单词 | stratum super stratum |
释义 | † stratum super stratumadv.n. Obsolete. A. adv. In successive layers; layer by layer, layer upon layer. ΚΠ ?1583 J. Hester tr. Paracelsus et al. Hundred & Fouretene Exper. & Cures sig. C6 Melt the Golde againe and make it in plates and lay it Stratum Superstratum as ye did afore. 1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour xxxv. 107 Making a dung-hill, and laying stratum super stratum, a laying of street-earth, and a laying of these turves, laying upon laying, till they be rotten, makes an excellent compost for many years. 1703 J. Keill Anat. Humane Body (ed. 2) 182 These two sorts of Fibres lie Stratum super Stratum, from the tip of the Tongue to its basis. 1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades 17 Put your iron stratum super stratum in a decensorium. 1825 S. A. Mackey New Theory Earth 69 Matter may have accumulated on the surface, and as often subsided, in those parts where we find the sea and land productions stratum super stratum. 1859 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 29 Apr. 417/2 The coke and ore are supplied stratum super stratum. B. n. The process of forming successive layers; stratification; (also) a series of successive layers. ΚΠ 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 348 Stratification, or stratum superstratum well knowne to Chymists, and vsed in cementation, is strewing of corroding powder, or the like, vpon plates of mettall by course. 1699 tr. H. de Blancourt Art of Glass xx. 68 Put them in a Crucible Layer over Layer, or first one Layer of Sulphur, then one of Filings, and so on, beginning and ending with the Sulphur; which is called Stratification, or Stratum super Stratum. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness p. xxii The Leven..making for itself a deep channel, in some places discovers stratum super stratum of marle and soil. 1816 J. Middleton in Monthly Mag. 1 Nov. 291/1 The strata of this planet have been examined from the surface downwards to the depth of about two miles, and the whole of that depth consists of stratum super stratum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adv.n.?1583 |
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