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单词 rejuvenescence
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rejuvenescencen.

Brit. /ˌriːdʒuːvᵻˈnɛsns/, /rᵻˌdʒuːvᵻˈnɛsns/, U.S. /rəˌdʒuvəˈnɛsəns/, /riˌdʒuvəˈnɛsəns/
Forms: 1600s 1800s– rejuveniscence (rare), 1600s– rejuvenescence.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin rejuvenescere , -ence suffix.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin rejuvenescere rejuvenesce v. + -ence suffix; compare -escence suffix. In sense 2 after German Verjüngung (1851 in this sense in the passage translated in quot. 1853; 18th cent. in general sense ‘renewal of youth’; 16th cent. as verjungung ). Compare senescence n., reviviscence n.
1. The action or process of becoming young again; the renewal of youth or vitality. Also: an instance of this. Frequently figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun] > rejuvenation
rejuvenescencea1631
rejuvenescencya1661
rejuvenation1746
a (new) lease of life1853
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) V. 292 With a re-juveniscence, a new and a fresh youth.
1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. viii. 193 Whether Paracelsus and others deservedly call such accidents..a reall renovation or rejuvenescence.
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. i. 114 If this could be..effected, the Cure would be a true Rejuvenescence.
1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 281 The works of Chaucer, upon which this kind of rejuvenescence has been bestowed by Dryden, require little criticism.
1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 35 426 To restore the circulation of our earlier classics produces, by infusion, a rejuvenescence of the language.
1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxxvi. 641 The Greek and Roman races were..morally exhausted. They had lost..all power of intellectual rejuvenescence.
1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality xii. 309 The effect gained, either by ‘attempts at rejuvenescence’ or by transplanting a testicle, is transitory.
2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do i. 42 The chromosomes..undergo a kind of ‘rejuvenescence’ during gametogenesis, which serves to wipe the slate clean of historical experience.
2. Biology. The reactivation of vegetative cells, resulting in cell division and (in multicellular organisms) regrowth from old or injured parts; the regrowth itself. Also spec.: the reversal of the process of senescence supposed to result when a single-celled organism undergoes conjugation (now chiefly historical).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > others
adosculation1682
autogeny?1818
gemmation1836
parthenogenesis1849
virgin production1849
rejuvenescence1853
agamogenesis1857
monogeny1857
autogenesis1858
homogenesis1858
proliferation1864
monogenesis1866
swarming1867
paedogenesis1870
monogony1873
virginal generation1879
division1880
monogenesy1890
parthenogeny1890
anisogamy1891
isogamy1891
paragamy1891
separation1891
paedogenesis1892
parthenism1892
heterogamy1894
thelytoky1895
flagellation1898
cytogamy1899
pseudogamy1900
tychoparthenogenesis1900
syngamy1904
pseudogamy1907
ectogenesis1909
paedogamy1910
apomixis1913
progenesis1934
agamospermy1939
mixis1944
somatogamy1949
decapitation-
1853 A. Henfrey tr. A. Braun (title) Reflections on the phenomenon of rejuvenescence [Ger. Verjüngung] in nature.
1854 J. D. Hooker Let. 25 Aug. in C. Darwin Corr. (1989) V. 206 I have just read Braun upon Rejuvenescence & am glad to hear what you think of it!
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. p. ix It results in a simple ‘rejuvenescence’ of the conjugating individuals.
1925 Amer. Naturalist 59 235 He found that so-called rejuvenescence occurs only after exogamous or endogamous conjugation, but only in a small percentage of cases.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iii. 46 When the amoeba is once more moist.., the living matter becomes active again...This renewal is called rejuvenescence.
1988 Magnesium Res. 1 177 (title) Effect of magnesium on juvenility and rejuvenescence of plant cells, and its possible mechanism.
1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) v. 113/1 These [small buds] probably result from a late rejuvenescence of a coral which almost died, from small areas of still living tissue.
2008 G. H. Beale & J. R. Preer Paramecium i. 2 Their work was concerned with the significance of forms of life consisting of single cells..and the supposed immortality and rejuvenescence of such cells.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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