| 单词 | sear up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sear up ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > wither shrenchc950 sear1412 to sear up1430 wither1555 sweal1881 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1494) viii. xv. D iij b The frutles trees vp seryd to the rote. 1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 97 They cut the branches euery euening, because they are seared vp in the day by the heate of the Sunne. to sear up c. to sear up: to close (a wound, vein, etc.) by actual cautery. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > cauterizing > cauterize [verb (transitive)] brandc1440 sear1482 burn1483 cauterize?1541 cauterizate1576 to sear up1602 singe1627 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 41 [The Jesuits] haue bespattered with a most dangerous Gangrene, the whole bodie misticall of Christ (which vnlesse it be seared vp with hot irons here in England, wil neuer come at Rome to be soundly cured). 1631 B. Jonson New Inne ii. i. 21 The rogue deserues..To be crop'd with his owne Scizzers..And ha' the stumps sear'd vp with his owne searing candle. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 144 The Vein of Rhetorick was seared up. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 441 Then for the worm of conscience,..they have seared up his mouth with a hot iron that he cannot bite. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 382 The political system of Hobbes, like his moral system,..sears up the heart. < as lemmas |
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