单词 | salving |
释义 | salvingn.1 The action of anointing with salve (literal and figurative); healing as if with salve, soothing. †Also semi-concrete, a healing application. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > [noun] > salving or anointing smearingc1000 salvinga1300 anointing1357 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > ointment salvea700 balsamumc885 smerlesa1000 balmc1220 salvinga1300 ointmentc1300 unguenty1721 magma1749 rub1867 a1300 Cursor Mundi 29020 Saluing þat es for þe fot es noght for mans heued bote. c1440 York Myst. x. 334 Harke sone! sum saluyng of our sare. 1584 G. Whetstone Mirour for Magestrates f. 24 For the saluynge of which, and all other Infirmyties, of the commonwealth, her Godly wisdome..established many Medicinable Lawes. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xii. 203 Hauing recourse..to searing, cutting, launcing, and sawing for euery sore. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 330 Some waters are better..for..washing, brewing, salving, boyling of meat. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1154 On the approach of winter, they are..brought home in order to undergo the operation of smearing or salving. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands vii. 183 Though a Moslem he drinks wine, but says aloud for the salving of his conscience, ‘It is only sugar and water’. 1887 Athenæum 3 Dec. 745/1 There is no commonplace salving of her wounds by the provision of an earl or a viscount in the third volume. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2019). † salvingn.2 Obsolete. In senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > specifically an immaterial thing salving1575 the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > hypothesis > [noun] > forming of put-case1565 salving1575 case-putting1645 hypothetic1890 1575 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 369 Therwth a salving allwaies of ye libertie of ye Cittie. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. Nv Now therefore Lady, rise out of your paine, And see the saluing of your blotting name. 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxvii. 333 But how little soever some Bodies may be; yet I will not suppose their quantity to be less, then is requisite for the salving of the Phænomena. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. *v Epicurus..did by violence introduce Liberty of Will, into his Hypothesis; for the Salving whereof, he ridiculously devized, That his Third Motion of Atoms. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2019). salvingadj. Healing as with salve, soothing. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective] medicinala1384 wholesomea1387 healinga1398 medicinablea1398 restorativea1398 sanative14.. curatory?a1425 remediable1437 mildlya1475 curable1483 recurablea1500 curative1525 eradicative1543 good1580 physical1580 medicable1590 sanable1598 balsamic1605 therapeutical1606 medicinary1607 medicative1644 medical1646 therapeutic1646 salutary1649 salvative1653 boethetic1656 medicamentary1656 recuperatory1656 sanitating1656 medicamental1657 medicamentous1659 medicating1705 balmy1747 salving1751 sanatorya1832 salubrious1855 medicatory1864 recuperative1872 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. xli. 217 This was what I returned, with warmth, and with a salving Art too. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2018). > as lemmasˈsalving ˈsalving n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [adjective] > relating to salvage wrecking1804 salving1869 1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Oct. 7/2 The wreck lying in a favourable position for salving operations. 1884 Law Rep.: Probate Div. 9 203 The salving vessel is often herself exposed to imminent peril. < n.1a1300n.21575adj.1751 as lemmas |
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