单词 | radical moisture |
释义 | > as lemmasradical moisture a. Of, belonging to, or from a root or roots; fundamental to or inherent in the natural processes of life, vital; spec. designating the humour or moisture once thought to be present in all living organisms as a necessary condition of their vitality; usually in radical heat, radical humidity, radical humour, radical moisture, radical sap. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > of humours radicala1398 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [adjective] > humours > specific moista1393 cholerica1398 melancholya1398 radicala1398 sanguinea1398 adusta1400 phlegmatica1400 adusted1547 phlegmatical1586 humid1604 sanguineous1732 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 221 Þe onyoun..haþ þer vnder oþere rootes..and þerby..radical [L. radicalis] humour is ysent in to al þe herbe. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 159 Sith þat medicynez wirkeþ by lyknes..it noȝt fyndyng yuel humour noying, turneþ it selfe to þe flesh and to þe radicale humiditeez [?c1425 Paris radical moystures]. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 313 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 497 (MED) Of etikes ther be kyndes thre, But oon ther is pereilous..The which is, whan..Deeply profoundid is heete natural In thilke humydite i-callyd radical. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 21 The Power Vegetatif restith neuir..in reparing the hurte of the radicall humour. 1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. vii. sig. f3v The radycall naturall humour of that appell wyll increase whyle it is growynge. a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 56v (MED) Mineralls be nourisshid by mynistracione Of moistures radicall which their begyning was. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 531 The better will she imploy her radicall sap and moisture to fructifie and yeeld good store of grapes. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. xii. 230 Whilst thus my sorrow-wasting soule was feeding Vpon the rad'call Humour of her thought. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §43 Though the radicall humor containe in it sufficient oyle for seventy, yet I perceive in some it gives no light past thirty. View more context for this quotation 1713 Sin Punished 12 They deprive themselves of Sleep, consume their Radical Humour..and go down to the Chambers of Death before their time. 1772 J. W. Fletcher Appeal Matter of Fact ii. 56 His intense application hath..almost dryed up his radical moisture. 1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 235 Our wood fire scarcely suffices to keep up the radical heat. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 330 Being a water-baby, his radical humours were of a moist and cold nature. 1963 R. G. de Bray tr. A. Reymond Hist. Sci. in Greco-Rom. Antiq. v. 52 Perfect health corresponds to a perfect equilibrium in the proportion and qualities of the four radical humours. 2002 K. Albala Eating Right in Renaissance iv. 154 Aging..was seen as a process of gradually becoming drier and colder as the vital heat slowly burns the radical moisture in the body. < as lemmas |
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