macilentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas.ɪ.lənt/

形容詞

macilent (comparative more macilent, superlative most macilent)

1. Lean; thin; emaciated
   • c. 1675–1702, Howe, John, “The Living Temple”, in The Works of John Howe, M.A., volume 3, Religious Tract Society, published 1870, page 469:

     It ought not to be doubted but that there will yet be a time of so copious an effusion of the Holy Spirit, as will invigorate it afresh and make it spring up, out of its macilent withered state, into its primitive liveliness and beauty.