10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «VENTOSITY»
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ventosity nella seguente selezione bibliografica. Libri associati con
ventosity e piccoli estratti per contestualizzare il loro uso nella letteratura.
1
A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages
Words such as "spirit" and "ventosity," originally derived from Galenic medicine,
entered common parlance. Medieval writers frequently repeated that, in order for
a sexual act to result in conception, three things had to be present: heat, spirit, ...
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot,
1994
2
The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
Several words, like ventose, ventosity, combine the ideas of stomach and wind;
for wind, see the next root, ue. E venter has had several meanings: (1) women (
first venter, second venter, etc.) with offspring from the same man; (2) any one of ...
Joseph Twadell Shipley,
2009
3
The new theory and practice of medicine, a treatise on the ...
It was proved by Dr. Hales that one apple, during fermentation, will give above six
hundred times its bulk in gas ; and some vegetable substances possess even
more ventosity than apples. Hitherto carminatives, aperients, and tonics have ...
4
Pride: A Dictionary for the Vain
ventosity vaulting (VAWL-ting) adjective: The act of leaping over something. Also,
excessive ambition, as in vaulting pride. vaunt (vawn) verb: To excessively boast
about something. The couple's endless VAUNTING at the charity function was ...
5
Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)
O —— — balmy froth —— — Caes. What's that? Cris. —— — Puffie —— —
inflate —— — turgidious —— — ventosity. Hor. Balmy, froth, puffie, inflate,
turgidous, and ventosity are come up. Tib. words. Gal. Oterrible Asignofa windy
windy brain.
CD. has not this adjective, but has the obs. noun ventosity, ascribed to Bacon,
Adv. of L. 1. In the quarto we find ventosity and not ventositous; so I incline to
believe that the adjective was trumped up for this occasion, especially as I do not
find it ...
Ben Jonson, Herbert Samuel Mallory,
1616
7
A Malabar and English dictionary, by the English ...
tfXirrgjLD , a hypochondriacat humor in the body, ventosity in the body, a cold or
insensiblencss in one or other part of the body, rhumatism . sxi T8>r'fT LO , •^
T85rwGs5rr*rol"UO-t*5» * £0 & rf T LO , a body full of ventefity or melancnoltick ...
Johann Philipp Fabricius, John Christian Breithaupt,
1779
8
The surgery of Theodoric: ca. A.D. 1267
And you should know that the more humid the bodies of the patients are, the
more easily will their hernias be healed. Sometimes the protuberances arise from
ventosity alone, or from relaxation alone without any dehiscence. The signs of ...
Teodorico (dei Borgognoni),
1960
9
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
vent (in hunting); ventail; ventilate, ventilation, ventilator; ventose, ventosity.—cf
the sep AIR, xerMA—and WEATHER. 1. Wind, fast-moving air, OE wind, is akin to
OFris (and OS) wind, OHG-MHG wint, G Wind, Go winds, MD went, wint, D wind,
...
10
Lund Studies in English
... essay, commiserate; — because the sense used has ridiculous associations
with a dominant sense — defunct, ramp; — or wakens an obscene echo - —
incubus, ventosity, conceive, enjoy, prorump. — It may be condemned simply
because ...