单词 | razing |
释义 | razingn. 1. The action of raze v. (in various senses); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition subversiona1382 razinga1400 racing?a1450 beating down1530 rasing1552 demolishing1560 plucking1560 demolitiona1572 downpulling1581 demolishment1602 slighting1640 wreck1711 wrecking1775 wreckage1837 train-wrecking1872 unbuilding1879 demo1945 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > [noun] > scratching, scraping, or abrasion clawing1398 razinga1400 scrattinga1400 scrapingc1440 scrape1483 raze1530 rasure1596 rasion1617 scrub1621 scrubbing1622 scrapelet1625 grazing1698 scratch1765 rake1869 α. β. 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 32 Touching the razing, and sacking of cities, this greatlie is to be considered: that nothing rashlie, nothing cruellie be done.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rature,..a razing, or scraping out.a1640 J. Ball Answer to Iohn Can (1642) ii. 7 What hath beene their seeking from time to time? a razing of the communion booke! No.1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love v. i. 54 The rough razings of the pointed steel.1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 126 The Messiah and his Messenger must have come, before the razing of that Temple.1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric II. iii. ii. 285 In a proper pleonasm a complete correction is always made by razing.1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxiii. 285 Many a man..has had the firmness of his nature conquered by the razing of an air-built castle.1890 F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads IV. vii. 55/2 (note) A letter of Argyle's..would seem to show that he was not there in person during the razing and burning.1902 E. F. Henderson Short Hist. Germany II. i. 18 The estates..clamored for..the razing of certain fortifications.1945 Harvard Law Rev. 58 793 The Supreme Court by occasional lack of candor and by razing of established landmarks has made it difficult or impossible for counsel to offer assurances in the future.1996 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Apr. b4/2 [He] blames nearby Interstate 95 for an influx of drug buyers and the razing of the Lafayette Courts in East Baltimore last summer.a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 86 (MED) Þouȝ þat þou clense þe rotid boon wiþ schauynge or wiþ filynge..kynde wole afterward don awey a schelle of þilke same boon, nouȝt aȝenstondynge þi schauynge & þi rasynge [v.r. raspynge]. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 424 Rasynge [?a1475 Winch. Racynge] of scrapynge of bokys or other lyke, abrasio, rasura. 1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. cc.iv By those..we make a perfyte rasynge & clensinge of the soule from synnes. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxc v For the paiment of ye mony & rasing of his castels. 1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia ix. 73 in J. Smith Map of Virginia Having so much threatned their ruine, and the rasing of their houses, boats, and canowes. 1654 D. Dickson Brief Explic. Last 50 Psalmes cxxxvii No lesse will suffice the adversaries of the Church then the utter ruine, and rasing of it to the ground. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Rasing, the act of marking, by the edges of moulds, any figure upon timber, &c. with a raising-knife. 1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) v. 143 The rasing of that city by the Philistines. 1915 H. von Treitschke Germany, France, Russia & Islam iii. 175 The rasing of those useless fortifications of Vauban. 1954 A. Lobanov-Rostovsky Russia & Europe, 1825–1878 viii. 206 He outlines the British desiderata..as being the rasing of Nikolaev and the cutting off of Russia from the Black Sea. 2000 G. J. White Restoration & Reform i. 7 One of Henry's first acts as king..was to order..the rasing of castles built since his grandfather's death. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > a) scraping(s) or shaving(s) shavingc1386 rasurea1400 razing?a1425 scrapings1511 rasing1552 scaling1651 ramentum1658 raments1670 abrasion1684 scrapeage1851 α. β. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 363 Particles..as if they had been razings of crystals.?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 131v In stede of it..be take þe grene rascature, i. rasyng [?c1425 Paris cancre], of vesselz biȝonde see. 1544 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) x. f. lxxiiiv Take the rasyng of yuory, and the rasing of an hartes horne [etc.]. 1562 W. Bullein Comfortable Regiment sig. Ej Many greate learned wise men, haue giuen vnto their pacientes, twoo, three, or fower vnces, of clene Flaxe, or Linte seede Oile to drinke, with a little pouder or rasyng of a Bores tusch. Compounds razing-knife n. Nautical, now historical a knife used for marking timber, lead, etc., on board ship. ΚΠ 1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 123 Rasing, the act of marking by a mould on a piece of timber; or any marks made by a tool called a rasing-knife. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 246 Rasing, making with a knife the form of a mould on a piece of timber; or making any mark with a rasing knife, which is a particular kind of knife hooked at its point. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 561 The rasing-knife..has a peculiar blade hooked at its point, as well as a centre-pin to describe circles. 2001 T. J. Kent Ft. Pontchartrain at Detroit II. 847 It is highly likely that some fur trade outfitters employed a raising knife to mark outgoing wooden crates, boxes, and kegs. razing-iron n. Nautical, now historical a tool used for cleaning out a ship's seams, or for marking items. ΚΠ 1833 Times 9 Mar. 6/7 About 20 logs of mahogany have been picked up and are marked with a razing iron ‘F’. 1844 Trial of Pedro de Zulueta 321 I numbered each stave, stave by stave, till I had completed the circle of thirty or forty staves... I razed them with a proper razing iron. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 561 Rasing-Iron, a tool for clearing the pitch and oakum out of the seams, previous to their being caulked afresh. 1945 Irish Maritime Surv. 328 Raising iron, a chisel for removing old caulking. In seaman's parlance, it is called a rave-hook. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). razingadj. rare. That razes. ΚΠ 1649 Princely Pellican 21 But such was the benignity of the Conquerour, or Divine providence rather, that would not suffer so excellent a worke..to be exposed to the rude razing hand of an illiterate Souldier. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 419 Her snowie Hand the razing Steel profan'd. 1822 tr. C. Dupin Tour Naval & Mil. Establishments Great Brit. ii. vi. 114 At the very edge of the sea, on a small eminence, is a bastioned fort, which by a razing fire protects the entrance to the harbour of Dover. 1899 Short Stories July–Sept. 100 The whirring crack of a bullet and a razing pain along his cheek stayed him the least instant. 1959 A. Ridler Coll. Poems (1994) 127 I had a beginning but shall have no end: Even though the blade Of razing Time Abrades my form. 1997 D. G. Anderson in S. Bridger & F. Pine Surviving Post-Socialism iv. 53 A pastoral landscape, which makes itself conspicuous merely through having escaped the razing blade of the bulldozer. 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