| 单词 |
humectate |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † huˈmectate, ppl. a. Obs. [ad. L. hūmectāt-us, pa. pple. of hūmectāre.] Moistened, wetted.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 267 The white neckes schalle be humectate or made weiete with golde. ▪ II. humectate, v. Now rare.|hjuːˈmɛkteɪt| [f. L. hūmectāt-, ppl. stem of hūmectāre to humect.] = humect 1. Hence huˈmectating ppl. a.
1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 13 Divided into sluces, to humectat the bordering soyle. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies I. xxxv. (1645) 370 When we eate, nature draweth a moysture into our mouth, to humectate our meate. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Copal, A warming, resolving, and humectating power. [1855Househ. Words XII. 449 To humectate the evening breeze on the Pincian Hill.] |

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