单词 | recurrency |
释义 | recurrencyn. a. The act or action of moving back and forth. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Recorrenza, a recurrency or running to and fro. b. = recurrence n. 5. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > ebbing or flowing out ebba1000 ebbingc1000 fresha1552 fall1571 vale-water1589 refloat1594 reflow1610 downtide1668 recurrency1724 out1756 retroposition1836 ebb-tide1837 recurrence1857 1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 33 192 Which has persuaded many Men, that there is a recurrency in the deep Water in the middle of the Gut, that sets outwards to the grand Ocean. 2. = recurrence n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [noun] > recurrence return1567 revolution1593 recurrence1641 recurrency1652 repeatedness1664 resurgence1798 resurgency1810 1652 D. Cawdrey Sabbatum Redivivum ii. 83 Some have found this burden in the Recurrency of the day, in a weekly Revolution. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northumb. 310 The same is reported by Herodotus..and may be an instance of the recurrency of remarkable accidents. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 73 This will be over-ruled by the Recurrency of the Associations. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. iii. 344 The frequent Recurrency of these Fears and Anxieties must embitter all guilty Pleasures. 1861 Dinah li. 341 Sticks of candy and sugar cookies were observable in his possession in remarkable recurrency. 1928 H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng. (ed. 2) I. i. i. 83 The principal verbs used to express recurrency, i.e. the iterative aspect of an action..are can, to use and will. 1963 Business Hist. Rev. 37 1 History's doctrine of recurrency has never been better illustrated than in the annals of fashion. 2004 N. Brown Global Instability & Strategic Crisis i. i. 21 Afghanistan is entered upon an era of drought recurrency, perhaps accentuated by the ‘Asian Brown Cloud’ of pollutants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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