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单词 resupination
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resupinationn.

Brit. /ˌriːs(j)uːpᵻˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrisupəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin resupination-, resupinatio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin resupination-, resupinatio fact of lying, or action of lying down, on the back (9th cent. in figurative use, of those who are over proud), inversion of a part of a plant ( Linnaeus Philosophia botanica (1751) iv. 104) < classical Latin resupīnāt- , past participial stem of resupīnāre (see resupinate adj.) + -iō -ion suffix1. With sense 2b compare resupinated adj. Compare later resupine adj. and resupinate adj. Compare also later supination n.Although Vitruvius describes the effect of height upon the proportions of a standing figure (see quot. 1624 at sense 1), he does not use the word resupinatio but rather classical Latin resupīnātus resupinate adj.
1. Art and Architecture. The effect of height on the proportions of a standing figure. Obsolete.
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.
2.
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).
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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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