单词 | resupination |
释义 | resupinationn.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > perspective > [noun] > effects of foreshortening1606 resupination1624 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 105 Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the Eye, a resupination of the Figure: For which word (being in truth his owne, for ought I know) wee are almost as much beholding to him, as for the obseruation it selfe. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 233 Phidias..did consider that the whole shape of his image should change according to the height of the appointed place, and therefore made her lips wide open..and all the rest accordingly, by a certaine kinde of resupination. 1754 J. Barrow Suppl. New & Universal Dict. at Building The visual ray, extended to the head of the figure, is longer than that reaching to its feet, which will of necessity make that part appear farther off: so that, to reduce it to an erect posture, it must be made to stoop a little forward. M. Le Clerc, however, will not allow of this resupination, but will have every part in its just perpendicular. a. The fact of lying, or action of lying down, on the back. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [noun] > supine or face up resupination1658 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Resupination, a lying along on the back with the face upward. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B5 Amongst Fishes,..Some have their mouth upwards,..and cannot take the prey, without resupination. 1678 W. Salmon tr. Pharmacopœia Londinensis ii. ii. 208/1 The Crocodile..generates by resupination, bringing forth sixty Eggs, and their Young in sixty days. b. The action of putting a part of the body, etc., into an inverted position. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > [noun] turning1536 inversion1598 reversing1610 topsy-turvy1655 resupination1661 canting1769 retroversion1790 supernaculum1827 upturning1846 upending1968 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B3v Some [birds] drink..with intermission, and resupination of the head. 1721 tr. L. Heister Compend. Anat. 57 In our Lectures upon the Radius, we animadvert upon its exterior Situation..and its Motion, which is both Pronation, or turning of the Palm of the Hand down; or Resupination, which is the turning of it up. 3. Botany. The inversion of a part of a plant, esp. the flower of an orchid. Cf. resupinate adj. 1(a). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [noun] > torsion or nutation intorsion1760 resupination1760 nutation1789 torsion1875 circumnutation1880 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xiv. 198 A Resupination; which is, when the upper Lip of the Corolla looks towards the Ground, and the under Lip towards Heaven. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 111 Seeds ascending, seldom inverted by resupination. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 604 The long inferior ovary of most Orchids undergoes a torsion (resupination) at the time of the opening of the flower. 1934 A. Arber Gramineae xiii. 292 Resupination may be seen in some of our British grasses. 1965 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 741 The inversion of the flowers [sc. of orchids] is generally effected by the twisting of the ovary.., more rarely by the twisting of the pedicel or of the flower itself; in pendulous inflorescences resupination sometimes does not occur. 1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 176 This kind of flower remained functional in erect orchids by a 180° twist of the pedicel, a process called resupination. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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