“macilent”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

macilent

释义

macilent, a. Now rare.|ˈmæsɪlənt|
Also 6 macilente.
[ad. L. macilent-us lean.]
Lean, shrivelled, thin; a. in material sense.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) II. 512 With sic abundance of exceidand sweit, His cumlie cors..lene wes maid, and macilent.1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 181 If they [goats] be fat, they are lesse venereous then being macilent or lean.1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. clxxvi. 747 Other Significators represent a body somewhat dry, macilent, erect and straight.1683W. Harris Pharmacologia xiv. 260 By reason of the exanguious macilent condition of the Junctures after Feavers.1755in Johnson.1865Reader 28 Jan. 93/2 George I. seated at supper with the tall, macilent, and ill-favoured Duchess of Kendal standing bolt upright behind him.1871M. Collins Inn Strange Meetings 4 Not Mephistophiles is macilenter Than the man.
b. fig. Of verses: Jejune, poor.
1624Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 252 That jejune and macilent conceit of Zwinglius.1658J. R. tr. Mouffet's Theat. Insects 898 Balm: concerning which Macer sang these macilent verses.1702J. Howe Liv. Temple ii. xi. Wks. 1724 I. 240 So copious an effusion of the Holy Spirit, as will..make it spring up, out of its macilent wither'd State, into its primitive Liveliness and Beauty.

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