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单词 suppedaneous
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suppedaneousadj.

Brit. /ˌsʌpᵻˈdeɪnɪəs/, U.S. /ˈˌsəpəˈˌdeɪniəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin suppedaneus , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin suppedaneus placed under the feet (6th cent. or earlier; compare suppedaneum n.), sitting at someone's feet, very humble (a1535; < classical Latin sup- sub- prefix + ped- , pēs foot (see -ped comb. form) + -āneus : see -aneous suffix) + -ous suffix. In sense (b) after French suppédané , adjective (1899 or earlier in medicine: compare quot. 18991). Compare suppedaneum n. and also subpedaneous adj.
Now rare.
(a) Placed under or supporting the feet; of the nature of a footstool, pedestal, or other support; situated at the foot or base; also figurative. (b) Relating to the sole of the foot.Chiefly in or taken from dictionaries, and in later use sometimes merely as a representative of obfuscation in vocabulary.
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the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > situated or placed under
underlaida1100
subjected?a1425
suppositivec1475
subject?1541
subjacent1598
subterjacent1598
underlying1611
subjunct1639
supposite1640
suppedaneous1646
subordinate1648
subdititious1657
substrated1663
succumbent1664
subtended1670
substrate1678
subadjacent1722
supposed1766
subtending1777
substrative1823
underset1845
infraposed1854
substant1883
underneath1894
underlappingc1900
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xiii. 254 He had slender legs, but encreased them by riding after meales; that is, the humours descending upon their pendulosity, they having no support or suppedaneous stability. View more context for this quotation
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Suppedaneous, belonging to a foot-stool, or anything that is set under the feet.
1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 263 Seeing it is suppedaneous, the Pedestal to support nobler truths.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo viii, in Wks. (1721) III. 240 Hymnotheo..Strait to a suppedaneous Mountain went.
1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. II Suppedaneous, placed under the feet.
1804 C. L. Lewes Comic Sketches 56 Down drops the hero of the day with a dislocated neck and broken bones: he instantly becomes suppedaneous, and, although he shall to day be in the state of sublimation, he shall be to-morrow in that of conculcation.
1835 D. P. Thompson Adventures Timothy Peacock xvi. 174 Let us..promenade back through the mysterious ages of ancestry and exaggerate a short biography of its radient progress from its suppedaneous commencement.
1899 H. de Méric Dictionnaire des Termes de Médecine II. 215/1 Suppédané, -ée, suppedaneous; pertaining to the sole of the foot.
1899 S. Crane in Harper's New Monthly Mag. 99 761/1 His face was set in a truer expression of horror than any of the romances describe upon the features of a man flung into a moat,..a man cleft in the neck with a battle-axe. He was suppedaneous of the fullest power of childish pain.
1906 St. Louis Med. Rev. 14 Apr. 314/2 With this he made a suppedaneous application to the man's pygidium which..landed its recipient on the pavement below with a descendent anfractuosity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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