trituratev.
/ˈtrɪtjʊəreɪt/ transitive. To reduce to fine particles or powder by rubbing, bruising, pounding, crushing, or grinding; to comminute, pulverize; also, to mix (solids, or a solid and a liquid) in this way.
a. Pharmacology, Geology, etc.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > form into grains or granules [verb (transitive)] > make into powder or dust
powdera1400
pulverize?a1425
pulverc1425
dustc1440
pulverizate1598
rub1607
pulverate1615
triturate1755
triture1773
powderize1903
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii To thresh corne, triturate.]
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Triturable..(from triturate).
1771 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. (1777) I. 60 The mixture was well triturated in a marble mortar.
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 224 Sometimes brittle, sometimes tough according to the proportion of Mercury principally when triturated.
1801 W. Henry Epitome Chem. i. xxvi. 107 Tin may be brought to combine with the oxygenated muriatic acid by first forming it into amalgam with mercury. Triturating this with an equal weight of oxygenated muriate of mercury [etc.].
1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. §51. 49 Rock made from shells..triturated into a calcareous earth by the sea.
b. Physiology said of the action of the molar teeth, the gizzard, etc. upon the food.
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1822 [see triturating adj. at Derivatives].
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 311/1 It [the food] is triturated..by the mandibles certainly [in Parrots].
1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 269 By the act of mastication..the food is triturated and mingled with the salivary secretion.
1881 C. Darwin Form. Veg. Mould 81 Worms swallow many little stones,..it is probable that they serve, like mill-stones, to triturate their food.
c. figurative.
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1853 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Last Fruit 29 At first we were tickled, at last we were triturated.
1881 Scribner's Monthly Aug. 542 The raw ingredients of our national admixture are supplied quite as rapidly as the whirl and stir of the popular system can triturate and commingle them.
Derivatives
ˈtriturated adj.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [adjective] > powdery or dusty > made powdery
pulverizate?a1425
powdered1535
triturated1777
alcoholized1863
1777 W. Anderson Jrnl. 11 July in J. Cook Jrnls. (1967) III. ii. 922 Where the shore is low the soil is commonly sandy or rather composd of triturated coral.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 508 The triturated barley grain First duly sprinkling.
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xix. 439 Gorges..through which the whole vast amount of triturated matter must have been carried away.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxxv. 547 Three or four ten- to thirty-grain doses of well triturated thymol in cachets.
ˈtriturating adj.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > grinding or pounding > [adjective]
pestling1616
comminuting1776
triturating1822
molar1844
pounding1894
tritural1901
1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 312 In this [fossil elephant's] tooth..there are only thirteen plates, nine..of which are seen on the triturating surface.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 318/2 The triturating action of the gizzard.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) §41 The abrading, triturating power of water.
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