bogy-word1919
catch-all1922
pseudo-word1929
false friend1931
plus word1939
descriptor1946
meta-word1952
discourse marker1967
shrub2008
1929 Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, Minnesota) 18 Dec. 2/3 Why is the pseudo word Xmas used?
2006 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 21 Feb. 1 b ‘Functionality’ is a flabby, self-important pseudo-word.
† pseudo-zealot n. Obsolete
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1680 G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 70 Twenty six..of these Heroical Pseudo-Zealots.
1831 Times 16 Apr. 3/2 Were the rights of the people of Jamaica to be sacrificed in compliance with the wishes of pseudo-zealots?
b. Prefixed to adjectives.
pseudo-American adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊəˈmɛrᵻk(ə)n/
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[compare French pseudo-américain (1929 or earlier)]
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > [adjective]
American1580
transatlantic1782
pan-American1879
New World1886
all-American1889
pseudo-American1938
1938 M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds xix. 340 ‘Have I ever let you down, kiddo?’ The pseudo-American accent was slick.
1986 D. Potter Singing Detective i. 19 Amanda's speech is full of wrong notes, pseudo-American with an undertow of cockney and occasional diversions into Mayfair-idiot-upper-class, a 1940s nightclub mix.
pseudo-antique adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊanˈtiːk/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌænˈtik/
[compare French pseudo-antique (1832 or earlier)]
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > olde or suggesting spurious antiquity
olde1850
ye olde1850
pseudo-antique1854
1854 J. C. Nott & G. R. Gliddon Types of Mankind i. v. 163 Morton..too hastily adopted ancient Egypto-Chinese connexions, on the faith of certain pseudo-antique Chinese ‘vases’.
1992 Time 6 July 70/2 The only thing the roles have in common is that both show off his grace with language, whether Wilde's shimmering, overripe, pseudo-antique prose poetry, or Lewis' quintessentially Manhattan cocktail of complaint and cranky insult comedy.
pseudo-Aristotelian adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊarᵻstəˈtiːlɪən/
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1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxvii. 503 In one of the Aristotelian or Pseudo-Aristotelian treatises.
1997 Independent (Nexis) 6 Sept. 2 In a confident flourish he finally impales the poor orphaned pseudo-Aristotelian phrase that he has pursued throughout the book.
pseudo-divine adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊdᵻˈvʌɪn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊdəˈvaɪn/
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > falsely divine
pseudo-divine1887
1887 Times 24 Feb. 9/5 The sarcasm on the pseudo-divine ordinance of five per cent.
1950 D. Gascoyne Vagrant 33 To be with God, and not pseudo-divine Scorn-inspired self-deceivers.
2001 Independent (Nexis) 26 May 8 In Derry, practically everywhere is at the end of a paper trail leading back to one guy, Garvan O'Doherty, whose initials contrive a pseudo-divine posture.
pseudo-dramatic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊdrəˈmatɪk/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊdrəˈmædɪk/
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1868 Times 19 Sept. 4/5 The Queen falling on her knees and making the following pseudo-dramatic appeal to the guardian powers of innocence.
1872 J. R. Lowell Milton in Literary Ess. (1890) IV. 65 Impertinent details of what we must call the pseudo-dramatic kind.
1993 D. Lodge Picturegoers (BNC) 227 The pseudo-dramatic build-up for the band was an irritating formality.
pseudo-Elizabethan adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊᵻlɪzəˈbiːθn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊəˌlɪzəˈbiθ(ə)n/
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/ˌsudoʊiˌlɪzəˈbiθ(ə)n/
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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > Tudor > pseudo-Elizabethan
pseudo-Elizabethan1896
1896 N.Y. Times 12 Apr. 30/5 It is written throughout in this pseudo-Elizabethan dialect.
1991 P. Fussell BAD 75 Some very BAD institutions came out with immensely wide pseudo-Elizabethan hats—unwittingly comic when worn by professors of accounting and marketing.
pseudo-existing adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊᵻɡˈzɪstɪŋ/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊɛɡˈzɪstɪŋ/
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > pseudo-existing
pseudo-existing1904
1904 B. Russell in Mind 13 353 False propositions, according to Meinong, are the non-subsisting, merely pseudo-existing objectives of erroneous judgments.
1982 M.-L. Schubert-Kalsi in R. Bruzina & B. Wilshire Phenomenology 215 There are, then, in the subject, the presenting experiences, intellectual and emotional ones, and the pseudo-existing objects, objectives, values and obligations.
pseudo-Georgian adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈdʒɔːdʒ(ə)n/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈdʒɔrdʒ(ə)n/
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > mock-Georgian, -Victorian, or -Renaissance
pseudo-Georgian1905
neo-Georgian1933
Victorianized1946
Victorian-Italianate1963
1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth i. i. 8 Its marble porch and pseudo-Georgian façade.
2000 J. Attfield Wild Things 203 The introduction of particular features such as pseudo-Georgian doors..became common upgrading signifiers.
pseudo-historic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊhɪˈstɒrɪk/
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [adjective] > pseudo-historical
pseudo-historical1847
pseudo-historic1853
1853 H. Rogers Reason & Faith viii. 447 When the particles of which these consist are no longer held in solution, but condense themselves into a pseudo-historic form, they never crystallize.
1919 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism I. i. v. 51 The soul of moral philosophy was ius naturale, which is..pure ethics in a pseudo-historic guise.
1995 Guardian 14 July (Friday Review section) 6/3 Robert's postulating and mythicising of a pseudo-historic matriarchy, and Nancy's feminism..were no match for Nancy's quick loss of her tomboyish good looks and her lack of literary interests.
pseudo-historical adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊhɪˈstɒrᵻkl/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌhɪˈstɔrək(ə)l/
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [adjective] > pseudo-historical
pseudo-historical1847
pseudo-historic1853
1847 Littell's Living Age 9 Oct. 52/2 He might have bestowed the additional pains necessary to give an artistic form to the materials..without resorting to the deceptive illusion of a pseudo-historical garb.
1905 O. Jespersen Growth & Struct. Eng. Lang. x. 246 That pseudo-historical and anti-educational abomination, the English spelling.
1993 Shakespeare Bull. Summer 27/2 The usual superfluous and pseudo-historical claims for the minimalist five-actor ACTER performance aesthetic.
pseudo-infantile adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈɪnfəntʌɪl/
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the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > falsely childlike
pseudo-infantile1910
1910 Amer. Anthropologist 12 612/1 The so-called ‘infantile characters’ of the female skull..are pseudo-infantile.
1997 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 June c1 He was already looking hard at art: at the primitivist, pseudo-infantile work of the Belgian painter Pierre Alechinsky, at album-cover psychedelia, at Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollock.
pseudo-literary adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈlɪt(ə)rəri/
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1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 585 The literary, or rather the pseudo-literary history of the first half of the sixteenth century.
1958 Listener 20 Feb. 334/3 The Naked Sun is a happy wedding of the two great pseudo-literary forms of the century—science fiction and the 'tec.
2001 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 7 Aug. 13 Warehouse is doing a white oneshoulder ‘Edwardian lace’ top, which sounds like it might be something that could easily be pictured in some kind of pseudo-literary erotic magazine.
† pseudo-localizing adj. Obsolete
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1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 658 The pseudo-localising symptoms..are apt to lead to an erroneous opinion as to the exact position of the new growth.
pseudo-logical adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈlɒdʒᵻkl/
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1879 Scribner's Monthly May 124/2 A witticism illustrating itself in action, a pseudo-logical demonstration leading to an absurd and merry end.
1994 Independent (Nexis) 9 Apr. 28 All this insistence on pseudo-logical pseudo-stages makes one suspect, in a tired and angry way, that what one is reading is only a pseudo-novel.
pseudo-Marxist adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈmɑːksɪst/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmɑrksəst/
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [adjective] > relating to Marxism > spuriously Marxist
pseudo-Marxist1917
Marxoid1946
1917 Times 29 Sept. 5/7 He argues that the present belief of the German Socialist Majority that small States must be ‘absorbed’ by large ones is a pseudo-Marxist fallacy.
1991 Atlantic Feb. 26/3 Iraqis are handicapped by the pseudo-Marxist indoctrination of the ruling Baath Party, which has warped their native sensibility.
pseudo-mechanical adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊmᵻˈkanᵻkl/
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1911 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 25 417 It has no direct relation to the pseudo-mechanical problem of economic equilibrium.
1946 Mind 55 360 When we ask what in fact constitutes the order or form of the vegetative realm or any below the highest one, the answer is given in terms derived from human experience and purpose. Or else it is a worse answer in pseudo-mechanical, pseudo-psychological terms, like ‘vital force’.
2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 24 Oct. 10 His robot-like, pseudo-mechanical sculptures began to take on geometrical proportions at the beginning of the sixties.
pseudo-medical adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈmɛdᵻkl/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmɛdək(ə)l/
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective] > pseudo-medical
pseudo-medical1841
1841 Times 24 July 5/5 Let the inquiry be undertaken by..men who are acquainted with the wonders of physical science, and not by pseudo-medical reformers and political practitioners.
1908 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 28 Nov. 1860/2 Among the pseudo-medical institutions that have been investigated and closed through fraud orders by the Post-office Department was a Cincinnati concern known as the Epileptic Institute.
2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 20 Apr. 17 It [sc. the Holocaust archive] includes records for more than 17.5 million people, including sensitive information such as records of hereditary diseases, pseudo-medical experiments and reasons for arrest.
pseudo-medieval adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊmɛd(ɪ)ˈiːvl/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊmiːd(ɪ)ˈiːvl/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌmid(i)ˈiv(ə)l/
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/ˌsudoʊməˈdiv(ə)l/
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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > of the Middle Ages > pseudo-medieval
pseudo-medieval1883
1883 ‘V. Lee’ Let. 6 July (1937) 124 Someone, in a nasal voice, sang a long, long pseudo mediæval ballad... It felt so completely high art.
1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iv. 117 Too often a designer who happily experiments with plant forms and animals will, when confronted with the human figure, resort to the hackneyed, pseudo-medieval figure in the nebulous draped garment which is so often seen in church work.
2004 D. D. Volvo & J. M. Volvo Antebellum Period 131 In an attempt to get away from the boxlike symmetry of the more classical Georgian style, Walpole included arched windows, pseudo-Medieval battlements and parapets, and other Gothic details to the design.
pseudo-military adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈmɪlᵻt(ə)ri/
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1833 Times 30 Mar. 1/2 He therefore asked every honest Englishman who heard him not to hand over the people of Ireland to these mongrel pseudo-military tribunals.
1986 D. Carey Dreadnought iii. 40 His face was a herding of pseudomilitary pomp.
2002 P. Goodman Women, Sexuality & War 116 The semiotics of uniforms became invested with new meanings, opportunist designers created fashions for women fused with military or pseudo-military images.
pseudo-mystical adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈmɪstᵻkl/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmɪstək(ə)l/
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [adjective] > spuriously
pseudo-mystical1874
1874 F. W. Farrar Life of Christ I. xxx. 418 A sentence which surely renders nugatory much of the pseudo-mystical and impossibly-elaborate exegesis by which the plain meaning of this chapter has been obscured.
1933 Mind 42 184 It is indeed to the Greeks, or at any rate to Plato, that this argument, not inconsistently with its quasi-Kantian, Christian or Hebraic (and some will say, pseudo-mystical) flavour, harks back.
1999 Mixmag Apr. 71/1 It has muscled its way into the UK charts, most notably with Faithless's take on it, complete with big synth stabs and pseudo-mystical lyrics.
pseudo-patriotic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊpatrɪˈɒtɪk/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊpeɪtrɪˈɒtɪk/
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1865 G. A. Townsend Life, Crime, & Capture of John Wilkes Booth 42 A principal in a real conspiracy, the aims of which were pseudo-patriotic.
1997 A. Barnett This Time vii. 215 Especially in relation to Europe, British leaders feel obliged to stick with pseudo-patriotic formulas about sovereignty and their version of ‘no surrender’.
pseudo-perpetual adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊpəˈpɛtʃʊəl/
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/ˌs(j)uːdəʊpəˈpɛtʃ(ᵿ)l/
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1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 235 A Pseudo-perpetual motion made by the descent of several guilt bullets upon an indented declivity.
1991 M. Gardner New Age 145 Windmills, water wheels, and machines that run on tidal or solar energy are other examples of pseudo-perpetual motion because they require outside energy.
pseudo-philosophic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊfɪləˈsɒfɪk/
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > [adjective] > pseudo-philosophical
pseudo-philosophic1837
pseudo-philosophical1842
1837 Southern Lit. Messenger July 436/1 Proclaim in pseudo-philosophic tone.
1922 C. Bell Since Cézanne 82 We shall then be armed..against the portentous ‘Ist’, whose parthenogenetic masterpiece we are not in a state to relish till we have sucked down the pseudo-philosophic bolus that embodies his eponymous ‘Ism’.
2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 Apr. 18 Wittgenstein's mission was to stamp out pseudo-philosophic posturing and empty verbiage.
pseudo-philosophical adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊfɪləˈsɒfᵻkl/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌfɪləˈsɑfək(ə)l/
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > [adjective] > pseudo-philosophical
pseudo-philosophic1837
pseudo-philosophical1842
1842 Times 8 Jan. 5/4 The pseudo philosophical age which followed on the age of Charles, strove to undervalue the actions of the hero, in favour of the cold-hearted philosopher of Sans Souci.
1940 Mind 49 99 The encumbrance of these largely parasitic philosophical and pseudo-philosophical ideas.
1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 9 Nov. (Review section) R2/2 The gnomic austerities of Wittgenstein's Tractus Logico-Philosophicus were welcomed by the first generation to read it, in 1921, as cleansing their minds of decades of accumulated pseudo-philosophical dreck.
pseudo-poetic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊpəʊˈɛtɪk/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌpoʊˈɛdɪk/
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1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 19 Pope's..translation of Homer, which, I do not stand alone in regarding as the main source of our pseudo-poetic diction.
1996 A. Piette Remembering & Sound of Words 213 The shift in the subject's gaze, though superficially evading the pseudo-poetic sublime of the mourner at the graveside, is ineluctably sliding into the rhetoric it would wish to suppress.
† pseudo-politic adj. Obsolete
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1684 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 369 A Pseudopolitic adherence to the French Interest.
pseudo-psychological adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊsʌɪkəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > tendency to psychological explanation > [adjective] > falsely psychological
pseudo-psychological1897
1897 G. T. Ladd Philos. Knowl. 197 The philosophical doctrine of knowledge requires something more than either the grammatical, or the logical, or the pseudo-psychological account of these distinctions.
1997 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. 19/1 It is a ridiculous pseudo-psychological fad.
pseudo-realistic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊrɪəˈlɪstɪk/
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1883 Times 12 Oct. 3/7 This pseudo-realistic literature..is rather similar to those small Dutch carvings in bone, which somewhat clumsily imitate the Japanese netzkés in ivory.
1930 Art Bull. 12 164 The pseudorealistic arrangement in the latter..is a hardening of a scene originally illusionistic.
2006 Miami Herald (Nexis) 10 Feb. 25 A pseudo-realistic policy of using supposedly benign dictators to repress Islamic extremists.
pseudo-reformed adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊrᵻˈfɔːmd/
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c1853 A. W. Mitchell Waldenses xxiv. 262 Bringing the followers of the pseudo-reformed religion to reason.
1996 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Jan. t4 In 1989, a coalition of pseudo-reformed communists, campaigning under the banner of Socialism, removed the old tyrant..from office.
pseudo-religious adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊrᵻˈlɪdʒəs/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊrəˈlɪdʒəs/
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society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [adjective]
dwal-kennedc1175
misbelievedc1225
dwalea1325
misbelievingc1330
land-leaping1377
hereticc1384
heretical1532
sinistral1542
sinistrous1562
unsound1597
pseudo-religious1672
Manichaeistic1924
1672 H. More Brief Reply 3 I add superstitious..; and by superstitious, I understand pseudoreligious, if I may so speak, that is false, or depraved religious worship.
1896 Folk-lore 7 276 It is curious to note in connection with these pseudo-religious drinking-vessels that at St. Teilo's well..a skull is used as a cup.
1943 K. Mannheim Diagnosis of our Time vii. 102 It is not a matter of chance that both Communism and Fascism try to..superimpose a pseudo-religious integration.
1996 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 34 184 A black American ex-civil rights leader who establishes a pseudo-religious cult..to service his own greed, powermania, and polygamous lust.
pseudo-revolutionary adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˌrɛvəˈl(j)uːʃn̩(ə)ri/
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1879 Appletons' Jrnl. Oct. 346/2 ‘Robespierres on horseback’—an expression of so doubtful a value that it..reminds us of the pseudo-revolutionary language of Napoleonism.
1978 China Reconstructs Nov. 5/1 Their pseudo-revolutionary line and its counter-revolutionary aims are being thoroughly criticized.
2004 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Apr. 16 The most likely electoral antidote to Mr Humala, and to US fears of another destabilising regional lurch into pseudo-revolutionary populism, is Lourdes Flores Nano.
pseudo-romantic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊrə(ʊ)ˈmantɪk/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌroʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > [adjective] > falsely romantic
pseudo-romantic1839
1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminisc. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 93/1 As yet..false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage, had not violated the most awful solitudes.
1927 R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art 29 The degenerate romantic and pseudo-romantic art of the nineteenth century.
2000 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. i. 34/2 Many of the short virtuosic pieces that you hear played on the erhu or dizi are the product of modern composers writing in a pseudo-romantic Western style for the concert hall.
pseudo-sophisticated adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊsəˈfɪstᵻkeɪtᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊsəˈfɪstəˌkeɪdᵻd/
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective]
untheweda1325
unbenec1400
incondite1539
undight1555
ungentle1565
impolished1583
transalpinea1592
impolited1598
uncourtly1598
tartarous1602
impolite1612
unelevated1627
unfashioned1630
unbrushed1640
unhewed1644
hirsute1658
unhewn1659
inelegant1667
sordid1668
ingenteel1694
barbarous1700
ungracefula1732
tramontane1740
uninformed1754
clumsy1758
heavy1817
uncharmed1818
nettle-rough1850
blowzy1851
mal élevé1878
inexquisite1922
pseudo-sophisticated1925
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > [adjective] > spuriously
pseudo-sophisticated1925
1925 Eng. Jrnl. 14 741 Michael Arlen contributes an ultra- (and pseudo-) sophisticated tale.
2000 J. Mann Murder, Magic, & Med. (rev. ed.) iii. 106 But this pseudo-sophisticated use of mescaline and analogues should be considered alongside the complex rituals of collection and consumption of peyote that are still practised by the Huichol Indians of Mexico.
pseudo-Spanish adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈspanɪʃ/
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Iberian peninsula and islands > [adjective] > Spain
Spanish1485
pseudo-Spanish1880
1880 Bismarck (Dakota Territory) Tribune 16 Apr. 7/2 A usurer..consented to lend the money which the pseudo-Spanish lady required.
1990 R. Giroux Deed of Death i. 6 All eight were built of white stucco in a pseudo-Spanish style, with red-tiled roofs.
pseudo-technical adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈtɛknᵻkl/
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the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > technical
technological1627
technical1635
pseudo-technical1907
1907 Times 21 Aug. 8/3 If Mr. Bennett repeated this or any other of his pseudo-technical arguments before a technical audience he would be laughed out of court.
2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Apr. b7/2 The contestants are urged not to be ‘pitchy’ (the program's favorite pseudo-technical word for off-pitch..).
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† pseudochronism n. Obsolete rare a false dating; an error in date.
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1684 T. Smith in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 440 Mahomet..in his Alcoran..is guilty of vile and absurd pseudo-chronismes.
† pseudochronologist n. Obsolete rare a false chronologist; a person who attributes a spurious date to some occurrence.
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1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 63 Some will needs be such Pseudo-Chronologists, that they make those three Pastors to have flourished..more than 400 years later.
2. Forming chiefly scientific terms denoting: (a) a close or deceptive resemblance to the thing denoted by the second element, without similarity of nature to it, or sometimes an abnormal form or kind of the thing; (b) something which is supposed or purported to be the thing denoted by the second element, but really is not.
† pseudaconitia n. Chemistry Obsolete rare = pseudaconitine n.
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1874 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics 148 Flückiger asserts that there are four alkaloids contained in the genus Aconitum, namely, Aconitia, Pseudaconitia, Napellina, and Lyctonia.
pseudaconitine n.
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/ˌsudəˈkɑnəd(ə)n/
[after German Pseudaconitin (1871 or earlier)] a highly poisonous alkaloid related to aconitine and occurring in several aconites, esp. bikh, Aconitum ferox.Formula: C36H51NO12.
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1872 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 25 306 Further experiments are given in a subsequent paper..entitled ‘On the Active Ingredients of Aconitum Lycoctonum, on Aconitum Napellus, and Morson's Aconitine (Pseudaconitine)’.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 151/2 The roots of Aconitum ferox supply the famous Indian (Nepal) poison called bikh, bish or nabee. It contains considerable quantities of the alkaloid pseudaconitine.
1994 Jrnl. Nat. Products 57 963 During the course of our pharmacological studies of diterpenoid alkaloids and their derivatives..we have prepared a number of C-8 long-chain fatty acid esters of aconitine.., pseudaconitine, and falconerine.
pseudaesthesia n.
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/ˌs(j)uːdiːsˈθiːʒə/
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/ˌsudəsˈθiʒə/
[after post-classical Latin pseudaesthesia ( W. G. Ploucquet Delineatio systematis nosologici (1791) I. 77] Medicine (now rare) an illusory or subjective sensation of touch; esp. phantom limb.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered sensation > [noun]
formication1707
horripilation1776–84
pseudaesthesia1822
paraesthesia1848
hyperaesthesia1849
paraesthesis1857
phantom limb1871
hemianaesthesia1878
allochiria1881
polyaesthesia1888
allaesthesia1890
thermo-anaesthesia1890
acroparaesthesia1892
allachaesthesia1894
thermaesthesia1899
trichaesthesia1902
hypoaesthesia1906
thermo-aesthesia1909
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 282 This [sc. Parapsis Illusoria, Illusory Sense of Touch] is the pseudæsthesia of Ploucquet; and is frequently found among persons that have suffered amputation.
1855 J. R. Reynolds Diagnosis Dis. Brain viii Pseudaesthesiae are common.
1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 374/2 Pseudaesthesia... Applied especially to the cases in which irritation of the nerve at the point of amputation of a limb..produces the sensation normal to the end-organ of the limb which has been removed.
† pseud-amoeboid adj. Zoology Obsolete rare superficially resembling an amoeba.
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1880–1 W. Saville-Kent Man. Infusoria I. iii. 57 [These] can revert at will to a pseud-amœboid and repent state.
† pseudaphia n. [ < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek ἁϕή sense of touch (see oxyaphia n. at oxy- comb. form1 1) + -ia suffix1] Medicine Obsolete rare = pseudaesthesia n.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1030/2 Pseudaphia, the same as Pseudæsthesia.
pseudaposematic adj.
Brit. /s(j)uːdˌapə(ʊ)sᵻˈmatɪk/
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Zoology designating colours or markings exhibited by a harmless animal that protect it by mimicking the warning coloration of noxious or unpalatable animals, as characteristic of Batesian mimicry; (also) exhibiting such coloration.
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1890 E. B. Poulton Colours of Animals xvii. 337 Pseudaposematic colours..are special..instances of Procryptic colours..and deceptively resemble Aposematic colours.
1954 Sci. News 34 85 An unprotected insect mimics the coloration of a well protected species, thus developing false warning colours or pseudoaposematic coloration.
1988 Amer. Naturalist 131 s23 By encountering and eating the pseudaposematic Batesian mimics, the predator's previously learned avoidance is disrupted.
† pseudarachnidan adj. and n. Zoology Obsolete rare (a) adj. of or relating to a former group of tracheate arachnids which contained the pseudoscorpions, solifugids, and harvestmen; (b) n. an arachnid of this group.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [adjective] > of or relating to Pseudoarachnida
pseudarachnidan1835
opilionid1900
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > member of
pseudarachnidan1835
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xix. 302 Pseudarachnidan Condylopes. This Class, which is formed from the Tracheary Arachnidans of Latreille, differs from the preceding principally in the organs of Respiration and Circulation.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xix. 303 The most remarkable genus of the second Order of Pseudarachnidans is one described in the Linnean Transactions in which the posterior legs exhibit a raptorious character.
pseudarthrosis n.
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(also pseudoarthrosis) [compare French pseudarthrose (1824)] Medicine a false joint, esp. one formed when the two parts of a fractured bone fail to unite; the formation of such a joint.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > fractures > false joint
pseudarthrosis1839
1839 Lancet 30 Nov. 349/1 When a pseudo-arthrosis is formed, the capsule..presents, as it were, two distinct pouches.
1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 290 Extremities of bones in stumps after amputation diminish in pseudarthrosis.
1962 Lancet 22 Dec. 1318/2 Repair of non-union of the proximal third of the scaphoid in 4 cases of pseudoarthrosis..resulted in function no better than that in cases of similar pseudoarthroses for which no operation was performed.
2006 Jrnl. Pediatric Orthopaedics B 15 131 Femoral neck fractures in children are rare and known to have a high complication rate (e.g. femoral head necrosis..and pseudarthrosis).
pseudataxic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəˈtaksɪk/
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(also pseudoataxic) Medicine rare resembling (that of) ataxia.
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1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 388 There were motor disorders..at first pseudataxic.
2001 Epileptic Disorders 3 157 Frequent inhibitory seizures appeared in the lower limbs causing ‘pseudoataxic gait’.
† pseudelephant n. Palaeontology Obsolete an animal resembling an elephant.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > extinct types > mastodon
pseudelephant1769
mastodont1809
mastodon1811
mammoth1815
mastodonton1815
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > elephant > animal resembling
pseudelephant1769
1769 Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 38 A pseud-elephant, or animal incognitum.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudelephant, a mastodon. Coues.
† pseudelminth n. [ < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek ἑλμινθ-, ἕλμινς worm (see helminth n.)] Medicine Obsolete rare an invertebrate that resembles an endoparasitic worm.
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1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) 322/2 Ectozoa, a term which, like Helminthia erratica, Pseudohelminthes, and Pseudoparasites, is applied, also, to worms or larves of insects that have been introduced into the intestinal canal by accident.]
1866 T. S. Cobbold Tapeworms Introd. 9 Sometimes these pseudelminths are really so worm-like that a mere naked eye examination is insufficient to determine their nature.
† pseudelytron n. Entomology Obsolete (in male insects of the order Strepsiptera) the vestigial forewing, which is reduced to a minute club-shaped structure that functions like the halteres in dipterans.
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvii. 370 Pseud~elytra twisted, attached to the anterior leg.
1840 J. O. Westwood Introd. Mod. Classif. Insects II. 294 The pseudelytra [Mr. Newman] considers as analogous to the tippets of the Lepidoptera.
† pseudencephalus n. [ < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek ἐγκέϕαλος brain (see encephalos n.), after French pseudencephalus ( I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Hist. générale et particulière des anomalies de l'organisation chez l'homme et les animaux (1836) II. 330)] Pathology Obsolete rare a fetus or neonate with a severe form of congenital neural tube defect, having a mass of blood vessels and membranes in place of the brain.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1844 R. Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 4) 595/1 Pseudencephalus, a monster whose cranium is open in its whole extent from before to behind, its base supporting a vascular tumour—G. St. Hilaire.
pseudepisematic adj.
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Zoology designating or exhibiting coloration that mimics that of another species in order to deceive or attract individuals of that species.
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1890 E. B. Poulton Colours of Animals xvii. 337 Pseudepisematic colours..are special instances of Anticryptic colours.., and may depend for success upon the deceptive resemblance to Episematic colours.
1903 Proc. Zool. Soc. Jan.–Apr. 48 It is commonly assumed that the purpose of this imitation is purely alluring or pseudepisematic.
1926 A. S. Pearse Animal Ecol. 299 Pseudosematic colors—false warning and signaling colors: 1. Pseudaposematic colors—protective mimicry. 2. Pseudepisematic—aggressive mimicry and alluring coloration.
pseudergate n.
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[after French pseudergate (P. P. Grassé & C. Noirot 1947, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 224 219), itself after faux-ouvrier (Grassé & Noirot 1947, in Compt. Rend. 223 930); compare earlier macrergate n., micrergate n.] Entomology (now rare) (among certain termites) a blind wingless nymph performing some of the functions of a worker.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Isoptera > member(s) of (termites) > blind or wingless member of colony
pseudergate1957
1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 9) iii. 380 Pseudergates occur in Zootermopsis and..the so-called workers of Mastotermes are probably also of this form.
1979 R. M. Alexander Invertebrates xix. 436 Pseudergates also remove the eggs as the queen lays them.
1990 Ethol., Ecol. & Evol. 2 165 A pseudergate, when alone, hardly ever tried to dig a shelter and its tunneling, if begun, was soon stopped.
† pseudhaltere n. Entomology Obsolete rare = pseudelytron n.
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1840 J. O. Westwood Introd. Mod. Classif. Insects II. 292 These organs have been termed prébalanciers, præhalteres, pseudhalteres, pseudelytra, or anterior wings.
pseudoalkaloid n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈalkəlɔɪd/
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Chemistry a substance resembling an alkaloid.
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1887 A. M. Brown Treat. Animal Alkaloids i. 5 They might be some pseudo-alkaloid.., such as kreatine or kreatinine, amides rather than alkalies.
1973 Brittonia 25 389 The pseudoalkaloid 5-hydroxypipecolic acid..has been reported from one species of Salix.
1993 Phytochemistry 33 1521 The needles of Taxus baccata gave three pseudoalkaloid taxanes, whose structures were established by spectroscopical data.
pseudo-angle n.
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Mathematics a quantity in a non-Euclidean space or a space of more than three dimensions analogous to an angle in two- or three-dimensional Euclidean space.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudo-angle, an angle in non-Euclidean geometry.
1945 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 51 162 (title) The pseudo-angle in space of 2n dimensions.
1999 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 351 2968 A pseudoangle p is said to be trivial if the corresponding u-path is trivial.
pseudo-apoplectic adj.
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Medicine (now disused) designating an attack resembling a stroke, in which there is loss of consciousness and stertorous breathing.
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1853 W. Stokes Dis. Heart & Aorta v. 335 Cerebral symptoms..are commonly present in this disease. These consist in the occurrence of repeated pseudo-apoplectic attacks.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 666 In pseudo-apoplectic attacks the application of cold to the head, blistering [etc.]..are the best remedial measures.
1902 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) IV. 589/2 Præcordial distress, the so-called pseudo-apoplectic attacks, rapid and weak pulse, etc. are symptoms of dilatation.
pseudoarticulation n.
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Zoology rare a structure in an arthropod that has the appearance of an articulation but does not actually form one.
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1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. II ii. 1204 Possibly the last transverse pseudo-articulation is incorrectly so considered.
2001 Evolution 55 93 Evolutionarily derived muscles and pseudoarticulations in the male's genital surstyli facilitated one type of movement.
pseudoautosomal adj.
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Genetics designating genes or regions of the male and female sex chromosomes that are homologous and hence behave like autosomes during meiosis.
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1982 P. Burgoyne in Human Genetics 61 85 Genes distal to the proposed crossover (‘pseudoautosomal genes’) will appear to be autosomally inherited because they will be transmitted to both male and female offspring.
1999 Science 29 Oct. 964/1 The pseudoautosomal regions at the termini of the X and Y chromosomes still recombine during male meiosis, ensuring X–Y nucleotide sequence identity there.
pseudo-bacillus n.
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Medicine (now disused) a non-pathogenic bacillus that resembles a pathogen; spec. the pseudodiphtheritic bacillus, Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum.
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1891 Lancet 28 Mar. 734/2 Whereas the pseudo-bacillus fails to multiply on milk at comparatively low temperatures, the diphtheria bacillus does so mulitply.
1907 Lancet 15 June 1678/2 Cultures were then made from the [tramcar] tickets, which showed the presence of numerous germs such as streptococci, staphylococci, pneumococci, and the pseudo-bacillus of Loeffler.
pseudobacterium n.
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Biology rare a structure resembling or mistaken for a bacterium; (also) a non-pathogenic bacterium resembling a pathogen.
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1884 Science 13 June 739 Pseudobacteria were produced by the heating of blood.
1903 M. L. Dhingra Elem. Biol. ix. 61 The organisms which simulate pathogenic forms are called pseudo-bacteria.
pseudobasidium n.
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Mycology rare (in certain fungi) a spore-bearing structure resembling a basidium or resulting from modification of a basidium.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudobasidia, false basidia: bodies with the form and appearance of basidia and produced with them.
1928 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 15 132 The absence of karyogamy from the formation of the pseudobasidia shows that they are in reality only simple conidiophores.
2000 Taxon 49 790 Basidia could be converted into sclerotised pseudobasidia that functioned in part like basidiospores.
pseudo-bedding n.
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Geology = pseudostratification n. 1; cf. earlier pseudostratum n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > pseudo
pseudo-bedding1850
pseudostratification1851
1850 D. T. Ansted Elem. Course Geol. Index 579/1 Pseudo-bedding.
1893 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 49 395 Cracks, small at first, have little by little grown into deep joints, and so the pseudo-bedding has been gradually produced.
1939 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 47 72 A type of pseudobedding is developed by concentration or combining of laminae representing the approach slopes of the ripple deposits.
1991 R. Goldring Fossils in Field iii. 42 Pseudo-bedding..is produced by pressure-dissolution, stylolite-controlled layering, in generally homogeneous limestones.
† pseudoblepsia n. Medicine Obsolete rare = pseudoblepsis n.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1833 R. Dunglison New Dict. Med. Sci. II. 222/1 Pseudoblepsia, a generic name, used by Cullen for perversions of vision.
1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. Pseudoblepsia, false vision; hallucination of sight.
pseudoblepsis n.
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[ < pseudo- comb. form + -blepsis (in monoblepsis n.; compare Hellenistic Greek βλέψις sight), after post-classical Latin pseudoblepsis ( W. Cullen Synopsis nosol. methodicæ (ed. 3, 1780) II. 308)] Medicine rare †(a) the seeing of something that is not present, visual hallucination (obsolete); (b) a form of myopia (humorous).
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1794 J. Townsend Physicians' Vade Mecum 71 Pseudoblepsis, Imaginary Vision of Objects.
1799 R. Hooper Med. Dict. Pseudoblepsis.
1944 New Yorker 14 Oct. 21/1 I found that the tender raillery in her eyes was actually pseudoblepsis, a form of myopia.
pseudobrookite n.
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[after German Pseudobrookit (A. Koch 1878, in Mineral. u. petrogr. Mittheilungen 1 350)] Mineralogy a rare black to reddish-brown mineral which resembles brookite and occurs in volcanic rocks as small tabular or acicular crystals.Pseudobrookite is an oxide of titanium and ferric iron, Fe2TiO5. Crystal system: orthorhombic.
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1878 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 115 398 Pseudobrookite. Occurs in minute tabular crystals.
1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xvii. 255/1 The original titanomagnetite has been copnverted mainly to pseudobrookite (Fe2TiO5).
1996 European Jrnl. Mineral. 8 1027 The chemical composition of the glass forming inclusions in..pseudobrookite..indicates that the (Na + K)/Al ratio of the residual melts increased substantially during the cooling and crystallization of the magmas.
pseudobulb n.
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Botany (in many tropical and epiphytic orchids) a swollen segment of stem comprising one or more internodes.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids > parts of
cullions1611
thyrsus1704
labellum1810
retinaculum1821
rostellum1821
caudicle1830
pseudobulb1832
massula1856
antenna1862
clinandrium1864
bucket1871
slipper1902
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 58 The Pseudobulb is an enlarged aerial stem, resembling a tuber, from which it scarcely differs.
1890 W. Watson Orchids ii. 18 Usually only one pseudo-bulb is developed at the apex or growing point of each rhizome yearly.
1959 T. B. Morris Death among Orchids x. 77 Fat pseudo-bulbs and leaves had been torn and bruised by the fall.
pseudobulbar adj.
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[after German pseudobulbär (in Pseudobulbärparalyse pseudobulbar paralysis: F. Jolly 1884, in Arch. f. Psychiatrie u. Nervenkrankheiten 15 833)] Medicine designating or relating to a syndrome resembling bulbar palsy, with paralysis of the muscles of the face, tongue, and pharynx, but caused by supranuclear (upper motor neuron) lesions.
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1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 401/1 Pseudobulbar paralysis, a disease with symptoms like those of bulbar paralysis, but with cerebral instead of bulbar lesions.
1895 Lancet 16 Feb. 426/2 (heading) Pseudo-bulbar paralysis.
1969 M. Alpers in C. W. M. Whitby et al. Virus Dis. & Nerv. Syst. 89 Terminally, the motor system is generally depressed, except for pseudobulbar signs.
2001 T. E. Feinberg Altered Egos 176 The patient with pseudobulbar palsy may experience pathological laughing or crying.
pseudobulbil n.
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Botany (in certain ferns) an aposporous gametophyte.
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1886 Jrnl. Linn. Soc.: Bot. 21 357 A new form of proliferation altogether, viz. proliferous prothalli arising from pseudo-bulbils produced by a different transmutation of the reproductive force.
1980 Hortscience 15 296 Embryos, pseudobulbils and embryogenic callus were obtained by in vitro culture of undeveloped ovules excised from ripe fruits of the navel orange group.
1990 Bot. Bull. Taipei 31 211 Continuous proliferation of pseudobulbil, presumed intermediary structures in citrus nucellar embryogenesis in vitro, was achieved by supplementing nutrient media with cytokinins.
pseudobulbous adj.
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Botany of the nature of or having a pseudobulb; apparently but not truly bulbous.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [adjective] > of orchids
spread eagle1804
pseudobulbous1840
neottious1850
orchid-like1876
euglossine1966
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 477/2 Some of the species of Dendrobium are remarkable for having the pseudo-bulbous form at one end of their stem, and the common state at the other.
1901 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: N–Q 1166/2 The pseudo~bulbous species..should be hosed over thoroughly.
2001 Bot. Jrnl. Linnean Soc. 136 153 Catasetinae consist of five genera of pseudobulbous Orchidaceae of the Neotropics.
† pseudocarcinoid n. and adj. [ < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek καρκίνος crab (see carcinoma n.) + -oid suffix; compare later carcinoid adj.] Zoology Obsolete rare (a) n. any of certain kinds of crustaceans that resemble crabs; (b) adj. designating a crustacean of this kind.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1878 T. H. Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 781 Such forms as these, which simulate the Brachyura, and yet differ profoundly from them, may be termed ‘pseudo-carcinoids’.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudocarcinoid, a., being a macrurous and simulating a brachyurous crustacean; looking like a crab without being one; n., a pseudocarcinoid crustacean, as a member of the genus Thenus or Ibacus. Huxley.
† pseudoceratophorous adj. [ < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek κερατ-, κέρας horn (see kerato- comb. form) + -phorous comb. form] Zoology Obsolete rare resembling a horn, as the hornlike projections of a giraffe's skull.
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1860 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 28 105 The existence [in the giraffe] of pseudoceratophorous epiphyses permanently invested by a hairy integument.
† pseudocercaria n. Zoology Obsolete (in certain gregarine parasites) a stage in the life cycle that resembles the cercaria of a trematode; an individual at this stage.
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1872 E. R. Lankester in Q. Jrnl. Micrsosc. Sci. 12 350 In figs. 10, 11 the ‘pseudocercaria’, as it may be termed, is represented... These pseudocercariæ were found in some numbers associated with small Gregarinæ.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 861 [Gregarinida.] A ‘pseudofilaria’ stage, followed by a ‘pseudocercaria’ stage, i.e. one with a slender tail and large body like a Cercaria.
pseudocholinesterase n.
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Biochemistry an esterase which is less specific than acetylcholinesterase and present in blood and some other tissues, catalysing the hydrolysis of various choline esters and certain other compounds.
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1943 B. Mendel & H. Rudney in Biochem. Jrnl. 37 59/1 There exist in the animal body two esterases capable of hydrolysing acetylcholine: a true cholinesterase acting exclusively on choline esters, and a non-specific enzyme, which hydrolyses not only esters of choline but a variety of non-choline esters as well... Experiments with both enzymes..have revealed a decisive difference between the two esterases, calling for a sharp distinction of the true cholinesterase from the non-specific enzyme, for which we venture to suggest the name pseudo-cholinesterase.
1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) vii. 861 Other inherited enzyme defects which are revealed by drugs include pseudocholinesterase deficiency.
2005 Therapeutic Drug Monitoring 27 168 Thioridazine may prolong the serum half-life of cocaine by inhibiting the pseudocholinesterase-mediated catabolism of cocaine.
pseudochromaesthesia n.
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(also pseudochromesthesia) Psychology (now rare) a form of synaesthesia in which a mental impression of colour is produced by the stimulation of another sense, esp. hearing; = chromaesthesia n.
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1892 W. O. Krohn in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 5 20 (heading) Pseudo-chromesthesia, or the association of colors with words, letters and sounds.
1912 School Rev. 20 368 A curious example of this is seen in the phenomenon known to psychologists as pseudochromaesthesia or ‘color-hearing’.
2004 J. E. Roeckelein Imagery in Psychol. ii. 229 These data include experiences of photisms, pseudochromesthesia,..and other special features.
† pseudochromia n. [ < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek χρῶμα colour (see chrome n.) + -ia suffix1 (compare -chromy comb. form)] Medicine Obsolete rare total inability to distinguish colours; = achromatopsia n.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 766/1 Pseudochromia, achromatopsia.
pseudochrysalis n.
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Entomology rare the pseudopupa of an oil or blister beetle.
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1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 200 The larva, soon after entering the nest of its host, changes its skin and assumes a second larva form... This stage in its development..he calls ‘pseudo-chrysalis’.
1940 C. P. Clausen Entomophagous Insects 565 The coarctate larva has been variously termed the pseudolarva, pseudonymph, pseudopupa, and pseudochrysalis.
pseudochrysolite n.
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[compare Hellenistic Greek ψευδόχρυσος a false chrysolite (Diodorus Siculus 2. 52, where a 17th-cent. editor has conjectured ψευδοχρυσόλιθος)] Geology rare a glassy substance resembling obsidian, now identified with moldavite.
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1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks xi. 187 Pseudo-chrysolite..occurs as rounded pebbles in sand.
1951 M. L. Wolf Dict. Arts 102/1 Bottle stone,..it is a peculiar form of glass, green and very pure, found as rolled pebbles near Moldau, Old Bohemia. Since it is definitely not a rock, it may be prehistoric slag or glass. Known also as moldavite, pseudochrysolite, and (natively) bouteillenstein.
pseudocirrhosis n.
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[after German Pseudolebercirrhose (F. Pick 1896, in Zeitschr. f. klin. Med. 29 395)] Medicine (originally) severe hepatic congestion secondary to constrictive pericarditis (now rare; cf. Pick n.7 1); (later) any liver disease resembling cirrhosis.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > inflammation of specific tissues
cirrhosis1839
cellulitis1849
parenchymatitis1857
serositis1892
fasciitis1893
Pick's disease1900
polyserositis1900
pseudocirrhosis1900
fibrositis1904
mucositis1958
1900 R. J. Dunglison Dunglison's Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 22) App. 1314/2 P[ick's] disease, pseudocirrhosis of the liver, sometimes accompanying adhesive pericarditis.
1940 E. Rosenthal Dis. Digestive Syst. iii. 278 Such a perihepatitis may be the result of liver disease or may accompany ‘pericarditic pseudocirrhosis’ (Pick's disease).
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxix. 790 The liver..sometimes..is irregularly intersected, and even divided into lobe-like masses, by bands of fibrous tissue passing inwards from the capsule, a condition which has been called pseudo-cirrhosis.
1994 Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenol. 163 1385 Criteria for the diagnosis of pseudocirrhosis included a lobular hepatic contour, segmental volume loss, and enlargement of the caudate lobe.
Pseudo-Clementine n.
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= Clementine n.1 1(b).
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1858 A. C. Kendrick tr. H. Olshausen Biblical Comm. on New Test. V. 498 The mode in which the pseudo-Clementines opposed Marcion.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxii. 54 Those who..vented their hatred of Paul in the Pseudo-Clementines.
1998 Novum Testamentum 40 350 The association of all the terms of the decree with the problem of idolatry and pagan worship is confirmed in later Christian literature, especially the Pseudo-Clementines.
† pseudocommissural adj. Zoology Obsolete rare forming a connection resembling a commissure (cf. pseudocommissure n.).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Pseudocommissural fibres.
† pseudocommissure n. Zoology Obsolete rare a bundle of connective tissue connecting the olfactory lobes in certain anurans.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1882 B. G. Wilder & S. H. Gage Anat. Technol. 420 In the frog..[the lobes] are united by connective tissue constituting a pseudo-commissura.]
1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudocommissure, a sort of commissure, formed of connective tissue, between the olfactory lobes of some batrachians, as the frog.
pseudocompatibility n.
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Botany the fertilization of flowers by pollen with which they would normally be incompatible; incomplete incompatibility, in which gametes which would normally be incompatible form a viable embryo.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > pollination > by incompatible pollen
pseudocompatibility1943
1943 Nature 16 Jan. 70/1 N[icotiana] Forgetiana and N. alama show pseudo-compatibility only in exceptional circumstances, that is, the actions of the various allelomorphs of the switch gene are always distinctive... Pseudo-compatibility marks the breakdown of the distinction between the types produced by the S [= sterility] allelomorphs.
1977 Jrnl. Hort. Sci. 52 475 Pseudocompatibility was maximized by pollinating old flowers with large quantities of pollen.
pseudoconcha n.
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Zoology rare a lateral projection in the nasal cavity of certain birds and reptiles, other than the true concha or conchae (turbinate bones).
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1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 547 This pseudoconcha [Ger. Pseudoconcha] separates the vestibule of the nose from the internal nasal cavity.
1984 Folia Morphologica 32 225 A trace of the pseudoconcha observed in Agama also appears at the site of union of the parietotectal and paranasal cartilages.
pseudocone n. and adj.
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[after German pseudocon, adjective (H. Grenacher 1877, in Klin. Monatsblätter f. Augenheilkunde 15 Suppl. May 18)] Entomology (a) n. a soft gelatinous or fluid-filled ommatidium in the eyes of certain insects, esp. dipteran flies, as contrasted with the crystalline ommatidium in the eyes of other insects; (b) adj. designating or relating to such an eye.
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1885 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 25 229 The term ‘pseudocone’ was given by Grenacher to the structure corresponding to the crystalline cones of the majority of insects.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses iii. 48 These are the acone eye, in which the cone is absent, and the pseudocone eye, in which the cone is filled with a transparent fluid.
1975 Cell & Tissue Res. 159 379 Two corneal pigment cells laterally encircle the pseudocone.
2002 C. U. M. Smith in G. A. Cory & R. Gardner Evolutionary Neuroethol. Paul Maclean iii. 42 These eyes..are no mere approximations to the real thing. They consist of a full complement of different cells and structures:..pigment cells, cornea, cone and pseudocone cells, retinula cells.., and so on.
pseudoconglomerate n.
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Geology a rock resembling a conglomerate but formed by a process other than sedimentary deposition (see quot. 1972).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > composite rock > [noun] > aggregate
aggregate1784
pseudoconglomerate1849
1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. iii. 243 A jetting of scoria, which has formed a pseudo-conglomerate.
1957 F. J. Pettijohn Sedimentary Rocks (ed. 2) viii. 367 (caption) Brecciated siltstone... Brecciation was contemporaneous with sedimentation; a pseudoconglomerate.
1972 Gloss. Geol. (Amer. Geol. Inst.) 574/1 Pseudoconglomerate, a rock that resembles, or may easily be mistaken for, a true or normal (sedimentary) conglomerate; e.g...a sandstone packed with many rounded concretionary bodies, or an aggregate of rounded boulders produced in place by spheroidal weathering and surrounded by clayey material.
1999 Jrnl. Paleontol. 73 746/2 Disturbance..soon after deposition may have been even more frequent.., with carbonates containing abundant intrastratal pseudoconglomerate formed by displacement of early diagenetic nodules within a fluidized matrix.
† pseudocorneous adj. Zoology Obsolete rare composed of a substance resembling horn, as the base of the deciduous horn sheath of a pronghorn antelope.
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1872 T. N. Gill Arrangem. Families Mammals in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (1874) 72 Horns deciduous, peculiar to the rutting season, (in both sexes,) developed as pseudocorneous sheaths with agglutinated hairs on osseous cores.
pseudocortex n.
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Botany a protective layer of tightly interwoven branches or hyphae covering the thallus of a seaweed or lichen.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudocortex, an agglomeration of secondary branches in the Florideæ, originating at the nodes, and closely adpressed to the main or axial branch of a frond, forming a false cortex.
1904 Bot. Gaz. 4 272 The fruticose cylindrical type [of lichen thallus] with protective and strengthening pseudocortex of mostly parallel and longitudinal hyphae.
2002 Bryologist 105 64/1 Pseudocortex of gelatinized..branched and anastomosed hyphae.
pseudocosta n.
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chiefly Zoology and Palaeontology a structure that resembles a costa or rib; esp. (in a coral) a small projection from a septum into the interseptal space.
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1888 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 44 213 The flattened or rounded interspaces between the septa of these corals, which stand out slightly in relief, are generally termed pseudo-costæ.
1943 Jrnl. Paleontol. 17 197/1 Surface of epitheca with 8 to 12 indistinct radiating ridges or pseudocostae.
1997 Ecology 78 2179/2 Interconnecting, hexagonally shaped ridges (pseudocostae) often surround the corallites of forereef branches.
pseudocostate adj.
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[compare scientific Latin pseudocostatum ( J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1832) ii. ii. 93)] †(a) Botany (of a leaf) having veins that are confluent so as to form a marginal or intramarginal vein (obsolete rare); (b) chiefly Zoology and Palaeontology having a structure or structures that resemble costae or ribs; esp. (of a coral) having pseudocostae.
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 933/2 Pseudocostate, having the curved and external veins, both or either, in a reticulated leaf, confluent into a line parallel with the margin, as in many Myrtaceæ.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudocostate... 2. Having pseudocostæ, as a coral.
1932 Jrnl. Paleontol. 6 254/1 The distinguishing features are the small calices and the echinulate, pseudocostate surface of the coenenchyme.
1971 Micropaleontology 17 387/1 Some species [of acritarch] may have regularly spaced granules, and these may be aligned in definite rows to present a pseudocostate appearance.
pseudocotunnite n.
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[ < pseudo- comb. form + cotunnite n., after Italian pseudocotunnia (A. Scacchi 1873, in Atti della Reale Accad. delle Sci., Fis. e Matem. di Napoli 6 ix. 38); compare German Pseudocotunnit (G. vom Rath 1877)] Mineralogy rare an imperfectly characterized mineral found as aggregates of dull whitish or yellowish acicular or platy crystals in fumaroles on Vesuvius.Pseudocotunnite is a chloride of potassium and lead. Crystal system: probably orthorhombic.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > halides > [noun] > other chlorides or oxychlorides
horn-mercury1776
horn-lead1783
manganesane1815
percylite1850
mendipite1851
kremersite1854
horn-quicksilver1860
molysite1868
hydrophilite1875
pseudocotunnite1876
lawrencite1877
heliophyllite1890
koenenite1902
rinneite1909
kempite1924
1876 Harpers Mag. Jan. 303/2 Pseudocotunnite, found in acicular yellow crystals, which are without lustre.
1933 Mineral. Abstr. 5 269 New records of minerals from Vesuvius are thenardite, pseudocotunnite,..and hieratite.
† pseudocotyledon n. Botany Obsolete rare (a) a bryophyte or pteridophyte; (b) the protonema of a bryophyte or the prothallus of a pteridophyte (formerly considered analogous to the cotyledons of spermatophytes).
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1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom p. xxxvi Agardh's primary divisions are nine; namely, 1. Acotyledons. 2. Pseudocotyledons. [etc.].
1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudocotyledon, one of the germinating threads of the spores of cryptogams.
† pseudocotyledonae n. [ < pseudo- comb. form + cotyledon n. + scientific Latin -ae, suffix forming plural nouns (see -ae suffix), after Pseudocotyledoneae ( C. A. Agardh Aphorismi botanici (1817) 72)] Botany Obsolete rare cryptogamic plants of a former group that comprised the bryophytes and pteridophytes.
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1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 308 What green have we in Mosses or Ferns, or other Pseudocotyledonæ, more intense than in Ulva?
† pseudocrisis n. Medicine Obsolete rare a temporary abatement of fever in a patient suffering from pneumonia or other febrile illness.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudocrisis, a sudden remission of temperature, resembling a crisis, but followed immediately by a return to the previous fever.
pseudocroup n.
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Medicine a disorder simulating croup; esp. acute subglottic laryngitis.
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1844 R. Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 4) 595/2 Pseudocroup, asthma thymicum.
1890 A. B. McKee tr. J. Cohnheim Lect. Gen. Pathol. (ed. 2) III. 994 Very much more important than these attacks of so-called pseudo-croup is true croupous or diphtheritic laryngitis.
1965 Acta Microbiol. Acad. Sci. Hung. 12 188 (title) Virological investigation of hospitalized cases of pseudocroup and acute laryngotracheobronchitis.
1997 Internat. Jrnl. Pediatr. Otorhinolaryngol. 20 147 Acute subglottic laryngitis (pseudocroup) is caused by viral infection and usually occurs in children from 6 months to 4 years of age.
pseudocubic adj.
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[after French pseudocubique (E. Mallard 1876, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 82 1063)] Crystallography apparently cubic in morphology or crystal structure but not actually so; spec. designating a composite crystal in which the crystal structure simulates the symmetry of a single crystal of the cubic system but actually has lower symmetry.
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1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. vi. §166 Complicated structures in which twelve orthorhombic crystals are united into a single pseudo-cubic combination.
1929 Amer. Mineralogist 14 50 (heading) Pseudo-cubic quartz crystals from Artesia, New Mexico.
1968 I. Kostov Mineral. 117 Shandite has a distorted spinel structure, the nickel atoms being arranged along the pseudocubic diagonals.
1990 C. Pellant Rocks, Minerals & Fossils 94 Chabazite... Rhombohedral crystals with pseudocubic appearance.
pseudocubical adj.
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Crystallography rare = pseudocubic adj.
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1881 Nature 24 Feb. 398/2 The isometry of radiate pseudocubical groups.
1962 Amer. Mineralogist 47 778 The crystals are rough and pitted and of pseudocubical habit.
pseudocumene n.
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Chemistry an isomer of cumene that is a colourless flammable liquid occurring in coal tar, and is irritating to the skin, eyes, and respiratory tract; cf. mesitylene n.Chemical name: 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene. Formula: C6H3(CH3)3.
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1881 H. Watts Dict. Chem. VIII. 1282 Pseudocumene.
1934 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 38 315 Higher aromatic hydrocarbons such as ethyl-benzene, pseudo-cumene and mesitylene have been synthesised and used, on an experimental scale, as fuel for aviation engines.
2000 Independent on Sunday 2 July (Review Suppl.) 15/2 Just beyond the mountains..is the..magnesium plant, which until a ruling in 1997 was emitting more than 8.5 tons of hydrochloric acid and pseudocumene into the air each day.
† pseudocyclosis n. Zoology Obsolete rare an apparent circulation of food particles within an amoeba.
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1863 G. C. Wallich in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 11 435 They [sc. sarcoblasts] take an equal share in the pseudocyclosis which involves all foreign matter and, under certain circumstances, the nucleus, contractile vesicle, and vacuoles.
pseudocyphella n.
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Botany (in certain lichens) a pore in the cortex of the thallus that resembles a cyphella but lacks its lining of specialized cells; usually in plural.
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the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > part(s) of
pelt1759
pelta1760
scutellum1760
scyphus1777
shield1796
podetium1814
apothecium1830
cistella1832
rhizine1832
scypha1832
soredium1836
amphigastria1842
gonidium1845
macrogonidium1853
hypothallus1855
crustaceous lichens1856
pycnide1856
perianth1857
isidium1866
thamnium1866
endospore1875
perigynium1882
pseudocyphella1882
thecium1882
parathecium1921
soralium1921
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 554/1 They [sc. cyphellæ] are generally naked, but are often also pulverulent or sorediiferous, in which latter case they are called pseudo-cyphellæ.
1964 Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants 64/1 The inner layers of the plant..show as conspicuous spots through small holes (pseudocyphellae) scattered over the lower surface.
1993 Bryologist 96 345 The species has..conspicuous white pseudocyphellae on the lower surface, and scattered minute white pseudocyphellae on the upper surface.
pseudodeltidium n.
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Palaeontology (in certain fossil brachiopods) a single flat or convex plate which occurs instead of a deltidium and does not always completely cover the space between the beak and the hinge.
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1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 180 A triangular prominence called a pseudo-deltidium.
1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) vii. 177/1 Suborder 2. Clitambonitidina (Ord.): Wide-hinged impunctate pseudopunctate shells, having pronounced pseudodeltidium.
pseudodementia n.
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Medicine a condition resembling dementia but from which the patient recovers (or may recover); (in later use) spec. that seen in depressed elderly patients.
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1887 Lancet 12 Nov. 961/1 Mr. Mickle states..that in the five cases which set in with symptoms of pseudo-dementia, ‘the ordinary motor and sensory signs of general paralysis are either absent at first or are masked’.
1959 Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica Scandinavica 34 Suppl. No. 132. 16 Each episode was accompanied by pseudo-dementia of which the hysterical colouring was patently obvious.
1979 A. Lazare Outpatient Psychiatry (1989) 286 The concept of depressive pseudodementia has been used effectively to draw attention to the fact that some patients who appear to be demented may have a diagnosable depressive illness.
1997 D. S. Khalsa & C. Stauth Brain Longevity x. 183 Women are particularly prone to memory loss from the pseudodementia of depression.
pseudodike n.
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Geology a rock formation resembling a dyke.
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1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. xvii. 655 Another small pseudo-dike, six inches wide.
1945 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 53 175/1 When working in regions of crystalline rocks, special care must often be exercised in distinguishing between true dikes and pseudo-dikes (or xenoliths).
1989 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 101 1608 New lava flowed into some of the major fractures in the area, presumably forming pseudodikes.
pseudo-distance n.
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Geometry a quantity in a non-Euclidean space or a space of more than three dimensions, analogous to distance in two- or three-dimensional Euclidean space.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudodistance, the distance in non-Euclidean geometry.
1935 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 139 The properties of pseudo-distance given in Theorem 20.
1992 R. H. Wasserman Tensors & Manifolds xv. 213 A distance function, d, on a set defines a Hausdorff topology. If we drop the property d(p,q > 0 if p ≠ q, then d, called a pseudodistance function, still defines a topology on M.
pseudodont adj.
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Zoology having or designating a structure that functions as a tooth but is not a true tooth (as in the duck-billed platypus, which has a series of horny plates in each jaw).
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudodont, having false teeth, as a monotreme.
1980 Copeia No. 4. 621 The dentary, maxillary and palatines all showed marked crenulations along the masticatory surfaces, which produced a pseudodont pattern comparable to that seen in the living turtles Chrysemys nelsoni and Dermatemys mawii.
1993 Jrnl. Paleontol. 67 268/2 The maxilla..has the remnants of three teeth firmly set in the jaw. A small projection of bone anterior to these may be the remnants of a pseudodont tooth.
pseudo-entity n.
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(also pseudentity) Philosophy something falsely called or regarded as an entity.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > being or entity > pesudo-entity or pseudo-existence
pseudo-existence1849
pseudo-entity1896
1896 W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. iii. 149 A pseudo-entity..like ‘mere matter’ or a mere Epicurean god in the interstellar spaces.
1912 Mind 21 214 ‘Matter’ is..a pseudentity.
1984 L. P. Hinchman Hegel's Critique of Enlightenment 11 One might be tempted to ask whether the ‘I’ exists at all, whether it is not a pseudo-entity that language has foisted on us and our philosophers.
† pseudo-erythrin n. [after German Pseuderythrin (F. Heeren 1830, in Jahrb. der Chem. u. Physik 39 341)] Chemistry Obsolete ethyl orsellinate, a crystalline compound prepared from the orchil lichen, Roccella tinctoria.Formula: C6H2(CH3)(OH)2·COOCH2CH3.
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1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 403 This substance is the result of the action of boiling alcohol on erythrin... Heeren has distinguished it by the name of pseudo-erythrin.
1862 Proc. Royal Soc. 12 263 The hypothesis that the various compounds produced by boiling lecanoric, erythric, alpha- and beta-orsellic acids with alcohol were all one and the same ether—the pseudo-erythrin of Heeren.
pseudo-existence n.
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false or unreal existence; (Philosophy) a state of affairs in which an object which does not exist is presented as existing.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > being or entity > pesudo-entity or pseudo-existence
pseudo-existence1849
pseudo-entity1896
1849 Littell's Living Age 18 Aug. 318/1 Many of our readers will doubtless remember the Aëronautical Society, which was puffed into a kind of pseudo-existence a few years ago.
1904 B. Russell in Mind 13 207 What is called the existence of an object in presentation is not really existence at all: it may be called pseudo~existence.
1934 Mind 43 375 Confronted with Meinong's obscure and tentative utterances about immanence and pseudo-existence, Mr. Russell reasonably protested.
2003 Guardian (Nexis) 26 May (Media section) 2 As reality shows have become more dramatic, dramas have become ever more realistic. No wonder the ‘real’ world has struggled to compete with the pseudo-existence on the screen.
pseudo-foliaceous adj.
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Botany (now rare) (of a plant) having parts that resemble leaves but are not leaves.
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1884 Bulletin Illinois State Lab. 2 6 Pseudo-foliaceous forms, in which the thallus is lobed, the lobes assuming leaf-like forms.
1894 Bot. Gaz. 19 356 Such pseudofoliaceous forms as Schiffneria, Fossombronia and Haplomitrium.
1916 Bryologist 19 67 In 1898 two stations were found for a pseudo-foliaceous hepatic which at the time was referred to Fossombronia crispula Austin.
pseudofracture n.
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Medicine (originally) a line of radiolucency in the cortex of a bone, seen esp. in various metabolic bone diseases; (later also) any lesion or artefactual finding resembling a fracture in an X-ray or radionuclide scan.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > defect in bone
pseudofracture1930
1930 Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenol. 24 31/1 Fromme considers the point of involvement of those spontaneous pseudofractures to be about 1 inch below the epiphyseal line.
1976 Gordan & Vaughan Clin. Managem. Osteoporoses vii. 80 The pathognomonic x-ray finding of osteomalacia is the presence of bilateral symmetrical pseudofractures.
1995 Ann. Nuclear Med. 9 29 Initial bone scintigrams showed..focal areas of intense uptake due to pseudofractures reminiscent of bone metastases.
pseudo-fruit n.
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Botany = pseudocarp n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > of specific structure or formation
pseudocarpa1836
ceratium1880
pseudo-fruit1887
1887 H. M. Ward tr. J. von Sachs Lect. Physiol. Plants xxviii. 464 The Fig..is a so-called pseudo-fruit [Ger. Scheinfrucht].
1960 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 47 263 Fruit (indeed a pseudofruit since it is developed from the receptacle), so far as American species are concerned, a berry (a drupe in certain Old World forms).
2005 Genetics & Molecular Biol. 28 328 Cashew..is a medicinal plant native to Brazil and also yields a nutritious fruit juice. Its large pulpy pseudo-fruit, referred to as the cashew apple, contains high concentrations of vitamin C.
pseudogalena n.
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[after scientific Latin pseudogalena ( J. G. Wallerius Mineralogia, eller Mineral-Riket (1747) 248), so called on account of its superficial resemblance to galena] Mineralogy (now rare) = sphalerite n.
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a1775 J. H. Hampe Exper. Syst. Metall. (1777) 168 Other natural and artificial bodies, which contain zinc; namely, the pseudo-galena, the calamine of the furnaces, tutty, &c.
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 242 As it has much the aspect of Galena, and yet contains little or no lead, it has been called Pseudo Galena.
1979 Nature 22 Feb. 596/3 Joe Schwartz..has confused galena with false-galena or pseudogalena (sphalerite).
pseudogaster n.
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Zoology (now rare) (in certain sponges) a cavity formed by the colony growing around a space and enclosing it; cf. pseudostome n. 2.
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1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 791 [Porifera.] Such fusion frequently leads to the enclosure of spaces really external to the sponge-body, which form a false gastric cavity (pseudogaster) opening by a false osculum (pseudosculum s. pseudostome) and false pores (pseudopores).
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 719/1 A centrally placed pseudogaster, which is simply a space enclosed by upgrowth of the colony around it, may form the main exhalant canal and open to the exterior through a well-defined vent or pseudosculum.
pseudogastrula n.
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Zoology (now rare) a blastula which has undergone invagination prior to gastrulation; spec. (in certain calcareous sponges) one in which the archaeocytes of one hemisphere have become completely enclosed by flagellated cells of the other (before half of these lose their flagella to produce the amphiblastula).
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1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 483 The pseudogastrula normally occurs only before the larva leaves the follicle of the parent body.
1909 J. W. Jenkinson Exper. Embryol. iv. 237 A posterior quarter may gastrulate in the way described for the posterior half, but exogastrulae and pseudogastrulae occur.
1958 Q. Rev. Biol. 33 26/2 The alterations of shape in the blastula (pseudogastrula, stomoblastula,..) are intelligible as a result of the small space available for embryonic expansion in the body of the parent sponge.
pseudogene n.
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Genetics a DNA sequence that is very similar to that of a functional gene but is not transcribed or translated, e.g. as a result of mutations that have occurred in it.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromosome > part or section
satellite1921
trabant1926
secondary constriction1932
puff1936
microsatellite1962
pseudogene1977
1977 C. Jacq et al. in Cell 12 109/1 The 5S DNA of Xenopus laevis, coding for oocyte-type 5S RNA, consists of many copies of a tandemly repeated unit of about 700 base pairs. Each unit contains a ‘pseudogene’ in addition to the gene. The pseudogene has been partly sequenced and appears to be an almost perfect repeat of 101 residues of the gene.
1989 A. J. Jeffreys in J. R. Durant Human Origins iii. 30 Some pseudogenes arise by gene duplication followed by silencing of one of the duplicated genes.
2003 Nature 1 May p. ix The human genome contains 20,000 pseudogenes that do not produce a functional full-length protein.
† pseudogeneral adj. Medicine Obsolete rare designating a paralytic condition resembling general paralysis.
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1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 335 The author objects to the distinction between true general paralysis characterized by chronic periencephalitis, and pseudo-general paralysis due to simple circulatory derangements.
pseudogeusia n.
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[ < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek γεῦσις sense of taste (see oxygeusia n. at oxy- comb. form1 1) + -ia suffix1] Medicine rare a disorder of the sense of taste in which tastes are perceived that are not produced by external stimuli.
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1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 707/1 Pseudogeusia, false taste.
1987 Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie 66 355 The qualitative dysgeusias (parageusia, pseudogeusia, phantogeusia, agnogeusia).
† pseudogeustia n. [ < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek γευστός to be tasted (see ageustia n.) + -ia suffix1] Medicine Obsolete rare = pseudogeusia n.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 707/1 Pseudogeustia, pseudogeusia.
pseudogley n.
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[after German Pseudogley ( W. L. Kubiëna Bestimmungsbuch u. Systematik der Böden Europas (1953) 295)] Soil Science a gley resulting from temporary or seasonal waterlogging due to poor drainage, rather than from the permanent existence of a high water table.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > waterlogged soil
moss1596
boga1687
liver1803
pakihi1851
gley1927
pseudogley1953
1953 W. L. Kubiëna Soils of Europe 242 The modification of ‘gley-like soil’ to pseudogley has been made here to make it conform to the rules of nomenclature, whereby the type designation should be expressed by a noun.
1973 J. Mulqueen in Schlichting & Schwertmann Pseudogley & Gley 713 The pseudogley soils at Ballinamore are stratified into essentially two layers.
1999 Ecology 80 1988/2 Grass savanna..on the hydromorphic pseudogley soils.
pseudoglioma n.
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Ophthalmology any intraocular condition that mimics retinoblastoma.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > disorders of retina
retinitis1821
retinitis pigmentosa1859
retinal detachment1860
detached retina1863
choroido-retinitis1869
neuroretinitis1878
chorioretinitis1880
pseudoglioma1884
macular degeneration1918
retinoblastoma1924
pseudofovea1925
retinopathy1930
RP1975
Rb1976
1884 H. R. Swanzy Handbk. Dis. Eye xvii. 307 Purulent inflammation of the vitreous humour (to which unfortunately the name pseudo-glioma is sometimes applied).
1946 C. Berens & J. Zuckerman Diagnostic Exam. Eye ix. 258 In children retinoblastoma (glioma) should be differentiated from an abscess of the vitreous (pseudoglioma).
2000 Jrnl. AAPOS 4 125 Signs such as an ocular pseudoglioma, progressive deafness, and mental disturbance are considered classic features [of Norrie disease].
pseudoglobulin n.
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[after German Pseudoglobulin (F. Hofmeister 1899: see Zeitschr. f. physiol. Chem. (1900) 31 140, Beiträge zur chem. Physiol. u. Pathol. (1901) 361)] Biochemistry a fraction of serum globulin that is soluble in pure water and in saline solutions of low ionic strength.
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1903 Lancet 28 Mar. 855/1 They [sc. antitoxins, lysins, and agglutinins] appeared in either the eu-globulins or the pseudo-globulin.
1964 W. G. Smith Allergy & Tissue Metabolism vi. 69 Bradykinin is present in normal blood as an inactive precursor, bradykininogen, which is a component of the pseudoglobulin fraction of plasma.
1987 Immunol. Lett. 15 27 Human monoclonal IgM pentamers with different biophysical properties (euglobulin, pseudoglobulin or cryoglobulin) were reduced and reassociated.
pseudogout n.
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Medicine synovitis produced by the deposition of crystals of calcium pyrophosphate (rather than crystals of urate), occurring most often in the knee or wrist.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > gout > pseudogout
pseudogout1962
1962 D. J. McCarty et al. in Ann. Internal Med. 56 712/1 It is suggested that these patients represent a discrete type of arthritis, labeled ‘pseudogout’ because in some respects it resembles classical gouty arthritis.
1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 Mar. 2/2 Pseudo-gout is an attack that resembles an attack of gout, in that it strikes at a joint (usually the knee) with dramatic suddenness and with just as severe pain.
1996 Amer. Family Physician 54 2239 The most common causes of acute monoarthritis are trauma, crystals (gout and pseudogout) and infection.
† pseudogyrate adj. Botany Obsolete rare (of the sporangium of a fern) having the annulus confined to the vertex.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 934/1 Pseudo-gyrate, falsely-ringed; when an elastic ring is confined to the vertex of the spore-cases of ferns.
pseudohaemal adj.
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(also †pseud-haemal, U.S. pseudohemal) Zoology (now rare) designating or relating to the circulating fluid of some invertebrates, analogous to the blood of vertebrates but usually consisting of plasma without blood cells.
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1858 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 3) ii. iii. 439 In the Hirudinidae..a system of vessels homologous with the pseud-haemal system exists.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals i. 57 In the Arthropoda no segmental organs or pseud-haemal vessels are known.
1929 Science 15 Nov. 479/2 The pseudohemal system has a green fluid.
1930 Jrnl. Paleontol. 4 10 The oral surface also bears a notch or groove which contained the radial nerve trunk and the pseudohaemal canal.
pseudo-heart n.
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Zoology †(a) (in a brachiopod) any of several tubular organs connecting the body cavity and the pallial cavity (obsolete); (b) (in an oligochaete worm) any of several lateral contractile blood vessels which assist in the circulation of blood.
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1856 A. Hancock in Proc. Royal Soc. 8 464 There are usually three apertures opening into the pallial chamber; of these one is the mouth,—the other two are situated at the apices of the organs which have been described as ‘hearts’. In Rhynchonella..there are four such ‘pseudo-hearts’.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals viii. 465 It is probable that these ‘pseudo-hearts’ subserve the function both of renal organs and of genital ducts.
1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 34 ‘Pseudo-hearts’, five pairs of contractile loops lying in segments 8 to 11 which drive blood from the dorsal vessel down to the sub-intestinal vessel.
1999 Invertebr. Biol. 118 185/1 Thin filaments of smooth muscles, such as in the pseudo-heart of the annelid Eisenia foetida.
pseudohexagonal adj.
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Crystallography apparently hexagonal in morphology or crystal structure but not actually so; spec. designating a crystal in which the crystal structure simulates the symmetry of the hexagonal system but actually has lower symmetry.
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1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 300 This pseudohexagonal core is surrounded by an external layer of the really hexagonal modification.
1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. vii. §308 Fig. 261 represents a crystal of witherite, and illustrates the pseudo-hexagonal aspect of many crystals in this [orthorhombic] system.
1969 Amer. Mineralogist 54 849 Thin pseudohexagonal flakes or fragments.
1990 C. Pellant Rocks, Minerals & Fossils 89/1 Chlorite... System: Monoclinic. Habit: flaky, pseudohexagonal crystals, massive.
pseudo-idea n.
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(also pseud-idea) a meaningless or false idea.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [noun] > false
idolum1640
idolism1671
idol1678
fiction1828
pseudo-idea1863
pseudo-concept1866
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [noun] > instance of
error1340
misbeliefa1387
misopinion1489
delusion1552
fallacy1590
delirium1599
pseudodox1601
ignotion1647
by-opinion1670
night-philosophy1677
sphalm1715
pseudo-idea1863
1863 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. 36 We can entertain them [sc. hypotheses] only as we entertain such pseud-ideas as a square fluid and a moral substance.
1879 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 130 Professor Bain would no doubt say that nonentity was a pseud-idea not derived from experience and therefore meaningless.
1911 W. James Some Probl. Philos. xii. 197 The pseudo-idea of a connection which we have, Hume then goes on to show, is nothing but the misinterpretation of a mental custom.
1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 17 Sept. 26 Away from these old-fashioned works of art that impose their own intellectual discipline, we have nothing but a hotchpotch of pseudo-ideas and concepts.
pseudo-instruction n.
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Computing an instruction, similar to a computer instruction in form, that is used to control a compiler or assembler rather than being directly executed as an instruction by hardware.
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > instruction > pseudo
pseudo-order1951
pseudo-operation1956
pseudo-instruction1957
1957 D. D. McCracken Digital Computer Programming xv. 182 The very first order of business on jumping into the interpretive routine is to increase index 1 by 1 so that it contains the location of the first pseudo instruction.
1967 P. A. Stark Digital Computer Programming xii. 198 In addition to all the arithmetic and input-output instructions..the symbolic language has a number of pseudo-instructions to the symbolic assembler.
2002 Proc. 35th Ann. ACM/IEEE Internat. Symp. Microarchitecture 414/1 We constructed an application that executed self-modifying code via the pseudo-instructions at different execution rates.
pseudoionone n.
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[after German Pseudoionon (F. Tiemann & P. Krüger 1893, in Berichte der Deutsch. Chem. Ges. 26 2692)] Chemistry = ionone n. 2.
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1894 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 66 i. 82 Geranaldehyde undergoes condensation with acetone, yielding pseudoionone.
1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) xli. 628 The condensation of citral..with acetone to form the unsaturated ketone pseudo-ionone.
1942 H. R. Rosenberg Chem. & Physiol. Vitamins 46 γ-Carotene has..the same number of carbon atoms as all other provitamins, only in the form of an aliphatic chain (pseudo-ionone structure), as in lycopene.
2002 P. Winterhalter & R. L. Rouseff Carotenoid-derived Aroma Compounds i. 8 Typical for tomato..flavor is the presence of acyclic carotenoid cleavage products that are derived from lycopene, such as..pseudoionone.
pseudoisochromatic adj.
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Ophthalmology composed of different colours that appear the same to a colour-blind person; designating a test for colour blindness that makes use of plates composed of such colours.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > [adjective] > kinds of eye-test
Snellen1864
Jaeger1869
pseudoisochromatic1879
1879 T. J. Dills tr. J. Stilling in Arch. Ophthalmol. 8 182 If we intermix the different shades of both inter~changeable colors in smaller or larger squares, in such manner that the squares of the one color form letters and figures, and those of the other the groundwork, so that the different intensities alternate in ground and letter..the question as to judgment of colors is rendered unnecessary, the inquiry being merely about letters, numbers, figures. This is the principle of the pseudo-isochromatic plates.
1949 H. C. Weston Sight, Light & Efficiency vii. 241 For distinguishing between the varieties of colour-sense deficiency,..what are called pseudo-isochromatic plates are available.
1993 Ophthalmic & Physiol. Optics 13 35 The accuracy of three new pseudoisochromatic tests for detecting red-green colour deficiency was assessed.
pseudo-ixiolite n.
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Mineralogy a mineral similar to ixiolite but yielding columbite rather than wodginite on heating, now regarded as a form of columbite with a disordered crystal structure.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > oxides of titanium, tantalum, nickel, or rare earths > others
crichtonite1813
polymignite1826
warwickite1838
samarskite1849
adelpholite1859
guarinite1859
hielmite1861
tapiolite1868
sipylite1877
koppite1880
stibiotantalite1893
lewisite1895
mossite1898
neotantalite1903
priorite1907
arizonite1909
betafite1912
ampangabeite1913
ishikawaite1922
tanteuxenite1928
thoreaulite1934
simpsonite1937
priderite1951
irinite1955
obruchevite1955
lueshite1961
pseudo-ixiolite1963
wodginite1963
pseudorutile1966
armalcolite1970
1963 E. H. Nickel et al. in Amer. Mineralogist 48 976 The ixiolite-like minerals that convert to columbite-tantalite on heating cannot be considered as true ixiolites. For want of a better name, it is suggested that they be referred to as disordered columbite-tantalite, or as ‘pseudo-ixiolite’.
1971 Canad. Mineralogist 10 758 In all other pegmatites, pseudo-ixiolite forms either tabular grains..or radiating bunches of fibrous laths.
2001 Brazilian Jrnl. Physics 31 621/1 Disordered columbite was formerly called pseudo-ixiolite. Today the inappropriateness of this denomination is well established, but immediately after its suggestion a vivid debate was established..to distinguish true-ixiolite from pseudo-ixiolite.
pseudolateral adj. and n.
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Botany (a) adj. apparently lateral; spec. designating a branch derived from an apical bud or cell that occupies a lateral position on a sympodial axis; (b) n. a pseudolateral branch, esp. in certain red algae.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudolateral, having a tendency to become lateral when it is normally terminal, as the fruit of certain Hepaticæ.
1892 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 19 311 It agrees with both in its stiff, erect, stem-like, pointed leaves, pseudo-lateral inflorescence, and glomerate flowers.
1975 Austral. Jrnl. Bot. 23 560 Here the new lateral arising on the subapical cell will be diametrically opposite the position of the next pseudolateral in the spiral.
1986 Brittonia 38 150 Some groups..have species that develop pseudolateral inflorescence, i.e., the terminal nature of the inflorescence is obscured by the early development of an axillary bud which continues growth of the branch.
1994 Eur. Jrnl. Phycol. 29 169/2 Dasya cuts off pericentral cells in a circular, sequential pattern and produces procarps on short, polysiphonous, spiralled pseudolaterals.
† pseudo-leucocythaemia n. Medicine Obsolete malignant lymphoma; cf. pseudoleukaemia n.
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1872 J. R. Cormack tr. A. Trousseau Lect. Clin. Med. V. 208 But Wunderlich goes further: considering that there is no difference, except in the state of the blood, between leucocythæmia and adenia (which he calls pseudo-leucocythæmia).
1872 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 584 Pseudo-leucocythæmia, splenic (or lymphatico-splenic) anæmia or cachexia, Hodgkin's disease, Trousseau's Adénie).
pseudoleucocyte n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈl(j)uːkəsʌɪt/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈlukəˌsaɪt/
Medicine a cell or clump of cells that resembles a leucocyte when blood is viewed through a microscope.
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1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Sept. 654 The pseudo-leucocytes that are present in the blood in trypanosomiasis.
1984 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Pathol. 81 317 This study documents the presence of significant analytic error due to pseudoleukocyte formation as the result of platelet clumps induced by EDTA anticoagulant.
† pseudo-lichen n. Botany Obsolete a fungus that resembles a lichen but lacks the algal symbiont that is characteristic of a true lichen.
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1841 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 11 20 A few pseudo-lichens, more particularly Verrucaria maura and V. epigea.
1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi iii. vii. 416 Pseudo-lichens. The above account necessarily excludes from the class of Lichens those forms which are ranked with them in our books because they have been collected by Lichenologists, but which do not possess the one mark of the true Lichen, namely, the presence of Algae in their thallus.
pseudolobar adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈləʊbə/
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[after French pseudo-lobaire (1879 or earlier)] Medicine (now rare) involving adjacent or confluent lobules of the lung; lobular.
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1879 Lancet 29 Nov. 814/2 Clinically, in the former case, one has to deal with a grave pseudo-lobar broncho-pneumonia.
1915 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 22 753 In some instances the process may suggest a pseudolobar or confluent lobular distribution. In these cases the lung has a mottled, marble-like appearance.
1950 Lancet 18 Nov. 550/1 Several such areas may be present in one or both lungs; and Collins and Kornblum apply to this type of consolidation the term ‘pseudolobar pneumonia’.
pseudomalachite n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈmaləkʌɪt/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmæləˌkaɪt/
[after German Pseudomalachit ( J. F. L. Hausmann Handb. der Mineral. (1813) 1035)] Mineralogy a mineral resembling malachite that typically occurs as botryoidal masses and fibrous aggregates of dark green translucent crystals and is a secondary mineral found in oxidized zones of copper ore deposits.Pseudomalachite is a phosphate and hydroxide of copper, Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4. Crystal system: monoclinic.
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1835 C. U. Shepard Treat. Mineral. II. ii. 122 Pseudo-Malachite. Hemi-prismatic, copper-barite.
1969 Science 22 Aug. 802/2 Pseudomalachite, covellite, anhydrite, rosasite, and parisite are secondary minerals of hydrothermal origin.
1994 Mineral. Mag. 58 449 Infrared spectroscopy is a rapid method of distinguishing between pseudomalachite and its polymorphs reichenbachite and ludjibaite.
pseudomemory n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈmɛm(ə)ri/
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the apparent recollection of something which has not actually occurred; an instance of this, a false memory.
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1882 W. H. Smith tr. T. A. Ribot Dis. Memory 186 Pseudo-memory [Fr. fausse mémoire]..consists in a belief that a new state has been previously experienced, so that when produced for the first time it seems to be a repetition.
1992 New Yorker 5 Oct. 116/3 Both the expectations of the hypnotist and the prior beliefs of the subject may determine the content of confabulations or pseudomemories during hypnosis.
pseudometallic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)mᵻˈtalɪk/
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Mineralogy and Physical Chemistry resembling a metal in appearance or (later) in physical properties; resembling that of a metal.
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1728 Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 407 A pseudometallick Substance, by the Miners term'd Glist.
1871 L. Colange Zell's Pop. Encycl. I. 374/1 Bronzite, a variety of Diallage, with a pseudo-metallic lustre, frequently approaching to that of bronze.
1950 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 202 453 The simple metal-selenium contact was practically eliminated..and attention drawn particularly to films of a non-metallic or pseudo-metallic type.
1993 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 115 11882/2 Heteropoly 12-tungstates have very good (pseudometallic) electronic conductivity.
† pseudo-mica n. Obsolete a mineral resembling mica.Apparently an isolated use.
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1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. ix. 515 The pseudo-mica was nothing but altered chrysolite.
pseudo-monocotyledon n.
Brit. /s(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˌmɒnə(ʊ)kɒtlˈiːdn/
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[perhaps after French pseudomonocotylédoné, noun (1808 in the passage translated in quot. 1819; < post-classical Latin pseudo-monocotyledonea , use as noun of neuter plural of pseudo-monocotyledoneus : see pseudomonocotyledonous adj.)] Botany (now rare) a dicotyledonous plant in which one of the cotyledons has been aborted at an early stage.
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1819 J. Lindley tr. L.-C. Richard Observ. Struct. Fruits & Seeds 74 Gaertner has distinguished the last by the sesquipedalian, but correct name of pseudomonocotyledones [Fr. pseudomonocotylédonés].]
1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 214/1 Pseudomonocotyledon, in Dicotyledons the early abortion of one of the cotyledons, as in Capsella.
1915 New Phytologist 14 141 The morphology and anatomy of certain pseudo-monocotyledons.
1945 W. O. Lawson & L. G. G. Warne Lowson's Textbk. Bot. (ed. 9) xvii. 425 On this account they have been named Pseudo-Monocotyledons.
pseudomonocotyledonous adj.
Brit. /s(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˌmɒnə(ʊ)kɒtlˈiːdn̩əs/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌmɑnəˌkɑdlˈidn̩əs/
[after post-classical Latin pseudo-monocotyledoneus ( J. Gaertner De fructibus et seminibus plantarum (1791) II. xxx)] Botany (of a dicotyledonous plant) apparently monocotyledonous, as by the fusion of the two cotyledons, or by the abortion of one of them.
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1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 188 A cohesion of the cotyledons takes place in those embryos, which Gærtner called pseudomonocotyledonous, and Richard macrocephalous.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. ii. 26 A Pseudo-monocotyledonous embryo occasionally occurs,..of which one cotyledon is wanting through abortion.
1981 Bot. Gaz. 142 34/2 The unusual orientation of the seed apex as a result of the pseudomonocotyledonous condition.
† pseudomorphia n. Chemistry Obsolete rare = pseudomorphine n.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 106 Pseudo-morphia, a principle said to occur occasionally, but little understood.
pseudomorphine n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈmɔːfiːn/
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[after German Pseudomorphin (J. Pelletier 1835, in Ann. der Pharm. 16 49)] Chemistry a crystalline alkaloid produced by the oxidation of morphine.Systematic name: 2,2'-bimorphine; C34H36N2O6.
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1836 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 30 179 M. Pelletier announces the discovery of two new substances in opium, which he terms Paramorphine and Pseudomorphine.
1976 Biochem. Pharmacol. 25 1075 (title) Enzymatic conversion of morphine to pseudomorphine.
1999 Internat. Jrnl. Pharmaceutics 187 17 Morphine degrades in aqueous solutions with the formation of mainly pseudomorphine, to a lesser extent morphine-N-oxide and probably apomorphine.
pseudomucin n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈmjuːsɪn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmjus(ə)n/
[after German Pseudomucin (O. Hammarsten 1882, in Zeitschr. f. physiol. Chem. 6 209)] Biochemistry a mucoid substance; spec. that found in certain ovarian tumours.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > cyst > fluid in
pseudomucin1883
1883 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 44 875 Paralbumin is only a mixture of a mucoid substance, pseudomucin, with varying proportions of albumin.
1955 G. O. Davies Gaiger & Davies' Vet. Pathol. & Bacteriol. (ed. 4) i. 15 Pseudo-mucin from ovarian cysts is soluble in water and is not precipitated by acetic acid.
1968 J. W. Huffman Gynecol. Childhood & Adolescence xiv. 279/2 Pseudomucinous Cystadenomas. These tumors owe their name to their contents, a gel-like fluid, pseudomucin, secreted by the cells of the epithelium lining the locules within the cysts.
pseudomucinous adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈmjuːsᵻnəs/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmjusənəs/
Pathology designating ovarian tumours that contain a mucoid substance (now more often designated mucinous).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > reproductive organ disorders > [adjective] > of female > disorders of womb
retroflexed1724
retroverted1771
anteverted1829
anteflexed1839
metritic1857
parametritic1869
pseudomucinous1901
Krukenberg1911
1901 J. L. Rothrock in C. A. L. Reed Text-bk. Gynecol. xl. 603 Pseudomucinous (Proliferating) Cysts.—To this group belong the greater proportion of ovarian cysts.
1951 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 61 755 (title) The behavior of pseudomucinous cystadenoma.
2005 Neuroendocrinology 81 311 A specimen of solid papillary pseudomucinous tumor.
pseudomultilocular adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)mʌltɪˈlɒkjᵿlə/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌməltiˈlɑkjələr/
[after French pseudo-multiloculaire (1818 in the passage translated in quot. 1819)] Biology rare apparently multilocular but not actually so.
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1819 J. Lindley tr. L.-C. Richard Observ. Struct. Fruits & Seeds 5 To recognize the true loculation of fruit..above all of those that are Pseudomultilocular or cellular.
1989 Micropaleontology 35 376/1 ‘Pseudomultilocular’ forms are composed of conglomerations of relatively equal-sized single chambered tests.
† pseudo-multiseptate adj. Botany Obsolete rare apparently multiseptate but not actually so.
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1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 393 Sporidia 8, fusoideo-filiform, straight or curved, pseudo-multiseptate.
pseudomycorrhiza n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)mʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈrʌɪzə/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌmaɪkoʊˈraɪzə/
[after Swedish pseudomykorrhiza ( E. Melin Studier över de norrländska myrmarkernas vegetation (1917) ii. v. 358 )] Biology a fungal infection of tree roots that resembles, but lacks the symbiotic characteristics of, a true mycorrhiza.
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pseudomycorrhiza1922
syngen1957
grex1962
1922 Jrnl. Ecol. 10 254 In drained bogs this pseudomycorrhiza is harmful to the seedlings and trees, whilst the ectotrophic mycorrhiza is a necessary condition for their normal development.
1934 Forestry 8 102 These pseudomycorrhizas show aberrant structure in many respects.
1996 Mycorrhiza 6 451 3 [Fungal isolates] formed pseudomycorrhizae with a mantle but without the Hartig net.
pseudomycorrhizal adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)mʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈrʌɪzl/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌmaɪkoʊˈraɪz(ə)l/
Biology of or relating to pseudomycorrhizas.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in interrelationship > [adjective] > specific organisms
pseudomycorrhizal1926
1926 New Phytologist 25 357 A large number of casual soil species can cause root infection of the pseudomycorrhizal type.
2003 Folia Geobotanica 38 191 Pseudomycorrhizal colonization did not affect the growth parameters of the host rhododendrons.
pseudoneurotic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)njᵿˈrɒtɪk/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊn(j)ʊˈrɑdɪk/
Psychiatry of, relating to, or designating types of mental illness, esp. schizophrenia, in which superficial symptoms of neurosis are found in conjunction with underlying symptoms of psychosis.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > psychoneurosis
psychoneurotic1887
pseudoneurotic1941
1941 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 6 881 Insofar as individuals are motivated to avoid dissocial acts because of the penalty anticipated, the pseudoneurotic anxiety aroused in disease situations has a positive social function.
1966 I. B. Weiner Psychodiagnosis in Schizophrenia xvi. 398 Borderline and pseudoneurotic are two of many nosological terms that have been proposed to identify fairly stable personality states in which schizophrenic features are implied but not overtly manifest.
1984 Neuropsychobiol. 12 101 The distinction between pseudoneurotic and pseudopsychopathic schizophrenia is fairly reliable.
pseudo-object n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈɒbdʒᵻkt/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈɑbdʒək(t)/
Grammar a noun or pronoun that appears to be, but actually is not, the object of a sentence.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > object > pseudo-object
pseudo-object1935
1935 Mind 44 505 The danger of using the material mode is that it misleads us into thinking that pseudo-object sentences are concerned with extra-linguistic objects such as numbers, things, properties, experiences, space, time, and so on.
1965 Language 41 399 Both reject the same pseudo-objects: From..The candidate spoke two hours:..(They reported) the speaking of two hours by the candidate... Two hours were spoken by the candidate.
1966 Eng. Stud. 47 54 It (as a kind of pseudo-object) appears with transitive and intransitive verbs, and finally with original nouns and adjectives (to lord it, to queen it, to rough it) indicating the verbal function of these nominal parts of speech.
1991 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 111 230/2 What is not clear is why there are two main sub-classes, true and pseudo-objects.
pseudo-organic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊɔːˈɡanɪk/
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(also pseudorganic) †(a) Chemistry designating the elements sulphur and phosphorus, as frequently occurring in organic compounds (obsolete); (b) inorganic but closely resembling or simulating an organism or organic structure.
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1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §25 In plants and animals, four of the [elements] are universally present, and are called organic; two are found very generally present, and are called pseud-organic.
1898 Nature 2 June 118/1 Some of the ‘pseudorganic’ structures described in rocks might really be the casts or replacements of dried streaks.
1947 L. Stein Appreciation iv. 80 What is already organic is most easily apprehended as beautiful: men, animals, birds, flowers, plants; then things that are pseudo-organic, like crystals and geometric forms.
1993 Sci. Amer. Oct. 10 (caption) William Latham breeds myriad generations of computer-generated mutations to arrive at his pseudo-organic ‘White Form’. His creations can display characteristic behavior and respond to their surroundings.
pseudoparalysis n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)pəˈralᵻsɪs/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊpəˈræləsəs/
[in later use after French pseudo-paralysie (J. M. Parrot 1872, in Arch. de physiol. 4 319)] Medicine apparent paralysis, in which movement is restricted by non-neurological causes, esp. pain; an instance of this.
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1837 Lancet 22 July 629/1 The most prominent symptoms [in the cat] being a state of great indolence and drowsiness, attended by a kind of pseudo-paralysis.
1907 Mind 16 149 The dementias of the adult—general paralysis and pseudo-paralysis.
1950 Arch. Ophthalmol. 44 872 For several years I employed the term pseudoparalysis of the lateral rectus in relation to those children for whom a preoperative diagnosis of lateral rectus paralysis had been made and in whom it was found..that the paresis or paralysis no longer existed.
1990 E. J. Parkins Equilibration, Mind, & Brain xii. 151 Concerning the psychological component [of Parkinson's disease], it has been suggested that the paralysis may be a pseudoparalysis that is a result of ‘motor disregard’.
† pseudo-paraplegia n. Medicine Obsolete rare pseudoparalysis of the lower extremities.
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1874 Lancet 5 Dec. 800/2 Pseudo-paraplegia of the lower extremities, with cutaneous anæsthesia.
1899 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 10 476 Pseudo-paraplegia with tremor.
pseudoparasite n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈparəsʌɪt/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈpɛrəˌsaɪt/
Biology an organism whose presence within another is interpreted as parasitic but which is only present by accident; (formerly also) †a hemiparasite, an organism apparently but not strictly parasitic, such as an epiphyte or saprophyte (obsolete).
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1851 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 8) 313/1 Ectozoa, a term which, like Helminthia erratica and Pseudohelminthes, is applied to worms or larves of insects that have been introduced into the intestinal canal by accident.]
1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 84 Pseudo-parasites are those parasites which only casually happen upon man, because they here find moisture, warmth, and organic substances in decomposition.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 245 Those Protophytes which contain chlorophyll live chiefly in water, or at least in damp localities, sometimes as pseudo-parasites.
1968 F. L. Dunn in R. B. Lee & I. De Vore Man the Hunter xxiii. 222 Because of the extraordinary state of preservation of certain pseudoparasites—mites and nematodes—we were able to conclude..that the ancient people represented by these specimens were in fact free of a whole series of intestinal helminths.
1990 Arch. Pathol. & Lab. Med. 114 981 The worms were identified as Paragordius varius. This is an uncommon pseudoparasite that is ingested from contaminated food or water.
pseudoparasitic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)parəˈsɪtɪk/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌpɛrəˈsɪdɪk/
Biology of the nature of a pseudoparasite; apparently parasitic.
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1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §1139 Pseudo-parasitic plants, or Epiphytes.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 934/1 Pseudo-parasites, including those plants which only attack dead tissues... Such plants are pseudo-parasitic.
1942 Jrnl. Parasitol. 28 264 An examination of 13 raccoons from East Texas revealed the following parasites..Synhimantus longigutturata n. sp. (probably pseudoparasitic), 1 specimen.
1992 Ecology 73 1521/2 The impact of such maverick genetic elements on a population's biology are explored..for the pseudo-parasitic behavior of B chromosomes.
pseudoparenchyma n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)pəˈrɛŋkᵻmə/
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[after German Pseudoparenchym (A. de Bary in W. Hofmeister Handbuch der physiologischen Botanik (1866) II. i. 2, also as Scheinparenchym, in the same passage)] Mycology and Botany an intimately connected mass of hyphae, hairs, or filaments that forms a continuous layer of tissue resembling parenchyma.
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1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 258 The space between the enveloping layer and the coils of the ascogonium is filled by a pseudo-parenchyma [Ger. von einem Pseudoparenchym].
1917 J. W. Harshberger Text-bk. Mycol. & Plant Pathol. 48 When the pseudoparenchyma is external, it may serve for the protection of the internally disposed hyphae.
1969 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 59 113 The root hairs..flatten themselves to make a more or less solid tissue, a pseudoparenchyma.
1999 Bryologist 102 390 Surface hyphae of excipulum sometimes anticlinally arranged appearing as 1–2 layers of thick pseudoparenchyma.
pseudoparenchymatous adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)parənˈkɪmətəs/
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[ < pseudo- comb. form + parenchymatous adj., after German pseudoparenchymatisch (1874 in the passage translated in quot. 1882)] Mycology and Botany of the nature of or consisting of pseudoparenchyma.
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1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 316 The wall of a free isolated perithecium..consists of a firm pseudoparenchymatous [Ger. pseudoparenchymatischen] tissue of a dark colour.
1939 E. A. Bessey Text-bk. Mycol. (new ed.) x. 265 When its full extent of development is nearly attained a subepidermal mass of hyphae is formed making a pseudoparenchymatous basal layer.
2004 European Jrnl. Phycol. 39 411 Sporophytes were formed of uniseriate filaments consolidated in a pseudoparenchymatous crust.
pseudoparesis n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)pəˈriːsɪs/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊpəˈrisᵻs/
Medicine †(a) any condition resembling general paralysis (obsolete); (b) an apparent or spurious paresis.
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1894 Lancet 14 Apr. 919/1 There is one marked symptom in these cases of syphilitic epiphysitis which is rarely absent, and that is pseudo-paresis.
1969 W. Healy Individual Delinquent xxii. 679 Some idea of the astonishing variety of psychoses caused by alcohol can be gained from the enumeration of Cramer... He distinguishes: (1) the gradual progressive dementia of chronic alcoholism, (2) delirium tremens,..(7) alcoholic paralysis—pseudoparesis, (8) [etc.].
2005 Jrnl. Bone & Joint Surg. 87A 1476 Our purpose was to evaluate the..results of this arthroplasty in a consecutive series of shoulders with painful pseudoparesis due to irreversible loss of rotator cuff function.
pseudoparthenogenesis n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)pɑːθᵻnə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻsɪs/
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Zoology a form of parthenogenesis in which females produce eggs that give rise to females of a different form (e.g. one lacking wings, as in aphids).
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1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. 214 Pseudo-parthenogenesis. It is the process familiarly exemplified in the Aphides. Here, from the fertilized eggs laid by perfect females, there grow up imperfect females, in the pseud-ovaria of which there are developed pseud-ova.
1957 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 43 733 The numbers in the segregating classes point to normal meiosis and fertilization and not much pseudoparthenogenesis, if any.
1997 Parasite 4 263 Exceptional pseudoparthenogenesis forms..were also found in the thin blood smears.
† pseudopediform adj. Zoology Obsolete rare having the form of a pseudopodium.
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1847 T. R. Jones in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. 5/2 Body provided with variable pseudopediform prolongations.
pseudopelade n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)pᵻˈlɑːd/
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[after French pseudo-pelade (L. Brocq. et al. 1905, in Annales de dermatol. et de syphiligraphie 6 1)] Medicine a form of scarring alopecia with a patchy distribution on the scalp.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > disorders of hair > [noun] > loss of hair
alopeciaa1398
alopecya1400
red scall1578
foxes evil1607
fox-evil1659
area1661
madarosis1684
pelade1753
defluvium1817
trichorrhœa1860
hypotrichosis1896
pseudopelade1909
androgenic alopecia1970
androgenetic alopecia1977
1909 Brit. Jrnl. Dermatol. 21 27 Dr. J. M. H. Macleod showed a case of pseudo-pelade (Brocq) or cicatricial alopecia in a man, aged 34 years, affecting chiefly the vertex of the scalp.
1996 Dermatol. Clin. 14 773 The most important primary scarring alopecias include pseudopelade, lichen planopilaris, and diffuse scarring of the vertex in African-Americans.
pseudoperidium n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)pᵻˈrɪdɪəm/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊpəˈrɪdiəm/
Mycology a false peridium, spec. that covering the aecium of a rust fungus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of > reproductive parts
capsule1693
perithecium1800
aecidium1821
hymenium1830
pseudoperidium1832
pseudoperithecium1832
disc1842
trichidium1842
spicule1843
sporophore1849
stylospore1851
pycnide1856
cyst1857
pycnidium1857
basidium1858
cystidium1858
basidiospore1859
conidium1861
pollinarium1861
gonosphere1865
hymenophorum1866
spicula1866
teleutospore1866
promycelium1867
gonosphaerium1873
hymenophore1874
paracyst1874
sterigma1874
pollinodium1875
scolecite1875
uredospore1875
metuloid1879
operculum1879
uredo1879
aecidiospore1880
pycnidiospore1880
uredo-fruit1882
chlamydospore1884
teleutosorus1884
fruitcake1885
ascocarp1887
periplasm1887
pycnospore1887
pyrenocarp1887
macrostylospore1894
autobasidium1895
oidium1895
zygophore1904
aeciospore1905
aecium1905
pycniospore1905
teliospore1905
telium1905
uredinium1905
uredosorus1905
fruit-body1912
sporodochium1913
probasidium1916
fruiting body1918
pycnium1926
holobasidium1928
protoperithecium1937
uredium1937
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. iii. 207 Pseudoperithecium; Pseudohymenium; Pseudoperidium; terms used by Fries to express such coverings of Sporidia as resemble in figure the parts named perithecium, hymenium, and peridium in other plants.
1927 H. Gwynne-Vaughan & B. F. Barnes Struct. & Devel. Fungi 268 Centrally, where the pseudoperidium arches over the aecidial contents, it is derived from the cells first cut off in each row.
1965 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 512 In some genera..all the spores of the peripheral chains and the terminal spores of the other chains lose their spore-like character before breaking through the epidermis and cohere as a firm investment (pseudoperidium).
pseudoperithecium n.
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌpɛrəˈθisiəm/
Mycology a unilocular structure resembling a perithecium, esp. in fungi of the ascomycete order Laboulbeniales.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of > reproductive parts
capsule1693
perithecium1800
aecidium1821
hymenium1830
pseudoperidium1832
pseudoperithecium1832
disc1842
trichidium1842
spicule1843
sporophore1849
stylospore1851
pycnide1856
cyst1857
pycnidium1857
basidium1858
cystidium1858
basidiospore1859
conidium1861
pollinarium1861
gonosphere1865
hymenophorum1866
spicula1866
teleutospore1866
promycelium1867
gonosphaerium1873
hymenophore1874
paracyst1874
sterigma1874
pollinodium1875
scolecite1875
uredospore1875
metuloid1879
operculum1879
uredo1879
aecidiospore1880
pycnidiospore1880
uredo-fruit1882
chlamydospore1884
teleutosorus1884
fruitcake1885
ascocarp1887
periplasm1887
pycnospore1887
pyrenocarp1887
macrostylospore1894
autobasidium1895
oidium1895
zygophore1904
aeciospore1905
aecium1905
pycniospore1905
teliospore1905
telium1905
uredinium1905
uredosorus1905
fruit-body1912
sporodochium1913
probasidium1916
fruiting body1918
pycnium1926
holobasidium1928
protoperithecium1937
uredium1937
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. iii. 207 Pseudoperithecium; Pseudohymenium; Pseudoperidium; terms used by Fries to express such coverings of Sporidia as resemble in figure the parts named perithecium, hymenium, and peridium in other plants.
1928 C. W. Dodge tr. E. A. Gäumann Compar. Morphol. Fungi xxiv. 365 At maturity, the vestigial walls of the perithecium degenerate, leaving the developing ascogonium surrounded only by the walls of the original cells of the distal region, a pseudoperithecium.
1988 Plant Disease 72 1028 On corn leaves, the fungal pseudoperithecia developed unusually long necks.
pseudophone n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˌfəʊn/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌfoʊn/
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/ˈsudəˌfoʊn/
Acoustics and Psychology an instrument for changing the direction from which a sound seems to come, used for investigating the localization of sound.
ΚΠ
1879 Engineering 5 Sept. 194/1 A new instrument..to which he [sc. Dr. S. P. Thompson] has given the name ‘pseudophone’.
1979 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 92 551 Some of his [sc. Paul T. Young's] time was spent on auditory problems, leading to his invention of the ‘pseudophone’, a device for transposing the auditory stimuli between the ears.
1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 869/2 Initial studies on the ventriloquism aftereffect used either displacing prisms or a ‘pseudophone’ to shift the relative locations of visual and auditory stimuli.
pseudopigmentation n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)pɪɡmɛnˈteɪʃn/
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/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)pɪɡm(ə)nˈteɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌpɪɡmənˈteɪʃ(ə)n/
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/ˌsudoʊˌpɪɡˌmɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)n/
[after German Pseudopigmentierung (1874 in the passage translated in quot. 1876)] Medicine rare dark discoloration of the skin or other tissue caused by a substance other than melanin.
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1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. iii. iii. 316 Pseudo-pigmentation [Ger. Pseudopigmentirungen] or pseudo-melanosis is a gray or blackish coloration, caused by the presence of sulphide of iron.
2000 Cutis 66 294 (title) Pseudopigmentation in a patient taking amiodarone.
pseudoplasm n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˌplaz(ə)m/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌplæz(ə)m/
[after German Pseudoplasma (1845 in the passage translated in quot. 1847)] Pathology †(a) a neoplasm (obsolete); (b) a lesion, esp. of inflammatory origin, resembling a neoplasm (disused).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > other tumours
polypusa1398
polypa1400
ecchymoma?1541
cat's hair1552
pneumatocele1585
thrombus1676
morum1684
physocele1706
haematocele1724
myxosarcoma1802
moro1807
lipoma1830
tuberculomaa1836
melanoma1838
pancreatoid1842
enchondroma1847
pseudoplasm1847
myeloma1848
tyroma1848
haematoma1849
adenocele1850
pachydermatocele1854
myosarcoma1857
angioma1858
myxoma1860
gliosarcoma1869
lymphadenoma1873
lymphoma1873
myoma1875
odontoma1876
teratoid tumour1876
teratoma1879
fibro-lipoma1882
embryoma1886
haemangioma1890
tubulodermoidc1900
plasmoma1901
astrocytoma1903
adamantinoma1904
hamartoma1904
plasmocytoma1907
mesothelioma1909
plasmacytoma1909
neuroblastoma1910
neurocytoma1910
paraganglioma1914
carcinoid1925
oligodendroglioma1926
mastocytoma1927
phaeochromocytoma1929
ameloblastoma1931
Schwannoma1932
myoblastoma1934
neurilemmoma1943
primary1957
neurolemmoma1964
vipoma1973
prolactinoma1975
somatostatinoma1977
1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 265 Traumatic influences,..(among which we must reckon the pseudo-plasms [Ger. Pseudoplasmen]).
1888 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 97 [Certain tumours] were accordingly termed pseudo-plasms or neo-plasms or new growths.
1918 Lancet 2 Mar. 338/1 The difficulty of diagnosing a lympho-sarcomatous neoplasm from a lymphatic pseudoplasm was admittedly great.
pseudoplasmodium n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)plazˈməʊdɪəm/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌplæzˈmoʊdiəm/
Biology a structureless aggregate of distinct unicellular slime moulds which differentiates to form a fruiting body; = grex n.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in interrelationship > [noun] > aggregate or colony
colony1808
triad1876
pseudoplasmodium1892
1892 R. Thaxter in Bot. Gaz. 17 392 The essential characters of a pseudo-plasmodium are common to both groups.
1943 L. W. Sharp Fund. Cytol. ii. 16 Among the slime molds there is a group of species in which free cells..unite in great numbers and form large pseudoplasmodia in which the original cell boundaries remain evident.
1984 J. W. Deacon Introd. Mod. Mycol. (ed. 2) i. 10 The pseudoplasmodium produces a cellulosic stalk on top of which is a head of spores.
pseudopore n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdə(ʊ)pɔː/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌpɔr/
Zoology a structure resembling a pore; spec. †(a) (in some sponges) a pore of a pseudogaster (obsolete); (b) (in some bryozoans) a spot in the calcified frontal wall in which calcification has not occurred but which does not constitute an opening to the interior, being filled with tissue.
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1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 791 Such fusion frequently leads to the enclosure of spaces really external to the sponge-body, which form a false gastric cavity (pseudogaster) opening by a false osculum (pseudosculum s. pseudostome) and false pores (pseudopores).
1909 G. M. R. Levinsen Cheilostomatous Bryozoa p. v Uncalcified spots in calcified surfaces may be called ‘pseudopores’.
1995 J. S. Ryland in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe xi. 630 The pores of ascophorines, which may be confined to the margin or extend all over the frontal surface, are merely gaps in the calcification: they are best called pseudopores.
pseudo-possession n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)pəˈzɛʃn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊpəˈzɛʃ(ə)n/
Psychology a mental state characterized by the feeling of being possessed (by spirits, another person, etc.); the delusion of possession.
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1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 65 A duplication of personality..a pseudo~possession, if you will—determined in a hysterical child by the suggestion of friends.
1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 1050/2 When a melancholic or schizophrenic patient expresses delusions of possession..this is to be regarded as mere pathoplastic colouring and the state as one of pseudo-possession only.
1998 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 25 Nov. 13 Pseudo-possession is a part of some psychiatric illnesses. The eruption of dark material from a person's unconscious may give them a feeling of being possessed.
pseudo-presentiment n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)prᵻˈsɛntᵻm(ə)nt/
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/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)prᵻˈzɛntᵻm(ə)nt/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊprəˈsɛn(t)ᵻmənt/
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/ˌsudoʊprəˈzɛn(t)ᵻmənt/
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/ˌsudoʊpriˈsɛn(t)ᵻmənt/
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/ˌsudoʊpriˈzɛn(t)ᵻmənt/
Psychology a presentiment remembered after an event; esp. one supposed to have occurred in a dream.
ΚΠ
1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 2 463 Granting that the account is substantially correct, an explanation on the theory of pseudo-presentiment is very plausible.
1889 J. Royce in Proc. Amer. Soc. Psychical Res. 1 366 In certain people,..there occur what I shall henceforth call pseudo-presentiments.
1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 644 What I shall..call pseudo-presentiments, i.e...hallucinations of memory which make it seem to one that something which now..astonishes him has been prefigured in a recent dream.
1998 R. L. Gregory Oxf. Compan. to Mind 182 He may speculate that the events were revealed to him in a dream, which would explain his failure to recall consciously his presentiment in the interim. Technically, this feeling is a pseudo-presentiment.
pseudoprime n. and adj.
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Mathematics (a) n. any integer p for which ap − a is a multiple of p for a given positive integer a (the base), or (in full absolute pseudoprime) for all positive integers, or for all positive integers where a and p are relatively prime; (b) adj. designating such a number.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > prime > pseudoprime
pseudoprime1949
the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > prime > relating to
Mersenne1892
Fermat('s) number1906
twin prime1930
pseudoprime1949
Skewes1949
1949 Amer. Math. Monthly 56 623 Following Lehmer we shall call an integer n a pseudoprime if 2n≡ 2 (mod n) and n is not a prime.
1978 Amer. Math. Monthly 85 293 561 (= 3 x 11 x 17) is an ‘absolute pseudoprime’, i.e. it divides a561 − a for every a.
1988 H. E. Rose Course in Number Theory i. 12 Extremely efficient methods exist for checking whether or not an integer is pseudoprime with respect to some fixed integer n.
1997 Sci. Amer. May 84/3 Unfortunately, every base has infinitely many pseudoprimes, so we can't just find a really good base and use only that.
pseudo-primitive adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈprɪmᵻtɪv/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈprɪmədɪv/
apparently, but not really, primitive; (Art) resembling or imitative of a primitive style of painting.
ΚΠ
1896 Ibis Jan. 11 The Ratite shoulder-girdle seems more primitive, and it is difficult to suppose that its condition is secondary and due to retrogression, or, in other words, that it is ‘pseudo-primitive’.
1990 New Yorker 5 Feb. 16/1 His paintings seem too heavily influenced by others. The stormier..ones are like Kandinsky's... Most of the others are lollipop pseudo-primitive Fauvism.
pseudoproboscis n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)prəˈbɒsɪs/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌproʊˈbɑsəs/
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/ˌsudoʊˌproʊˈbɑskəs/
Zoology rare a structure resembling or functioning as a proboscis.
ΚΠ
1831 H. McMurtrie tr. P. A. Latreille in G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom IV. 430 The pseudo-proboscis [Fr. fausse trompe] is much shorter than the body.
1988 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 319 67 Hipponix..and Capulus not only collect particles from the water stream ventilating the mantle cavity, but with a pseudoproboscis take other food within their reach.
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊs(j)uːdəʊˌhʌɪpə(ʊ)parəˈθʌɪrɔɪdɪz(ə)m/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌsudoʊˌhaɪpoʊˌpɛrəˈθaɪˌrɔɪˌdɪz(ə)m/
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/ˌsudoʊˌsudoʊˌhaɪpəˌpɛrəˈθaɪˌrɔɪˌdɪz(ə)m/
Medicine a genetic disorder in which the skeletal abnormalities of pseudohypoparathyroidism are present without the biochemical abnormalities common to hypoparathyroidism and pseudohypoparathyroidism.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > [noun] > hormonal disorders
hyperthyroidism1900
hypothyroidism1905
hyperpituitarism1909
hypopituitarism1909
hypoparathyroidism1910
thyrotoxicosis1911
hyperparathyroidism1917
hypogonadism1918
Cushing's disease1934
Cushing's syndrome1934
panhypopituitarism1941
pseudohypoparathyroidism1942
Sheehan's syndrome1950
Stein–Leventhal syndrome1950
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism1952
aldosteronism1954
hyperaldosteronism1955
Albright's dystrophy1957
Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy1962
1952 F. Albright et al. in Trans. Assoc. Amer. Physicians 65 339 We wish to present today a case with all of the characteristics of pseudohypoparathyroidism except that she has no manifestations suggesting hypoparathyroidism—no hyperphosphatemia, no hypocalcemia. Thus she might be said to have..a ‘pseudo-pseudo-hypoparathyroidism’.
1975 Arch. Dermatol. 111 90/1 A 31-year-old woman with the characteristic features of pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism, such as shortened metacarpals and metatarsals, round facies, and normal serum calcium values, was studied.
1997 Military Med. 162 510 This point is illustrated by the case history of an infantryman who served 22 years in the U.S. Marine Corps with pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.
† pseudopsia n. Medicine Obsolete rare a defect of vision in which objects are seen that are not present, or that appear distorted.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
ΚΠ
1839 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 2) 508/2 Pseudoblepsia,..Pseudopsia,..pseudoblepsis... False sight..perversion of vision.
pseudopupil n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˌpjuːpl/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌpjup(ə)l/
[after German Pseudopupille ( S. Exner Physiol. der facettirten Augen von Krebsen u. Insecten (1891) ii. 18)] chiefly Zoology a spot or structure in the eye that resembles or functions as a pupil; esp. a spot seen in the centre of the compound eye of certain insects that appears darker than the surrounding ommatidia (or shines when illuminated), owing to absorption (or reflection) of light along the axes of individual ommatidia.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > eye > pseudopupil
pseudopupil1918
1906 J. B. Smith Explan. Terms Entomol. 112 Pseudo-pupillæ, in Odonata, the black spots seen on the compound eyes of the living insects.]
1918 Classical Philol. 13 346 I have in mind two forms of coloboma of the iris.., in the second of which the cleft in the diaphragm is annular, this round pseudo-pupil being separated from the real one by a more or less considerable band of the iris.
1977 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 108/2 Looking at the eye of an insect, we frequently see a black spot in the center of the eye. As the insect rotates its head the black spot always points in the direction of the observer. The spot is known as the pseudopupil.
1992 Biol. Bull. 182 278/1 Reflectance from within the deep pseudopupil of the compound eyes and its change upon stimulation with light were monitored in individual animals.
pseudoquadraphony n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)kwɒˈdrɒfəni/
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/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)kwɒˈdrɒfn̩i/
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/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈkwɒdrəˌfɒni/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌkwɑˈdrɑfəni/
(also pseudoquadrophony) Acoustics (now rare) sound reproduction in which signals from two sources are fed to four speakers in such a way as to give a partial effect of quadraphony.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > systems of
phonography1861
wire recording1933
stereophony1950
half-track1956
stereo1956
stereophonics1958
lip-synchronization1959
mono1959
monophony1959
pretaping1959
over-recording1961
Dolby1966
quadraphonics1968
quadraphony1969
surround sound1969
periphony1970
quad1971
multitrack1972
quadraphonic1972
quadro1972
pseudoquadraphony1975
multitracking1977
vertical recording1982
bitstream1989
1975 G. J. King Audio Handbk. 2 Pseudo-quadraphony..is designated 2–2–4, which implies that the four loudspeakers obtain their signals from the two-channel source.
1976 Which? May 99/3 There is a sort of ‘fake’ quad called..ambiophony, or pseudoquadrophony. With this system, you can derive some quadrophonic effect from ordinary stereo recordings and broadcasts.
pseudoramose adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈraməʊs/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈræˌmoʊs/
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/ˌsudoʊˈræˌmoʊz/
chiefly Palaeontology (esp. of a fossil bryozoan) exhibiting false branching.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudoramose, forming false branches.
1973 Jrnl. Paleontol. 47 210/1 Zoaria flat..and rarely pseudoramose where encrusting crinoid stem.
1994 Jrnl. Paleontol. 68 991/1 Zoarium pseudoramose, axial region hollow or filled by clear diagenetic calcite.
pseudoreaction n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdə(ʊ)rɪˌakʃn/
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U.S. /ˈsudoʊriˌækʃ(ə)n/
a false positive response to a test or stimulus; (Medicine) a hypersensitivity response to diphtheria toxin or toxoid in the Schiff test.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > reactions to tests
red reflex1864
jaw-jerk1886
pseudoreaction1897
Weil–Felix reaction1919
Schultz–Charlton1922
Kolmer–Wassermann1925
Prausnitz–Küstner1929
1897 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 113 296 With serum a longer time may be allowed for the development of the reaction, as pseudo-reactions are less likely to occur.
1928 L. E. H. Whitby Med. Bacteriol. xxiii. 238 A reaction occurs in both arms, that on the control being a pseudo~reaction whereas that on the test arm is a combination of a pseudo and a positive reaction.
1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xv. 243 Allergic inflammation will develop at both sites within 12 to 18 hours... This reaction in immune individuals is the so-called ‘pseudoreaction’.
pseudoreduction n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)rᵻˈdʌkʃn/
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/ˌsudoʊriˈdəkʃ(ə)n/
Cell Biology (now rare) the apparent halving of the chromosome number as a result of the pairing of homologous chromosomes at synapsis.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > stages of mitosis or meiosis > reduction
reduction1891
reduction division1891
pseudoreduction1899
postreduction1905
prereduction1905
1899 Jrnl. Morphol. 15 Suppl. 71 It may be stated..in regard to the number of chromosomes, that it is plainly greater than in the first spermatocyte division, which is known to be post-synaptic, i.e., after the pseudo~reduction.
1954 Amer. Midland Naturalist 51 178 Pseudoreduction by parasynapsis takes place in the primary spermatocytes while the chromatin material is in the prophase.
† pseudo-rheumatic adj. [compare French pseudo-rheumatisme (1881)] Medicine Obsolete rare resembling rheumatism or a rheumatic disorder.
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1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 70 To explain the relationship of the pseudo-rheumatic troubles to the urethral discharge.
pseudorhombohedral adj.
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Crystallography of, relating to, or designating a crystal in which the crystal structure simulates the symmetry of the trigonal (rhombohedral) system but actually has lower symmetry.
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1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. Index Pseudo-rhombohedral crystals.
1947 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 191 106 The packing of the molecules in the dried crystal is pseudo-rhombohedral.
1993 Acta Crystallographica D. 49 580/1 Packing analysis reveals a pseudorhombohedral..arrangement of virus particles in the crystal lattice.
pseudorutile n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈruːtʌɪl/
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/ˌsudoʊˈruˌtaɪl/
Mineralogy a black or dark grey mineral which is a common alteration product of ilmenite occurring as thin plates and as intergrowths with ilmenite and rutile.Pseudorutile is an oxide of ferric iron and titanium, Fe2Ti3O9. Crystal structure: trigonal.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > oxides of titanium, tantalum, nickel, or rare earths > others
crichtonite1813
polymignite1826
warwickite1838
samarskite1849
adelpholite1859
guarinite1859
hielmite1861
tapiolite1868
sipylite1877
koppite1880
stibiotantalite1893
lewisite1895
mossite1898
neotantalite1903
priorite1907
arizonite1909
betafite1912
ampangabeite1913
ishikawaite1922
tanteuxenite1928
thoreaulite1934
simpsonite1937
priderite1951
irinite1955
obruchevite1955
lueshite1961
pseudo-ixiolite1963
wodginite1963
pseudorutile1966
armalcolite1970
1966 G. Teufer & A. K. Temple in Nature 9 July 180/1 As a result of an investigation of several altered ilmenite concentrates by X-ray techniques hitherto not applied to this problem, a new crystalline phase has been identified as a major constituent of altered ilmenite... We propose the name ‘pseudorutile’ for this new mineral.
1975 Amer. Mineralogist 40 905/2 The electrochemical corrosion model is consistent with the pseudorutile composition being a stable alteration product of ilmenite in which all the iron is in the ferric state.
1997 Mineral. Mag. 61 234/2 The pseudorutile is a combination of goethite and rutile as an intergrowth structure.
pseudosalt n.
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/ˈsudoʊˌsɑlt/
Chemistry a compound which is normally covalent but which under certain conditions exists as, or in equilibrium with, an ionized, salt-like form.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > pseudo-salt
pseudosalt1910
1910 N. V. Sidgwick Org. Chem. Nitrogen vii. 152 The mercury must migrate from one position to the other, according to the solvent, just as the hydrogen atom does with a pseudo-acid, and hence mercuric nitroform should be called a pseudo-salt.
1953 C. K. Ingold Struct. & Mech. Org. Chem. x. 577 Pseudo-salt formation can be seen in the reactions of methylquinolinium salts with various sources of carbanions.
1990 Organometallics 9 2638/1 Hydrocarbon-soluble molecular species with five-coordinate antimony centers. These interesting ‘pseudosalts’ are excellent sources of siloxide anions.
pseudosclerosis n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)sklᵻˈrəʊsɪs/
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[after German Pseudo-Sclerose (C. Westphal 1883, in Archiv f. Psychiatrie u. Nervenkrankheiten 14 130, now usually in form Pseudosklerose)] Medicine (now rare) any of several neurological disorders thought to resemble multiple sclerosis clinically but not pathologically; spec. Wilson's disease and (more fully spastic pseudosclerosis) Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
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1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Pseudosclerosis, name given by Westphal to cases presenting many of the symptoms of disseminated sclerosis, but in which no anatomical lesions were discovered.
1932 Brain 55 253 The diagnosis rested at first between multiple sclerosis, the lenticular degeneration syndrome (Wilson's disease, or pseudo-sclerosis) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1940 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 44 578 Spastic pseudosclerosis was first recognized as a clinical entity by Creutzfeld and Jakob.
1989 Behav. Neurol. 2 89 Pseudosclerosis came to contain a heterogeneous group of diseases, and was fiercely criticised by Wilson.
pseudosculum n.
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Zoology (now rare) (in sponges with a pseudogaster) the opening in the pseudogaster through which water is expelled from the sponge.
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1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 791 (Porifera) Such fusion frequently leads to the enclosure of spaces really external to the sponge-body, which form a false gastric cavity (pseudogaster) opening by a false osculum (pseudosculum s. pseudostome) and false pores (pseudopores).
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 719/1 A centrally placed pseudogaster, which is simply a space enclosed by upgrowth of the colony around it, may form the main exhalant canal and open to the exterior through a well-defined vent or pseudosculum.
† pseudosematic adj. Zoology Obsolete rare designating colours or markings that convey a deceptive signal to potential predators or prey, esp. by mimicking those of another species; cf. pseudaposematic adj.
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1890 E. B. Poulton Colours of Animals xvii. 336 Mimetic Resemblance and Alluring Colouration are called Pseudosematic Colours, because they usually resemble Sematic or Warning and Signalling Colours.
pseudoseptate adj.
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Zoology and Mycology (a) having the appearance of being septate; (b) having pseudosepta.
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1875 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 31 Sporidia linear,..at length pseudo-septate.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudoseptate... 2. Having pseudosepta, as corals.
1943 Jrnl. Palaeontol. 17 138/2 Portions of vesicle walls project into zooecia, giving [the] latter [a] pseudoseptate appearance.
1994 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 81 690/1 Within the order [Blastocladiales] hyphae may be septate, non-septate, or pseudoseptate.
pseudoseptum n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈsɛptəm/
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Zoology and Mycology a structure which resembles a septum but is incomplete, perforated by pores, or otherwise distinct in structure; esp. an inwardly projecting skeletal element in the calyx of an octocorallian that does not correspond with a septum of the polyp.
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1857 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 147 553 In the primary [fungal] cell, septa or pseudo-septa are formed at the point of bifurcation as well as in the body of the cell.
1889 H. A. Nicholson & R. Lydekker Man. Palæontol. (ed. 3) I. 331 Tabulate tubes of two sizes, the larger of these being furnished with radiating pseudosepta.
1985 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 72 1458 Development of hyphal septa (pseudosepta) in Allomyces macrogymus begins with the formation of five or more discontinuous pieces of wall material that project inward from the hyphal wall.
2000 Jrnl. Palaeontol. 74 414/2 The axial mode of increase in chaetetids [sc. corals] begins with the appearance of a pseudoseptum on the wall of a calicle, or a pair of pseudosepta on opposite sides.
† pseudoskink n. Obsolete rare a kind of lizard likened to a skink (not identified).
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > lizard resembling
pseudoskink1608
scincoidean1831
scincoid1841
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 142 There are..certain Pseudoscinkes..sold by Apothecaries, that are nothing else but a kind of Water-Lizzard.
† pseudosmia n. [ < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek ὀσμή smell (see osmo- comb. form1) + -ia suffix1; compare earlier parosmia n., anosmia n.] Medicine Obsolete rare a disorder of the sense of smell in which odours are perceived that are not produced by external stimuli.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 707/2 Pseudosmia, false sense of smell.
pseudo-social adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈsəʊʃl/
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exhibiting or designating apparently social behaviour that arises from individual reactions to a personal need or external stimulus, rather than from genuinely social impulses; (more generally) seemingly sociable or friendly.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > [adjective] > arising from specific cause
pseudo-social1907
1907 E. A. Ross Sin & Society 95 When they [sc. women] launch into random vice crusades they are often little better than pseudo-social.
1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. v. 60 One very common type of juvenile delinquent is the ‘pseudo-social’ delinquent, so called because he is perfectly well behaved towards other members of his gang, but not to people outside of it.
1999 Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 29 Aug. This pseudo-social informality is found everywhere in the workplace, and it's driving a lot of people crazy.
† pseudospermium n. [ < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek σπέρμα seed (see sperm n.) + -ium suffix] Botany Obsolete rare = caryopsis n.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > indehiscent fruit or achene
key1440
samara1577
achenium1819
achene1825
caryopsis1830
key fruit1849
tetrachaenium1856
cremocarp1861
Cypsela1861
achaenocarp1874
triachaenium1882
pseudospermium1890
1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudospermium, any one-seeded indehiscent fruit in which the pericarp so closely invests the seed that the whole appears as merely a seed.
† pseudospermic adj. Botany Obsolete rare designating a single-seeded fruit typical of cereals and grasses in which the pericarp is fused to the seed coat.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [adjective] > indehiscent or like an achene
four-wingeda1711
nucamentaceous1829
samaroid1830
indehiscent1832
pseudospermic1835
nucamentous1840
pseudo-spermous1849
tetrapterous1860
achenial1863
cypselous1878
schizocarpous1905
1835 J. S. Henslow Princ. Bot. ii. vi. 277 In pseudospermic Fruits..we may include all fruits whose pericarp is so closely attached to the seed, that it cannot readily be distinguished from one of its integuments.
† pseudo-spermous adj. Botany Obsolete rare = pseudospermic adj.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [adjective] > indehiscent or like an achene
four-wingeda1711
nucamentaceous1829
samaroid1830
indehiscent1832
pseudospermic1835
nucamentous1840
pseudo-spermous1849
tetrapterous1860
achenial1863
cypselous1878
schizocarpous1905
1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §531 Such fruits are called pseudo-spermous.., and are well seen in the grain of wheat.
pseudospiracle n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈspɪrᵻkl/
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/ˌsudoʊˈspaɪrᵻk(ə)l/
Zoology rare a structure or marking that resembles a spiracle but is not perforated.
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 714 In spiders..the open ventral spiracles of the scorpion are replaced by pseudo~spiracles; these..in Epeira cancriformis,..are dark red spots with an elevated rim and centre exactly resembling spiracles, except that they are not perforated.
1982 Systematic Zool. 31 168/1 Lepidobatrachus is taken to be monophyletic on the basis of..larvae with paired pseudospiracles.
pseudosporange n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)spəˈran(d)ʒ/
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[after French pseudosporange (C. Sauvageau 1899, in Jrnl. de bot. 13 112; compare quot. 1899 for pseudosporangium n.)] Botany rare disused = pseudosporangium n.
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1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 215/1 Pseudosporange, pseudosporangium, an organ producing gemmae or propagula, a simulated sporangium (Davis).
pseudosporangium n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)spəˈran(d)ʒɪəm/
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Botany and Microbiology a structure that resembles a sporangium.
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1899 B. M. Davis tr. C. Sauvageau in Bot. Gaz. 28 213 These monospores..germinate readily in cultures... I regard them as gemmae or propagula, and the organ that contains them is a pseudosporangium [Fr. pseudosporange].
1983 Internat. Jrnl. Systematic Bacteriol. 33 557 This organism produces new antibiotics called pyrrolomycins and is characterized by pseudosporangia lacking sporangial walls.
1994 Jrnl. Antibiotics 47 887 Strain LL-14E605 was classified as a ‘Sebekia’ based on the presence of..pseudosporangia encasing the spores.
pseudospore n.
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†(a) Mycology a teliospore (obsolete); (b) Biology an encystment of an individual myxamoeba in a cellular slime mould (rare).
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1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 71 These pseudospores are at first produced in chains, but ultimately separate.
1880 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 3 389 The utmost that we have been able to accomplish has been to obtain single short germinating threads from the apices of a few of the pseudospores.
1960 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 104 582 (caption) Stalked amoebae that have entered the resting stage as individual cells, forming pseudospores.
1965 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 52 513/1 The former family embraced 2 genera [of slime molds],..which were distinguished primarily on the basis of pseudospores (encysted cells lacking cell walls) in the former genus and true spores in the latter.
† pseudo-squamate adj. Zoology Obsolete rare apparently covered in scales.
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1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 425 Either part is rugate or pseudo-squamate.
pseudo-squeeze n.
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Bridge a play whereby an opponent is, or may be, misled into discarding or unguarding a potentially winning card, despite having alternative discards (cf. squeeze n. 1f).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics
echo1862
signal1864
Vienna Coup1864
Peter1885
Bath coup1897
promotion1900
finesse1902
switch1921
false-carding1923
squeeze1926
squeeze play1926
suicide squeeze1931
pseudo-squeeze1932
throw-in1932
suit preference signal1934
underlead1934
psyching1938
ruff and discard1939
hold-up1945
upper cut1955
safety play1959
1932 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 22 Mar. There are also pseudo squeezes in which the enemy guesses wrong as to what to discard.
2004 Observer (Nexis) 7 Nov. 19 If you need your left hand opponent to hold six specific cards in order to set up a pseudo-squeeze, you are in a truly uncomfortable spot.
pseudostalactitic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)staləkˈtɪtɪk/
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resembling a stalactite.
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1829 W. Buckland in Trans. Geol. Soc. 2 383 I have seen similar elongated and pseudostalactitic concretions disposed at right angles to the beds of sand.
1871 G. Hartwig Subterranean World xii. 148 Such vaulted roofs have pseudo-stalactitic projections left by the subsidence of the liquid, and are coated with a glossy varnish.
1973 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 77 335/2 Frequently, the mineralized structure reveals unfilled cavities with microscopic pseudostalactitic growths.
† pseudo-stalactitical adj. Obsolete rare = pseudostalactitic adj.
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1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xix. 450 The cylindrical cavities left by the decaying of the wood, were thus also filled up with a hard pseudo-stalactitical stone.
pseudo-statement n.
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a form of expression that formally resembles statement but does not refer or correspond to objective fact, being rather used for its subjective effect on the hearer or reader; an instance of this.
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the mind > language > statement > [noun] > a statement or declaration > resembling statement
syntactics1902
pseudo-statement1926
1926 I. A. Richards Sci. & Poetry vi. 56 We must confine ourselves to the other function of words, or rather..to one form of that function, let me call it pseudo-statement.
1926 I. A. Richards Sci. & Poetry vi. 59 A pseudo-statement is a form of words which is justified entirely by its effect in releasing or organizing our impulses and attitudes..; a statement, on the other hand, is justified by..its correspondence..with the fact to which it points.
1947 D. Rynin Johnson's Treat. Lang. 333 Only if the expression has statement meaning shall we consider it a genuine statement; otherwise we shall call it a pseudo-statement, provided it satisfies the purely grammatical requirements.
1986 A. Jefferson & D. Robey Mod. Lit. Theory (BNC) 75 Poetry is pseudo-statement..when we read it properly ‘the question of belief or disbelief, in the intellectual sense, never arises’.
pseudostem n.
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Botany (in certain monocotyledonous plants) an apparent stem formed by overlapping leaf sheaths, sometimes enclosing a true stem; esp. that of a banana or plantain plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > banana tree > trunk of
pseudostem1894
1894 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Gardens, Kew) 231 The stem (pseudo-stem) in Musas usually arises from a perennial rootstock.
1927 Bot. Gaz. 84 337 If..the trunk is cut across..it is found to be a pseudostem composed of the overlapping close-fitting leaf sheaths alone.
1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) vi. 181 The cutter selects the bunch [of bananas]; if it is in the right stage he nicks the pseudostem with his cutlass in such a way that it comes down gently.
pseudostratum n.
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Geology a mass of rock resembling a stratum but produced by a process other than sedimentary deposition, e.g. in an igneous rock as a result of parallel fractures.
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1845 J. Phillips & C. G. B. Daubeny Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 766/1 The great mass of basalt..lies in a pseudostratum of most irregular thickness.
1875 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 30 137 The interesting point about the apex of Arthur's Seat is..that its pseudo-strata are inclined at precisely the same angle as the intrusive sheets of Salisbury Craigs.
1974 Abstr. Ann. Meeting Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 1 47 At least five basic types of strata and pseudostrata can be recognized in modern dune sands.
pseudosymmetry n.
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Crystallography the simulation of a higher level of symmetry (e.g. by twinning) in certain composite crystals.
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1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 77 Mallard has just published a paper upon the action of heat upon crystallized substances, in which his former conclusions regarding pseudosymmetry appear to be confirmed.
1976 Physics Bull. Nov. 496/1 In such cases the high degree of pseudosymmetry makes the conventional spacegroup characterization an uninformative description.
1995 Amer. Mineralogist 80 1058 All crystals tested..showed a strong orthorhombic pseudosymmetry. This means that all crystals were twinned.
pseudotachylite n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈtakɪlʌɪt/
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(also pseudotachylyte) Geology a dark, fine-grained or glassy intrusive rock resembling tachylite that results from vitrification by frictional heat generated during dynamic metamorphism and typically occurs in faults and veins.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > trap > basalt > other basaltic
bluestone1849
palagonite1851
tholeiite1866
tachylite1868
anamesite1876
dhu stone1879
hyalomelan1879
tephrite1879
shoshonite1895
pseudotachylite1917
ankaramite1926
oceanite1926
1917 S. J. Shand in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 72 199 The name pseudotachylyte has been adopted in recognition of the fact that these rocks have a great similarity to tachylyte.
1954 H. Williams et al. Petrogr. xi. 202 X-ray investigation and measurement of the refractive index have shown some pseudotachylytes to be cryptocrystalline products of extreme crushing of rocks such as granite, without actual melting.
2005 Nature 30 June 1171/1 The Bergen Arc eclogites exhibit features..such as the brittle fracturing of the garnets they contain, and the formation of pseudotachylites (rocks formed by friction melting along fractures) within them.
pseudotachylitic adj.
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(also pseudotachylytic) Geology of or designating a pseudotachylite.
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1947 Proc. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akad. van Wetenschappen 50 1310 (title) A pseudotachylytic rock from eastern Borneo.
1985 Science 25 Oct. 436/3 Both the Superior Province and the Proterozoic rocks..are commonly brecciated, with a pseudotachylitic matrix.
pseudotetragonal adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)tɛˈtraɡ(ə)nl/
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Crystallography of, relating to, or designating a crystal in which the crystal structure simulates the symmetry of the tetragonal system but actually has lower symmetry.
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1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 422 Among pseudo-tetragonal crystals may be mentioned apophyllite, idocrase and zircon, now shown to be assemblages of monoclinic crystals.
1968 I. Kostov Mineral. ii. vii. 467 Ekdemite is tetragonal, dimorphous with heliophyllite which is orthorhombic pseudotetragonal.
1984 N. N. Greenwood & A. Earnshaw Chem. of Elements (1986) vii. 252 Gallium has a unique orthorhombic (pseudotetragonal) structure in which each Ga has 1 very close neighbour at 244 pm and 6 further neighbours, 2 each at 270, 273 and 279 pm.
pseudotetraploid n. and adj.
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Genetics (a) n.an organism having a chromosome complement which differs from the normal tetraploid complement in constitution but not in number; (b) adj. designating an organism or species having such f complement.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromosome > ploidy > individual
haploid1908
tetraploid1914
haplont1918
hexaploid1921
pentaploid1921
pseudotetraploid1923
octoploid1926
triploid1927
allopolyploid1928
autopolyploid1928
polyploid1928
hyperdiploid1929
allotetraploid1930
autotetraploid1930
hyperploid1930
hypoploid1930
autoploid1932
polysomic1933
mixoploid1939
monoploid1944
amphiploid1945
merozygote1956
merodiploid1964
1923 Bot. Gaz. 76 330 Of two plants from our cultures, each of which had a total of 48 chromosomes in their somatic cells.., one appears to have been a chromosomal mutant of the type (4n + 1 − 1) and the other a mutant of the type (4n + 1 + 1 − 1 − 1). Such forms obviously cannot properly be called 4n or tetraploid. They..may be classified as modified tetraploids, or at most as ‘pseudotetraploids’.
1957 R. A. Beatty Parthenogenesis & Polyploidy in Mammalian Devel. vi. 94 If, for example, all chromosomes fragmented into two, then a diploid organism would be transformed into a ‘pseudotetraploid’, with twice the normal chromosome number, but still with the same amount of chromosomal material per cell.
1997 Gene 194 215 With Xenopus laevis being a pseudotetraploid species, each monomer is encoded by two genes.
pseudo-till n.
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Geology (now rare) a deposit similar to a till but non-glacial in origin.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > pseudotill
pseudotillite1931
pseudo-till1957
1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era I. xxvii. 569 Solifluxion..produces stony clays or pseudo-tills.
1966 Earth-Sci. Rev. 2 249 None of these thickness criteria, alone, can distinguish tills..from pseudo-tills.
pseudotillite n.
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[in later use after German Pseudotillit ( M. Schwarzbach Das Klima der Vorzeit (ed. 2, 1961) v. 34)] Geology (now rare) a deposit similar to tillite but non-glacial in origin.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > pseudotill
pseudotillite1931
pseudo-till1957
1931 A. S. Warthin in Reprint & Circular Ser. (National Res. Council (U.S.)) No. 98. 94 (title) Ordovician pseudotillite at Poughkeepsie, New York.
1963 R. O. Muir tr. Schwarbach Climates of Past v. 39 I would recommend that the term tillite be applied not only to undoubted moraines but to all moraine-like sediments of probable or possible glacial or glacio-marine origin. Those later shown to be..of non~glacial origin, may then, more properly, be called pseudo~tillites.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 473/2 Any sort of ‘accidental’ mixture such as is caused by a gravitational flow..can easily be taken for a glacial till, i.e., it is a pseudotillite.
pseudotrachea n.
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chiefly Entomology a fine ridged food channel on the ventral surface of the labellum in many flies; (also) an air-filled tubule in certain woodlice which resembles an insect's trachea.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > member of > parts of > food-channel
pseudotrachea1869
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus > organ in wood-louse
pseudotrachea1869
1869 W. T. Suffolk in Monthly Microsc. Jrnl. 1 340 The skeleton of the pseudo-tracheæ consists of curiously forked half-hoops of chine.
1890 B. T. Lowne Anat., Physiol., Morphol., & Devel. Blow-fly I. iv. 146 The Pseudotracheæ are cylindrical channels on the oral surface of the disc.
1954 New Biol. 17 44 Those species [of woodlice] which can withstand drier conditions are also those which possess these ‘pseudotracheae’.
1997 Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 90 184 Food particles and liquids were ingested only through fine micropores..on the pseudotracheae.
pseudotracheal adj.
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chiefly Entomology resembling a trachea; having a series of rings like those of the trachea; of, relating to, or of the nature of a pseudotrachea.
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1890 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 17 338 The figure is correct, save in the pseudo-tracheal system of the galea.
1900 L. C. Miall & A. R. Hammond Struct. & Life Hist. Harlequin Fly ii. 70 The salivary ducts..have a ring (‘pseudotracheal’) structure.
1986 Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 79 150 Pseudotracheal diameter was measured and considered to be an important reflection of diet.
pseudo-uniseptate adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)juːnɪˈsɛpteɪt/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌjunəˈsɛpˌteɪt/
Mycology rare having the appearance of being uniseptate.
ΚΠ
1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 407 Sporidia..becoming pseudo-uniseptate.
1935 W. B. Grove Brit. Stem- & Leaf-fungi I. 131 Spores abundant,..variously guttulate, at last pseudo-uniseptate in the middle.
pseudouracil n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈjʊərəsɪl/
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/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈjɔːrəsɪl/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈjʊrəˌsɪl/
Biochemistry the uracil residue present in pseudouridine.
ΚΠ
1961 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 47 1600 Bases such as pseudouracil, methylated guanines, etc., found in soluble RNA, are not present in ribosomal RNA.
1978 Sci. Amer. Jan. 62/3 In some systems the control function is associated with a particular modified nucleotide in the tRNA molecule, for example a uracil that has been converted into a pseudouracil.
1990 Nucleic Acids Res. 18 4182/2 (caption) The symbol ϕ at position 50 is the pseudouracil residue characteristic of this position in 5S RNA species.
pseudouridine n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈjʊərᵻdiːn/
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/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈjɔːrᵻdiːn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈjʊrəˌdin/
,
/ˌsudoʊˈjʊrədn/
Biochemistry a nucleoside found in transfer RNA that differs from uridine in having the sugar residue attached to the base at a carbon atom rather than a nitrogen atom.Systematic name: 5-β- d-ribofuranosyluracil.
ΚΠ
1959 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 32 571 It is proposed (by Dr. A. Michelson) that this substance be called pseudouridine, with the symbol ψ for the prefix ‘pseudo’ in abbreviations.
1982 T. M. Devlin Textbk. Biochem. xii. 635 The level of pseudouridine in the urine is also an excellent measure of tRNA turnover.
2004 Acta Crystallographica D 60 775/1 Pseudouridine is found in all three kingdoms of life including eukaryotic organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts. The synthesis of ψ is performed by pseudouridine synthases, which are able to recognize and convert specific uridine residues in rRNA, tRNA and snRNA.
pseudovirion n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈvɪrɪən/
,
/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈvʌɪrɪən/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈvaɪriˌɑn/
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/ˌsudoʊˈvɪriˌɑn/
Virology a viral particle that does not contain the viral genome.
ΚΠ
1967 M. R. Michel et al. in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 58 1381 Viral particles that contain mouse DNA instead of the viral genome are not infective and are referred to as Py pseudovirions.
1984 Science 6 Jan. 45/3 Notable is the recent progress in the..encapsidation of chloroplast RNA transcripts in pseudovirions of tobacco mosaic virus.
2005 Jrnl. Virol. 79 5537 (title) Pseudovirion particle production by live poxvirus human immunodeficiency virus vaccine vector enhances humoral and cellular immune responses.
pseudoviscosity n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)vɪˈskɒsᵻti/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊvᵻˈskɑsədi/
Science a property analogous to viscosity, such as the plasticity of a solid or the viscous resistance of a sludge, plasma, etc.
ΚΠ
1894 Daily News 22 Aug. 5/3 It is this pseudo-viscosity of ice that enables a glacier to accommodate itself to the bed over which it flows.
1929 Blair & Crowther in Jrnl. Physical Chem. 33 321 The constant..has been called by most workers by the unfortunate name of ‘Plasticity’ and has the same dimensions as viscosity, although..it is not independent of pressure... We propose to term this constant ‘Pseudo viscosity’.
1978 Astrophysical Jrnl.: Lett. 221 83 Numerical stellar collapse calculations using a pseudoviscosity can thus seriously underestimate the neutrino flux across the shock.
1998 SIAM Jrnl. Numerical Anal. 35 15 Solving a heat equation with a ‘small parameter’ ν which is dependent on the time step Δt..may be interpreted, in numerical terms, as a pseudoviscosity.
pseudovitamin n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈvɪtəmɪn/
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/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈvʌɪtəmɪn/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈvaɪdəmən/
Biochemistry and Medicine a compound that is not a vitamin but closely resembles a particular vitamin in molecular structure.
ΚΠ
1951 Abstr. of Papers 120th Meeting Amer. Chem. Soc. 22c (heading) Crystalline pseudovitamin B12.
1983 Internat. Jrnl. Appl. Radiation & Isotopes 34 817 Pigs which suffer from pseudovitamin D deficiency rickets.
2002 Jrnl. Endocrinol. Investig. 25 557 A 15-month-old boy with severe rickets..was diagnosed as affected by hereditary pseudovitamin D deficiency rickets.
pseudovitellus n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)vᵻˈtɛləs/
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/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)vʌɪˈtɛləs/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊvəˈtɛləs/
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/ˌsudoʊˌvaɪˈtɛləs/
Entomology (now rare) = mycetome n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > specialized cell > cell containing micro-organisms or mycetocyte > mycetome
pseudovitellus1858
mycetoma1923
mycetome1924
1858 T. H. Huxley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 22 208 The central mass..completely simulates the vitellus of an impregnated ovum; and I will therefore term it a ‘pseudovitellus’.
1924 Philippine Jrnl. Sci. 24 150 Henneguy..also described the origin of the ‘pseudovitellus’ from the follicular epithelium.
1946 E. A. Steinhaus Insect Microbiol. iv. 190 In 1850 Leydig observed certain organs in aphids which have subsequently been called ‘symbiotic organs’, ‘pseudovitelli’, ‘green bodies’, ‘bacteriotomes’, and ‘mycetoms’ or ‘mycetomes’.
pseudo-volcanic adj.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)vɒlˈkanɪk/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌvɔlˈkænɪk/
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/ˌsudoʊˌvɑlˈkænɪk/
Physical Geography †(a) (of a rock or mineral) produced by the action of heat, but not in a volcano (e.g. from the underground burning of coal) (obsolete); (b) designating geographical features (e.g. craters) resembling those formed by volcanic action.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [adjective] > volcanic > pseudo-volcanic
pseudo-volcanic1794
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 394 The fires from which many minerals derive their form and aggregation are either volcanic or pseudo-volcanic.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 499 Volcanic Rocks..are divided into true volcanic and pseudo-volcanic;..the second comprehending clays and ironstones, indurated and partially melted by the heat from beds of burning coal.
1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. xx. 515 Certain topographic features resemble volcanic forms so much that, lacking a better name, we have designated them as pseudovolcanic.
1984 Geothermics 13 389 Many hot water springs in the vicinity of these pseudo-volcanic manifestations had been used for centuries as ‘baths’.
pseudo-volcano n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌvɔlˈkeɪnoʊ/
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/ˌsudoʊˌvɑlˈkeɪnoʊ/
now historical a hill or vent that emits smoke, flame, or gases, but not lava (e.g. above a coal mine that has accidentally caught fire).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun]
Vulcan?a1425
volcan1577
volcano1613
furnace1660
volcanello1669
volcano mountain1693
pseudo-volcano1794
mud volcano1816
salse1831
stratovolcano1894
shield volcano1911
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 419 Pseudo-volcanos are so called, because, like volcanos, they emit smoke, and sometimes flame, but never lava... Most of these are coal mines which have accidentally taken fire.
1897 Science 1 Jan. 7/2 Nicollet..got authentic accounts of pseudo-volcanoes caused by the spontaneous combustion of bituminous material within the rocks.
1970 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 114 51/1 The phenomenon was due to the melting of shale overlying coal beds which had been set on fire... These were the ‘pseudo-volcanoes’.
pseudowavellite n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈweɪvl̩ʌɪt/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈweɪvəˌlaɪt/
[after German Pseudowavellit (F. Henrich, after H. Laubmann, 1922, in Berichte der Deutsch. Chem. Ges. 55B 3016)] Mineralogy (now rare) a mineral consisting of a hydroxide and phosphate of calcium and aluminium that is now regarded as identical with crandallite.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > phosphates > [noun] > aluminium or calcium phosphates
tavistockite1868
goyazite1884
pseudowavellite1925
montgomeryite1940
1925 Mineral. Mag. 20 463 Pseudowavellite... Hydrated phosphate of aluminium with lime, ferric iron, and rare-earths... So named because of its resemblance to wavellite, of which it is perhaps an alteration product.
1951 C. Palache et al. Dana's Syst. Mineral. (ed. 7) II. 837 Available evidence indicates that crandallite and pseudowavellite are best considered as a single species with some variation of composition, the name crandallite having priority.
1959 Jrnl. Agric. & Food Chem. 7 719/1 The phosphate in the ores is present primarily as the minerals wavellite and pseudowavellite, although some ores contain varying amounts of apatite.
pseudowhorl n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdə(ʊ)wəːl/
,
U.S. /ˈsudəˌ(h)wɔrl/
,
/ˈsudəˌ(h)wərl/
Botany rare an apparent whorl of plant parts, especially of leaves, resulting from alteration of the distances between nodes spirally arranged around an axis.
ΚΠ
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 368 Each cycle of segments or turn of the spiral produces a whorl, which therefore, strictly speaking, is a pseudo~whorl, because resulting from subsequent displacement.
1987 Aquatic Bot. 28 179 The first node of the rhizome produced a root and an upright shoot with a pseudowhorl of three to five leaves.
pseudowollastonite n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈwʊləstənʌɪt/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈwʊləstəˌnaɪt/
,
/ˌsudoʊˈwɑləstəˌnaɪt/
[after French pseudowollastonite ( A. Lacroix Minéral. de la France (1893 –5) I. 624)] Mineralogy a structurally distinct form of the mineral wollastonite occurring in slags, cement, and ceramic materials that is stable at high temperatures and normally changes to wollastonite at ordinary temperatures.Pseudowollastonite is a calcium silicate, CaSiO3. Crystal system: monoclinic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > inosilicates single chain > [noun] > pyroxenoid > wollastonite
schaalstein1804
table spar1814
wollastonite1823
grammite1826
pseudowollastonite1905
parawollastonite1935
1905 Science 1 Dec. 703/2 Reversion from pseudo-wollastonite to wollastonite does not take place when the two forms are heated together below the inversion point.
1970 R. W. Andrews Wollastonite 5 Natural pseudowollastonite has been reported from only one locality, in Iran.
1990 Sci. Amer. Apr. 81/2 (caption) Tiny droplets in the glaze emulsion were etched away by acid, leaving a pitted surface; the white balls are pseudowollastonite crystals, which make the glaze cloudy.
pseudoxanthine n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈzanθiːn/
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/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈzanθʌɪn/
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U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈzænˌθin/
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/ˌsudoʊˈzænθən/
[after French pseudoxanthine (A. Gautier 1886, in Bull. de l'Acad. de Méd. 15 131, or perhaps earlier)] Chemistry (now disused) an alkaloid resembling xanthine that occurs in muscular tissue.
ΚΠ
1886 Science 7 May 411/2 Prof. A. Gautier has recently published an account of his experiments and researches on ptomaines and leucomaines... Leucomaines are found abundantly in the muscles: they are of many sorts. Xantocréatine, crusocréatine, amphicréatine, pseudoxanthine, are the most important.
1914 J. A. Mandel tr. O. Hammarstein & S. G. Hedin Text-bk. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 7) x. 578 We must also include..those bodies..which occur only in very small quantities, namely the leucomaines..and pseudoxanthine, C4H5N5O.
pseudoxanthoma n.
Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)zanˈθəʊmə/
,
U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌzænˈθoʊmə/
[after German Pseudoxanthoma (J. F. Darier 1896, in Monatschr. f. prakt. Dermatol. 23 616)] Medicine (in full pseudoxanthoma elasticum) a genetic disorder of elastic tissue leading to the formation of soft, yellowish papules and plaques in the skin, angioid streaks in the retina, and cardiovascular disease.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > congenital or hereditary syndromes > [noun]
amyelia1865
amelia1872
congenital myotonia1886
myotonia congenita1887
Thomsen's disease1890
von Recklinghausen's disease1899
pseudoxanthoma1900
Werdnig–Hoffmann1903
myotonia atrophica1908
Fröhlich1909
Milroy's disease1909
Lindau disease1928
Steinert's disease1932
von Hippel–Lindau disease1932
Werner's syndrome1934
Sturge–Weber syndrome1935
gargoylism1936
Morgagni's syndrome1936
Hurler's disease1937
von Willebrand1941
Turner1942
autism1944
hypophosphatasia1948
Klinefelter1950
mucopolysaccharidosis1952
progeria1957
Pendred1960
Down's syndrome1961
Patau's syndrome1961
Marinesco–Sjögren syndrome1962
cri du chat syndrome1964
Prader–Willi syndrome1964
Noonan syndrome1965
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome1966
Wernicke–Korsakoff1966
Down1967
mannosidosis1969
mucolipidosis1970
Asperger's syndrome1971
Angelman syndrome1972
adrenoleukodystrophy1973
SCID1973
severe combined immune deficiency1973
Miller–Dieker syndrome1980
Asperger1988
Asperger's disorder1994
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > degeneration
depravation1661
cretification1849
histolysis1853
steatosis1860
cretifaction1873
fibrosis1873
hyalinosis1876
fibrosing1879
sarcomatosis1890
tyrosis1896
hyaline degeneration1897
amyloidosis1900
pseudoxanthoma1900
blastophthoria1908
hyalinization1919
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > other eruptive diseases
gutta rosaceac1400
spotted death1623
spotted fever1623
horse-pox1656
flock-pox1672
hog pox1676
spotted pestilence1783
salt rheum1809
molluscum1813
molluscum contagiosum1817
grease-pox1822
horn-pox1822
date fever1836
glass-pock1858
molluscum sebaceum1866
verruga1873
furunculosis1886
gutta rubea1886
flannel rash1888
vaccinide1889
rubeoloid1893
pox1897
veld sores1898
spotted sickness1899
sweat-rash1899
synanthema1899
sporotrichosis1908
alastrim1911
pseudoxanthoma elasticum1933
monkeypox1960
scleromyxœdema1964
yusho1969
1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 545/1 Pseudoxanthoma, a disease resembling xanthoma.
1901 Brit. Jrnl. Dermatol. 13 232 The author ranges himself with Darier, and considers the condition to be due to a degeneration of elastic tissue... The qualification ‘pseudo’-xanthoma should be insisted upon.
1933 Arch. Dermatol. & Syphilol. 28 553 The histologic evidences of pseudoxanthoma elasticum are fragmentation and degeneration of the elastic tissue.
2000 G. Laurie Genetic Privacy vi. 320 Those suffering from the rare genetic disorder pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) have reached agreement with researchers to provide samples only on the condition that they are named as joint patentees in any subsequent patent applications.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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