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palingenesy (medicine) and wave(2) (iou)


palingenesy (medicine)


palingenesy


1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

2. <biology> That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

See Genesis.

Origin: Gr.; again + birth: cf. F. Palingenesie.


wave(2) (iou)



wave verb1.
[Old English wafian (corresp. to Middle High German waben), reinforced in Middle English by Old Norse veifa (see WEAVE verb2), from Germanic, partly from Germanic base also of WAVER verb; in branch III directly from the noun. See also WAFF verb1.]
I. Of voluntary movement.
verb intrans. Make a movement to and fro with the hands. Only in OE.
verb trans. Move (a thing) to and fro or from side to side; spec. (a) move (one's hand, arm, etc., or something held in the hand) through the air with a sweeping gesture, often up or down or from side to side as a sign of greeting or farewell; (b) brandish (a weapon); (c) (in the Levitical ritual) raise and move from side to side (an offering) before the altar. ME. OE.
G. Vidal She waved her hands in the air to dry the lacquer. R. Fuller She waved her stick in greeting. fig.: J. G. Wood Where the corn waves its yellow ears.
b. verb intrans. (Of the hand, arm, etc., or something held in the hand) be moved to and fro; (of a weapon) be brandished. E17.
Day Lewis His arms waved like signals of distress.
Chiefly Nautical.
a. verb intrans. Make a signalling motion with one's uplifted hands or with something held in one's hands. E16-M17.
b. verb trans. Signal to (a person). M16-E17.
a. verb trans. & (rare) intrans. Move (the wings) up and down in or as in flight. M16-E19.
b. verb intrans. Move the body from side to side. Only in 17.
c. verb trans. Move (one's head) up and down; incline (one's head). E17-M18.
a. verb trans. Signify (something) by a wave of the hand or arm. (Foll. by at or to a person.) E19.
waving base an observation terrace at an airport from which the public may watch the aircraft and wave to the travellers.
A. Seton Katherine..waved goodbye until the..horses faded from sight.
b. verb intrans. Give a wave of the hand or arm (at or to a person or thing). E19.
K. Amis Nash politely waved me out of the room. fig.: Economist Other much more dubious..takeovers were waved through.
c. verb trans. Motion (a person etc.) away, in, over, to do something, etc., by a movement of the hand. M19.
II. Of involuntary movement.
a. verb intrans. Of a thing: move to and fro; shake or sway by the action of the wind. ME.
b. verb intrans. Of long hair: hang down loose. poet. L17.
verb intrans.
a. Move to and fro restlessly or unsteadily; waver, totter. LME-M17.
b. Of a floating body: move restlessly by the impulse of the air or water. E17-E18.
verb intrans.Wander, stray, (of a person, the mind, etc.) alternate between different opinions or courses of action; vacillate, waver. LME-L18.
verb intrans.
a. (Of water, the sea) move in waves; (of a field of corn etc.) undulate like the waves of the sea. M16.
b. Of a crowd: move to and fro restlessly in a body. L16.
verb trans. Of the wind etc.: cause (a thing) to sway or move to and fro. E17.
III.
verb trans. Ornament with an undulating design; make wavy in form or outline. M16.
Hair The hair has been softly waved.
verb intrans. Undulate in form or outline. L18.
With adverbs in specialized senses: wave aside dismiss as intrusive or irrelevant. wave down wave to (a vehicle or its driver) as a signal to stop.
wavingly adverb in the manner of a wave or waves M18.