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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rigor \Ri"gor\, n. [L. See {Rigor}., below.]
   1. Rigidity; stiffness.

   2. (ed.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin;
      a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill
      preceding a fever.

   {Rigor caloris}[L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of
      rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a
      mammal is heated to about 50[deg]C.

   {Rigor mortis}[L., rigor of death], death stiffening; the
      rigidity of the muscles that occurs at death and lasts
      till decomposition sets in. It is due to the formation of
      myosin by the coagulation of the contents of the
      individual muscle fibers.

Rigor \Rig"or\, n. [OE. rigour, OF. rigour, F. rigueur, from L.
   rigor, fr. rigere to be stiff. See {Rigid}.] [Written also
   {rigour}.]
   1. The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid;
      rigidity; stiffness; hardness.

            The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to
            move.                                 --Milton.

   2. (Med.) See 1st {Rigor}, 2.

   3. Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor
      of the storm; the rigors of winter.

   4. Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness;
      hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.

            All his rigor is turned to grief and pity. --Denham.

            If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises, . . . I tell
            you 'T is rigor and not law.          --Shak.

   5. Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence;
      strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law
      with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed
      to {lenity}.

   6. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain,
      abstinence, or mortification.

            The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor
            and austerity of a capuchin.          --Addison.

   7. Violence; force; fury. [Obs.]

            Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could
            stay.                                 --Spenser.

   Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity;
        austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.

資料來源 : WordNet®

rigor
     n 1: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
          [syn: {asperity}, {grimness}, {hardship}, {rigour}, {severity},
           {rigorousness}]
     2: the quality of being logically valid [syn: {cogency}, {validity},
         {rigour}]
     3: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
        of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
        [syn: {severity}, {harshness}, {rigour}, {inclemency}, {hardness},
         {stiffness}]