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▪ I. piscine, n.|ˈpɪsɪn, pɪˈsiːn|
Also 4–5 -ene.
[a. OF., F. piscine fishpond, bathing-pool, piscina, ad. L. piscīna: see prec.]
1. A natural or artificial reservoir for water; a pool, pond; a bathing-pool; = piscina 1. Obs. from 16th till late in the 19th c.
(In early use often applied to the piscina probatica or Pool of Bethesda, and Pool of Siloam.)
a1300Cursor M. 13761 (Cott.) A water..Þat es cald piscene [v.r. piscine] in þair lede. c1420Lydg. Commend. Our Lady 134 Thou misty arke, probatik piscyne. 1430–40― Bochas viii. xii. (1554) 183 b, His fleshe renued and sodeinly made white By thrise washing in the freshe piscine. Ibid. viii. xiii. (1558) 7 He was counsayled to make a great pyscyne With innocent blud of children yt wer pure. 1481Caxton Godeffroy clxxii. 254 Fro the fontaynes without cam grete haboundaunce by conduytes, whiche descended in to ij pyscynes right grete by the temple, that one endureth yet in to this day and is named probatica piscina. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 38 Which condites serve all the Citee.., and fyll all the pyscynes. 1894Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 2/1 Cured, according to current report, by bathing her foot in the piscine [at Lourdes]. 1894J. R. Gasquet in Dublin Rev. Oct. 350 A few..came to ask if they might safely bathe in the piscines.
2. = piscina 2. rare.
1489Caxton Doctr. Sapience lxiv. (Windsor Cas. Copy), Yf to fore the consecracion a flye or loppe..were founde in the chalyce, it ought to be caste in to the piscine and the chalyce ought to be wasshen. Ibid., The asshes & the wasshyng of the beeste to be put into the pyscyne. 1822Nares, Piscine or Piscina. 1883Antiquary VIII. 211 There is another piscine in the south wall of the church.
▪ II. piscine, a.|ˈpɪsaɪn|
[f. L. piscis fish: see -ine1.]
Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or characteristic of a fish or fishes.
1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 240 Covered by bituminous marlite, and with piscine remains. 1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. III. 34 Derceto was the piscine ship-goddess of the Syrians. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Orr's Circ. Sc. I. Org. Nat. 183 The piscine modification of the vertebrate skeleton. 1899E. Callow Old Lond. Tav. i. 120 Billingsgate, the great Walhalla of all things piscine. |
