单词 | recedent |
释义 | recedentadj.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > gout > striking inwards misplaced1768 retrocedent1777 recedent1785 1785 G. Motherby New Med. Dict. (ed. 2) at Arthritis The retrograde or recedent gout is when inflammation hath as usual attacked the joints, but not with either its usual degree or the usual pain, and then suddenly abates, an internal part as suddenly being affected thereby. 1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 198 Retrograde; recedent; misplaced Gout. 1824 S. Hibbert Sketches Philos. Apparitions xi. 84 In the constitutional affection of gout,..similar states of mind, particularly in the recedent form of the disease, have been experienced. ?1867 ‘Dr. Bennett’ Let. in D. Dunlop Philos. Bath (1868) xx. 354 Unmitigated never-ceasing pain day or night—the result of recedent gout. 2. That recedes (in various senses); sloping backwards; retreating; regressive; = receding adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [adjective] > retiring, withdrawing, or retreating retiringc1595 withdrawing1611 back1633 retreating1643 recondite1835 recedent1849 the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping > backwards borrow1686 supine1697 retired1802 recedent1849 receding1866 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 140 Every intelligent writer on Art has insisted on the difference between the copying found in an advancing or recedent period. 1889 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 26 560 The mentum is recedent; the posterior border being on a line which extends between the second premolar and the first molar. 1920 Science 3 Dec. 538/2 The general facts seem to indicate conditions not unlike those found about such recedent lakes as Bonneville and Lahontan. 1949 F. J. Matchette Outl. Metaphysics vi. 89 Man recedes from the Absolute, with respect to the spiritual states which initiate his physical activities, these recedent states are themselves on the way toward the Absolute. 1986 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 45 209/2 In aesthetically coherent objects, one will be able to distinguish emergent or dominant parts from recedent parts or the ground. 2005 Times (Nexis) 16 Nov. 33 She had been seeing his face in newspapers and on television again, remembering his oddly shaped ears and slightly recedent lower jaw. 3. Ecology. Designating or relating to a species that constitutes only a small proportion of the individuals in a community. Cf. dominant adj. 8, subdominant adj.2 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in interrelationship > [adjective] > organisms by position in community subdominant1898 recedent1944 1944 M. Hammer Stud. Oribatids & Collemboles Greenland in Meddelelser om Grønland 141 iii. 62 Recedent: species constituting less than 2 per cent. of the entire number of individuals. 1950 Acta Zoologica Fennica 63 53 The catastrophical winters drove it [sc. the Razorbill] down among the recedent species (0.9%). 1990 K. Tajovský in A. Minelli Proc. 7th Internat. Congr. Myriapodol. 233 Millipede population of the deciduous forest had a more stable character with two dominant species and subdominant and recedent species. 2002 European Jrnl. Soil Biol. 38 190/2 In young dune soils they [sc. Colpodea] are reduced to recedent occurrence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1785 |
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