英语词汇“succumbent”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

succumbent

释义

† suˈccumbent, a. (n.) Obs. rare.
[ad. L. succumbens, -entem, pr. pple. of succumbĕre to succumb. In sense 1 after It. soccombente.]
A. adj.
1. Subject, submissive to.
c1645Howell Lett. ii. ix. (1890) 387 Christianity..makes not Sense so much subject to Reason, as Reason succumbent to Faith.1660― Parly of Beasts 2 Queen Morphandra..useth to make Nature her self not only succumbent and passive to her desires, but [etc.].
2. Underlying.
1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 114 Water, by its weight onely, and no innate Elatery, did depel the Succumbent Quicksilver in the Tube.
3. Succumbing.
1812J. J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 81 The humanity of Morgan and Humphreys, towards a succumbent foe.
B. n. (See quot. 1661 and kneeler 2 a.)
1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Succumbents,..antiently it signified those penitents or excommunicate persons that fell down on their knees and prayed in a certain place behind the Quire or Pulpit. [1850Neale Hist. East. Ch. Introd. I. i. 210 The Succumbentes were passing the silver gates on their way out.]

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