单词 | champaign |
释义 | champaignn.adj. A. n. 1. An expanse of level, open country, a plain; a level field; a clearing. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain fieldeOE wong971 field landOE woldc1220 flat1296 plainc1325 field placec1384 champaign?a1400 floor?a1400 smeethc1440 plain-land1487 weald1544 champian1589 camp1605 level1623 campaign1628 planure1632 campania1663 esplanade1681 flatland1735 vlakte1785 steppe1837 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1226 To-warde Castelle Blanke he chesez hym the waye, Thurghe a faire champayne, undyr chalke hyllis. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 168 After many iourneyes & many wayes & champaynes trauersid. 1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 364v/2 A large plaine Under a wood, in a champaine. a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) i. i. 64 With shadowie Forrests, and with Champains rich'd. 1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 105 A plain and pleasant champain. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xv. 66 Who o'er Verona's champain try their speed For the green mantle. 1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 71 Looking round the champaign wide. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 57 And riversundered champaign clothed with corn. 1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. (1875) II. 302 These rising grounds command the champaign below. 2. (without plural or article) as a species of land or landscape: Flat, open country, without hills, woods, or other impediments. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > open (level) land fieldeOE champaignc1420 champian1570 overture1579 campagnaa1664 plain1755 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 241 In champeyne eke, and nygh the sees brynke. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 16 Thens 10. Miles al by Chaumpain..to Farington, standing in a stony Ground in the Decline of an Hille. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 257 Fair Champain with less rivers interveind. View more context for this quotation a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) i. 6 The whole Country is Champain. 1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xv. 519 A hill-country is more beautiful to the eye than champaign. 3. the champaign (without plural): (a) the level, open country, in opposition to the mountains and woods; †(b) the country, as opposed to town. ΚΠ 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 169/1 She wente thenne into the champeyn to a cyte named Vorulana. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 99 As well of the hils..as of the plaine and champain. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Wisd. vii. 7 Toward the South, and in the champine. 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 240 A wilde-beast or a thief may easily be descried in the open champain. 1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 39 [In the town] Bands and Cuffs are fouled more in one day, than in ten in the Champain. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 24 Where the mountains sink down upon the champaign, or more level land. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > common or unenclosed common1377 moor1386 common land1470 champestrea1492 common field1523 champaign1555 commons1583 champian1611 commonity1612 public domain1627 commonage1635 commoninga1661 range1707–8 open1733 common area1837 mark1849 veld1852 outdoors1859 wide (also great, vast) open spaces1910 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > common or unenclosed land lea805 leasea1000 green1190 common1377 tye1407 common field1523 champaign1555 commons1583 champian1611 commonage1635 commoninga1661 open1733 open field1762 mark1849 veld1852 scat-field1881 stray1889 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions Pref. 10 Thei now..conuerted the champeine to tillage, the plaines to pasture, etc. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 34 The least turfe of hallowed glebe is with God himself of more value than all the Champaigne of Common possession. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II clxxx, in Poems (1878) III. 182 Mount her hedge, T' enjoy the Champaigne; whilst another mournes In an enclosure. a. The level open country as the chief scene of military operations; ‘the field’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > level country as scene of battle plainc1385 field1567 champian1579 champaign1600 champian?1611 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. viii. 93 b The armie of the robbers..came downe into the champaine [L. campos], and spoyled the territories of Preneste and Gabes. 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 86 Not to haue come down all the time of his invasion into the champagne. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 391 Philip, as soon as ever he was come out of the narrow wayes, into the open Champayne, was presently inclosed. 1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome xx. 130 Once arrived on the Italian champain, all his trials would be recompensed. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] fieldeOE place?c1225 fletc1275 champ of battlec1300 champany?a1400 o laundon?a1400 palaestrac1425 battle-stead1487 fighting-stead1487 open fielda1500 spear-field1508 joining-place1513 camp1525 foughten field1569 battleground1588 Aceldama1607 champian?1611 field of honour1611 champaign1614 standing ground1662 fighting-field1676 battlefield1715 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. iii. §16. 535 To wish any second victorie, in the naked Champans about Cannæ. 1615 T. Heywood Foure Prentises i, in Wks. (1874) II. 221 Your bloods these champaines shall embrue. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 959 His bounding Helmet on the Champain rung. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. x. 58 The bloody champain strew'd with arms. 1840 R. H. Barham Grey Dolphin in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 82 The shrill tones of a trumpet were heard to sound thrice from the champaign. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > campaign campagna1652 campaign1656 campania1679 champaign1684 1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus vi. 142 Attended his Father this Champaign, to instruct himself..in the Rudiments of War. 6. transferred. a. Open or level expanse; cf. field n.1 18. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading out > an expanse of something spacea1382 widenessa1382 continuance1398 field1547 sheet1593 universe1598 main1609 reach1610 expansion1611 extent1627 champaign1656 fetch1662 mass1662 expanse1667 spread1712 run1719 width1733 acre1759 sweep1767 contiguity1785 extension1786 stretch1829 breadths1839 outspread1847 outstretch1858 1656 H. More Antidote Atheism ii. iv. 50 To view those Campos natantes..that vast Champain of Water, the Ocean. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 2 All night the dreadless Angel..Through Heav'ns wide Champain held his way. View more context for this quotation 1679 C. Cotton Confinement 8 The wide Champain, of the milky way. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxii. 281 A broad champaigne of undulating ice. b. Even unruffled surface. ΚΠ 1836 Random Recoll. Ho. Lords xiii. 288 The tranquil champaign of his face is seldom troubled by anything in the shape of undue warmth or excitement. 7. figurative. ‘Field’ (of view, observation, research, etc.); expanse. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > affair, business, concern > [noun] > field of interest mattera1387 campa1538 champian1596 domain1764 champaign1839 ground1847 one's line of country1861 1596 E. Spenser View State Ireland The abuses of customes; in which, mee seemes, you have a faire champian layde open unto you. 1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xii. §5. 136 To expatiate a little into a Champian and Field of matter.] 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 19 To bid you the base through the wide, and dusty champaine of the Councels. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iii. 167 Sweeping round the champaign of universal science. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 379 Indicating the poet's comprehension of the whole champaign, as it were, of a character. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 392 Slowly spreading in an inert ooze over the social champaign. B. adj. (or attributive use of the noun) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [adjective] > common or unenclosed land > relating to champaignc1430 champian1580 c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) v. xxvi. 139 a In departing of chaumpayne heritages Atwene the worthy and poore. 2. Of the nature of a champaign; level and open; free from hills, woods, enclosures, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [adjective] > and open fieldya1400 champian1523 champaign1575 fieldish1587 fielden1604 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xviii. 22 There about was some champyon countrey, with corne and medowes.] 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xl. 118 Then he breaketh ouer the champaigne Countries. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 185 b You see..howe champaine a plaine lyeth open for me. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Surveying To take the Plot of..a large Champain Field. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxvii. 59 The Temple stands on an high champain Ground. 1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 555 In champion countries.] 1867 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies IV. i. 33 This tract..was, compared with Armenia, champaign and level. 3. (a) Of the field or open country, field-. (b) Of champaign land. ΚΠ 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Campál Batálla campál, a champaine warre. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cxciii, in Poems (1878) IV. 149 Not as they had fought A well-fram'd Champaigne Battle. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. i. iv. 43 The land..presents..a champaign view. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 143 Glimpses of champaign scenery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.?a1400 |
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