单词 | subsult |
释义 | † subsultv. Obsolete. intransitive. To leap or jump about. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > jump up and down subsult1623 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Subsult, to leape, to iumpe. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Subsult, to leap or hop under or about. 1706 tr. C. J. Sprengell in tr. M. G. Purmann Chirurgia Curiosa iii. xvi. 320 There is a stupendious artificial Structure, so neatly compacted together, that from the most minute Impulses, the whole subsults in a perpetual Circle. 1833 J. Atkinson Med. Bibliogr. (1834) 143 So the soul..like electricity, nestles and tickles, subsults and laughs in our limbs and features. Derivatives subsulting adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > jumping up and down subsulting1670 stotting1850 1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1084 In those Earth-quakes..a subsulting perpendicular motion. 1679 J. Locke in H. R. F. Bourne Life J. Locke (1876) I. 449 I found a subsulting, something like the strokes of a pulse. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 145 Our rough and subsalient or subsulting Style of our uncouth Phraseological Latin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < v.1623 |
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