adustion

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — But if her death doe enſue thereupon, he shal render life for life, / eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote, / aduſtion for aduſtion, wound for wound, ſtripe for ſtripe.
  2. Cauterization. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — some use to apply this to the fat, but in our time it is all out of use, and seeing yet the pains of the hip do rather fall into the thighs, shins, and legs, then ascend up into the Arms and shoulders, Aetius and Cornarius say, that this adustion for the hips was used in the ancient time divers ways, and some on this manner, holding the burning dung in a pair of tongs unto the leg of that side where the pain lyeth, untill the adustion be felt in the hip, and this course used Discorides.

词形变化

adustions plural

词源

Etymology tree
Latin adustiōlbor.
English adustion
Learned borrowing from Latin adustiō.
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