“pupilary”的英英意思

单词 pupilary
释义 I. pupillary, pupilary, a.1|ˈpjuːpɪlərɪ|
[ad. F. pupillaire (1409 in Godef.), or L. pūpillāris pupillar a.1]
a. Of or pertaining to a person in pupillarity.
b. Belonging to a pupil or scholar.
pupillary substitution (Rom. Law): nomination of a substitute to take on the death in pupillarity of an institute who had succeeded; in effect, a testament made by a father for his child living or posthumous, to take effect in the event of the latter dying under puberty and before he could make one for himself. (Muirhead Inst. Gaius, etc. 597.)
a.1611Cotgr., Pupilaire, Pupillarie, of or belonging to a Pupill.1756Nugent tr. Montesquieu's Spir. Laws I. xix. xxiv. (1878) 329 The testator..may leave the vulgar substitution..and put the pupillary into a part of the testament, which cannot be opened till after a certain time.1855Thackeray Newcomes lxv, Rosey was in a pupillary state..her duty was to obey the wishes of her dear Mamma.1880Muirhead Ulpian xxiii. §8 A parent may make a pupillary substitution even to his disinherited children.
b.1848Lowell Biglow P. Poems 1890 II. 2, I behold how those strains..bewitch the pupillary legs, nor leave to the pedagogic an entire self-control.1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. iv 56 Scholarships and exhibitions are stipends enjoyed by students in the pupillary state.
II. ˈpupillary, ˈpupilary, a.2
[f. L. pūpilla pupil n.2 + -ary: cf. prec. So mod.F. pupillaire.]
Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
1793Young in Phil. Trans. LXXXIII. 178 The lateral parts of the pupillary margin of the uvea.1807― in Med. Jrnl. XVII. 405 A brownish grey, which is of the deepest colour in the Pupilary Ring.1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 836 The pupillary diameter is subject to a considerable range of variation.

 

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