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genie|ˈdʒiːnɪ|
Also 8 geny, (genii), 9 geni.
[a. F. génie, ad. L. genius.]
1.
†a. A tutelary spirit. (= genius 1.) Obs.
1655tr. De Parc's Francion ii. 53 My Conductor..informed me, that they were the Genyes of mankind. 1702Addison Dial. Medals (1727) 15 To these you may add the Genies of nations, provinces, cities, etc.
b. A jinnee; one of the sprites or goblins of Arabian demonology.[The word génie was adopted by the Fr. translators of the Arabian Nights as the rendering of the Arab. word which it resembled in sound and in sense. In Eng. genie has been commonly used in the sing. and genii (see genius 2) in the plural.] 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. lii, If the plot..had been whispered by a genie, communicated by a dream, or revealed by an angel from on high. 1787Minor 60 It is out of my power to assert whether it is a man or a beast, a genii, or a woman. 1825Scott Talism. xx, His single lock of hair streamed upwards from his bald and shaven head, as if some genie upheld him by it. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 119 The horrible genie of civil murder. 1896Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 3/1 The engagement of Cinquevalli, cleverest of jugglers, to act as geni of the lamp.
2. a. Natural bent or disposition. (= genius 3 a.) (Common in A. Wood.)
1662Bp. Gauden Let. in Chr. Wordsworth Doc. Suppl. (1825) 35 Thereby drawing me, much against my genie, from a very happy privacy. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 177 He was very apt to learn, having a natural genie to good letters. 1692Ibid. II. 292 But his genie..lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry.
†b. A person of genius. (= genius 6 a, 6 b.) Obs.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. ii, He serv'd some time under Merille, the greatest Genie in the world for a Valet d'Chambré. 1685Gracian's Courtiers Orac. 35 These Paramount Genies are Kings by merit. 1687A. Lovell tr. Bergerac's Com. Hist. i. 189 That way of dying is common to great Genies, and it is called, To crack with Wit.
Add:3. With capital initial. Any one of several awards (known until 1980 as Etrogs) presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for excellence in Canadian film-making; any of the statuettes symbolizing such an award. Cf. *Etrog n.2, Oscar n.2
1980Toronto Star 22 Jan. d1/6 The folks at the newly formed Academy of Canadian Cinema, which has taken over The Canadian Film Awards, have opted for a more familiar and bilingual handle: Genie. 1981Washington Post 20 Apr. c1/2 ‘‘White Chicks’ proved to me that I was good.’ So did the Canadian Cinema Genie Award she received as best foreign actress for ‘Atlantic City’. 1987D. Clandfield Canad. Film p. viii, The abbreviation CFA has been used throughout to signify Canadian Film Awards, which over the years have been variously referred to as Etrogs and Genies. 1989Cineaste Sept. 7/1 Neither The Fly nor The Dead Zone officially qualified as a Canadian film in terms of our Canadian film awards, the Genies, which are our equivalent of the Oscars. |