单词 | quassation |
释义 | † quassationn. Obsolete. Shaking; beating, pounding, crushing; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] beating?c1225 quassation?a1425 bunchingc1440 tunsionc1440 hammering1563 pealing1582 flapping1629 pulsation1656 dousing1721 pummelling1755 pommelling1788 dunching1789 walloping1837 whacking1862 shit-kicking1954 beat-down1989 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > shaking > action of shaking something quassation?a1425 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 66v Quassacion [?c1425 Paris Bresynge and fruschinge; L. Quassatio] of nerues..when þer is made ulceracion with þe skynne yquassate togider. 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations xvii. 100 This is most certain, that Egges suffer quassation, concussion, and dissolution very easily, if any man disturb them while the Hen is Sitting. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. i. 68 Solidated by continual contusions, threshings, and quassations. 1683 J. Pettus Ess. Metallick Words at Boyling, in Fleta Minor ii By quassation and constant compressure of such flexible grounds. 1756 E. Perronet Mitre ii. lviii. 75 What, wert thou drawn upon a sledge, All traitors just desert: Would heavy weigh around thy neck, And, with the first quassation break The sinews of thy heart. 1845 G. Raymond Mem. R. W. Elliston (1846) II. ii. 50 After a little further quassation, the delinquent was suffered to escape. 1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Quassation,..in Pharmacy,..reducing roots and tough bark to pieces, to facilitate the extraction of their chief active principles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.?a1425 |
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