| 单词 |
indigitation |
| 释义 |
indigitation|ɪndɪdʒɪˈteɪʃən|
[n. of action from L. indigitā-re to indigitate: see -ation.]
†1. The action of pointing out or indicating; an indication, demonstration; a declaration. Obs.
1644Bulwer Chirol. 163 The naturall validity of this indigitation of persons. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. vii. (1662) 59 Which things I conceive no obscure Indigitation of Providence. 1658Phillips, Indigitation, a pointing at, or shewing with the finger. 1689S. Willard in Andros Tracts I. 189 This [taking of an oath upon the Bible] must of necessity be more than the bare Indigitation of the Person, and nothing less than a Religious Application. 1706Phillips, Indigitation, an indigitating, or shewing; a convincing Proof, or plain Demonstration.
2. Computing or conversing by the fingers.
1826Southey Vind. Eccl. Angl. 77 He wrote also upon indigitation, both as an art of computing by the fingers, and of conversing by them.
3. Anat. Interlocking of the fingers of two hands; hence, the mode of junction of muscle and tendon.
1846T. Callaway Disloc. & Fractures (1849) 33 The Serratus magnus..takes its rise by nine indigitations from the eight superior ribs. 1851E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. 217 To show the muscles beneath without interfering with its indigitations with the serratus magnus. |
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