demersionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /diˈmɜː(ɹ)ʒən/

名詞

demersion (usually uncountable, 複数形 demersions)

1. The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
2. The state of being overwhelmed in, or as if in, water.
   • 1692, John Ray, “The First Question Concerning the World’s Dissolution, Whether there be Any Thing in Nature that may Probably Cause or Argue a Future Dissolution? Three Probable Means propounded and Discussed.”, in Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], OCLC 1170228407, page 360:

     [T]his Sinking and Demerſion of Buildings into the Earth is a manifeſt Sign of their Antiquity, vvhich is ſo much the greater, by hovv much the deeper they are ſunk.