nervoseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

nervose (not comparable)

1. (botany) nerved; having prominent veins.
   • 1879, Volney Rattan, A Popular California Flora, page 91:

     A foot or more high, leaves oblong-lanceolate, the upper usually ovate-lanceolate and sessile by a nervose veined base; pedicels shorter than the acute lobes of the calyx ; the lower lip or the corolla violet or rose-purple and the upper paler to nearly white; the saccate throat very oblique to the true tube, fully as broad as long; gland short.

2. For or pertaining to the nerves.
   • 1758, Pugh, “A remarkable case in midwifry”, in The critical review, or annals of literature volume=5, page 68:

     I ordered an injection to be thrown up three or four times a day, and she took a nervose mixture with tinct. valer. and castor, which method fhe continued till the 22d of December.

   • 1847, Lorenz Oken, Elements of Physiophilosophy - Volume 10, page 463:

     It belongs only to a higher grade of perfection, or to a nervose condition of the digestive process, to perceive the rationale of the decomposition, or the spiritual conflict, which prevails between the matters, when they are about to separate.

   • 1877 August, 'An individualist', “Food and Growth: a Rhapsody”, in Cope's Tobacco Plant, volume 2, number 89, page 64:

     It is curious that the gluttons and the hucksters, who sell adulterated goods by day and cant the most leprous cant in the evening, should affect to abhor and despise and shun the consumers of nervose aliments as inferior animals, when it is themselves, the insatiable devourers of beef and pudding and hideous hypocritical slang, who are the inferor animals.

   • 1914, John Anderson Richardson, Richardson's Defense of the South, page 474:

     In 1859 Moreau laid down the principle, based upon a number of rather doubtful examples, that genius was essentially a nervose, or nerve, affection, his contention being that originality of thought and quickness or preponderance of intellectual faculties were originally much the same thing as madness and idiocy.

派生語

• subnervose

アナグラム

• Everson, on serve

参照

• “nervose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nervose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nervose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.