单词 | unctuous |
释义 | unctuousadj. 1. a. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; oily, greasy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] unctuousa1387 ointuosea1400 unctuosec1400 unctious1477 unguinous1601 unguentous1684 salvy1861 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 113 Þe fruit of olyue is ful of liȝt, likynge, and vnctuous. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. b ij b The vnctuous fleme whiche is engendred by mynglynge, of vnctuous bloud and fleme. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 262 Gummes..and other vnctuous frutes and trees growing in hotte regions. 1604 F. Herring Modest Def. Caueat 22 Sallet oile, butter, or any other vnctuous things. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 202 As if all the unctuous parts that were wanting in the dried portion of the cheese had retired thither. 1734 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 64 When this Operation succeeds rightly, there comes forth, First, a thick unctuous Oil. 1818 Art of preserving Feet 105 The unctuous matter which exudes from excretory vessels. 1875 C. C. Blake Zoology 152 The poison itself is an unctuous gelatinous fluid. b. Of meat: Greasy, fat, rich. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > [adjective] likingeOE goodOE lickerousc1275 deliciousa1325 daintya1382 dainteousc1386 daintiful1393 delicatea1398 merrya1398 savourlyc1400 liciousc1420 savourousa1425 daintethc1430 lustyc1430 feelsomea1450 nuttya1450 seasonablea1475 delicativec1475 unctuous1495 well-tasteda1500 daintive1526 savoury1533 exquisite1561 spicy1562 well-relished?1575 finger-licking1584 toothsome1584 taste-pleasinga1586 daint1590 relishsome1593 lickerish1595 tastesome1598 friand1599 tooth-tempting1603 relishing1605 well-relishing1608 neat1609 hungry1611 palate-pleasing1611 tasteful1611 palatea1617 tastya1617 palatable1619 toothful1622 sipid1623 unsoured1626 famelic1631 tasteablea1641 piquant1645 sapid1646 saporousa1670 slape1671 palativea1682 flavorous1697 nice1709 well-flavoured1717 gusty1721 flavoury1727 fine-palated1735 unrepulsive1787 degustatory1824 zesty1826 peckish1845 mouth-watering1847 flavoursome1853 unreasty1853 unrancida1855 relishy1864 toothy1864 flavoured1867 tasty-looking1867 hungrifying1886 velvety1888 snappy1892 zippy1911 savoursome1922 delish1953 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > fat unctuous1495 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xix. xlv. 888 Vnctuous meete fletyth aboue for the lyghtnesse therof. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 18 b Meates..fatte and vnctuous, nourisheth, and maketh soluble. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. iii. f. 100 When their fingers are imbrued with any ounctuous meates. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. ii. sig. D3 The swelling vnctuous papps Of a fat pregnant Sow. View more context for this quotation 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 241 They feed upon unctuous and sweet meats. 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 471/2 Those unctuous morsels of deer's flesh. c. Characterized by the presence of oil or fat. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > characterized by presence of oil or fat unctuous1641 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 84 Warming their Palace Kitchins, and from thence their unctuous, and epicurean paunches, with the almes of the blind. 1776 [see unctuous sucker n. at sense 1d]. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 664 Pallas rear'd him: her own unctuous fane She made his habitation. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) iv. 40 There was something in the sound of the last word, which roused the unctuous boy. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 141 English day-laborers..are of an unctuous texture. d. unctuous sucker n. (see quot. 1776). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Cyclopteridae (lump-fishes) > member of genus Liparis (sea-snail) sea-snail1686 burgau1753 sucker1753 suck-fish1753 unctuous sucker1776 Montagu's sucker1812 Montagu's sea snail1835 Montagu's sucking fish1836 snail-fish1840 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iv. 135 Unctuous Sucker..this fish takes the name of sea snail from the soft and unctuous texture of its body, resembling that of the land snail. 2. Of ground or soil: Of a soft adhesive nature; fat, rich. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > soft or yielding rotten?1440 mellow1531 sour1532 unctuous1555 heavy1577 omy1673 mellowed1798 sinky1828 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 196 As fat and vnctuous groundes..yelde a fast & firme moysture. 1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 30 Good and excellent Earth should be..not too unctuous nor too lean. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. ii. ii. 18 Some [soils] are Unctuous and Sticking together. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 68 A soft unctuous Chalk, which is the best for Lands. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) I. 474 Their hunger is so great as compels them to eat..a kind of unctuous earth. 1815 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. (ed. 2) xii. 297 When the matrix, or the substance which principally fills veins, is a soft unctuous clay. 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. 435 A layer of unctuous shale or fuller's earth. 1867 D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 293 There are farms I know, unctuous with an accumulated fertility. 3. Of vapours, etc.: Partaking of the nature of oil or grease. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > specifically of vapours unctuous1606 1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. D3v For Shepheards fayne..That from Bodyes buried in Summer season, An vnctuos vapour, hot and dry, doth rise. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. Ev A humide exhalation, which we call Materia liquida, or the Vnctuous Water. View more context for this quotation 1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 116 (note) in Poems Lambent fire is, A thin unctuous Exhalation made out of the Spirits of Animals. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation iv. 170 Evening Trains of unctuous Vapours. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 390 Falling stars, which are thought to be no more than unctuous vapours, raised from the earth to small heights. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. Introd. 19 Unctuous or inflammable gas. 1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 170 Unctuous meteors from spray to spray..flitted in broad noon-day Unseen. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xviii. 187 And an unctuous steam came floating out. 4. Having an oily or greasy feel or appearance. Also of feel, touch, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > of feel or appearance unctuous1668 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 82 Being of an unctuous touch, and used for Sallets. 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 44 But it is not at all unctuous to the touch. 1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (ed. 2) II. 9 Pubescence mealy, friable, and unctuous. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 131 Excellently carved in oak, now black with time and unctuous with kitchen-smoke. 1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 17 To the touch the skin has a soft, smooth, somewhat unctuous feel. 5. Characterized by spiritual unction (in later use esp. of an assumed or superficial nature); complacently agreeable or self-satisfied: a. Of persons. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > [adjective] GodfrightOE goodOE ghostlyOE Godfrightya1225 seelya1225 devout?c1225 piteousc1300 spiritualc1384 graciousa1387 godlyc1390 pitifulc1449 inwardc1450 piousc1450 evangelica1475 servantly1503 obedientiala1513 Christian1526 well-believing1529 God-fearing1548 resigneda1555 heavenly minded1569 timorate1570 Godfull1593 pious1595 fearful1597 devoutful1598 devotea1625 serious1684 unctuous1742 theopathetic1749 fire-spirited1845 theopathic1846 unctional1849 interior1854 devotionate1864 sacramental1874 pi1891 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [adjective] pope-holya1387 Pharisaical1527 as holy (also as sick, as strong) as a horse1530 hypocritish1531 hypocritic1540 hypocritely1541 hypocritical1553 horse-holy?1589 sanctified1604 Pharisee-like1611 sanctimoniousa1616 Pharisaica1618 lip-holy1624 Bible-bearing1625 canting1663 unctuous1742 pietistical1753 pietical1782 goody-goody1785 goody1808 Sunday school1817 Pecksniffian1844 goodyish1848 goody-good1851 devil-dodging?1861 pietic1865 mawwormish1883 pietistic1884 mawwormy1885 pi1891 pietose1893 holier-than-thou1912 antimacassar1913 holy1958 1742 G. Cheyne Let. 22 Aug. in J. Byrom Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1857) II. ii. 331 I think him..more plain,..luminous, and unctuous, than any I ever met with. 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 292/2 Bland, unctuous, and rosy as they appear, they are nevertheless excessively fastidious. 1882 J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne II. 138 A Quaker could not be drawn without being caricatured into an unctuous rogue. 1896 ‘I. Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie 171 A certain class of smug, self-contented, unctuous men. b. Of speech, conduct, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > complacency > [adjective] fat1598 self-contented1631 self-pleased1633 self-satisfied1653 self-contenta1656 complacing1669 self-complacentiala1711 self-complacinga1711 self-complacent1736 complacent1767 pinguid1768 unctuous1822 paddy1865 1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 408/2 It was a pleasure to see the sable younkers lick in the unctuous meat, with his more unctuous sayings. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 27 Laying an unctuous emphasis upon the words. 1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 217 In the corrupt and unctuous forms of a mechanical religious profession. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1387 |
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