单词 | aestuant |
释义 | aestuantadj. rare. Boiling; boiling hot. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > very wall-hotc1000 walm-hotOE hot as hellOE welling?a1200 welling hota1400 aestuant?1440 burning1484 scalding?a1513 broiling1555 roasting1567 walming hot1601 boiling hot1607 baking1656 stewing-hot1711 piping1823 grilling1839 seething1848 white-hot1855 stewing1856 incandescent1859 swithering1895 boiling1930 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. l. 434 (MED) Leef a litel hole out at to brethe, Their hetes estuant forto alethe. 1533 H. Man in M. A. E. Wood Lett. Royal & Illustrious Ladies (1846) II. 97 And that I may so set my desire, my delectation, my estuant affection, and my fervent love in God. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 10) 748 Not that every tickling should draw us to marrying; but a Burning, an æstuant flame. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. iii. 451 Then let them say that ♂ or ♃ makes no heat on those Æstuant days, and let them prove it, because the Sun makes none when it comes into the same Sign. 1913 ‘W. C. Leith’ Sirenica 18 The song of the Sirens. Sirens wont to sing, when the ship passed with glistening oars, and the ear of a hero was open to the song? Things fathomless, things aestuant; things lost in the vast perplexities of light. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.?1440 |
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