civetn.¹

Brit.

/ˈsɪvɪt/, U.S.

/ˈsɪvət/

Forms: Also 1500s zeuet, 1500s–1600s siuet, sivet, 1600s cyvet, 1600s–1800s civit, 1700s civette.

Etymology: < French civette (15th cent. in Littré, both for the beast and the perfume), Italian zibetto, medieval Latin zibethum, medieval Greek ζαπέτιον, all originating in the Arabic name zabād , zubād . (Intermediate forms, now apparently lost, must have come between the Arabic and the European words.) See also zibet n.The Arabic lexicographers connect the word with zabada to cream, foam, zubd froth, cream, zubbād cream, etc., as if originally applied to the secretion; but Devic inclines to think that there is a mere accidental coincidence between these words and the name of the quadruped, which was perhaps adopted from some African language.

1. A genus of carnivorous quadrupeds, yielding the secretion called by the same name. Specifically, the central African species, Viverra civetta, an animal ranking in size and appearance between the fox and the weasel. Often called more fully civet-cat n. The allied Asiatic species V. zibetha is often distinguished by the variant name zibet n. The Javanese species is the Rasse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > family Viverridae > [noun] > genus Viverra

civet1532

civet-cat1607

viverra1790

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > family Viverridae > [noun] > genus Viverra > viverra civetta (civet)

civet1532

civet-cat1607

viverra1790

1532 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1965) V. 329 A beast called a civet.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Ciuet, beast, cibeta.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 756 A Zibeth or Siuet..which was brought out of Affrica.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 304 The Dog kind..the Dog, the Wolf..the Civette.

1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 66 In the true Civets there is a deep pouch divided into two sacs, filled with an abundant pommade of a strong musty odour, secreted by glands which surround it.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. ii. 115 The Common or true Civet..inhabits Guinea, Congo, and Ethiopia. This mammal is about twenty-eight inches long.

a. A yellowish or brownish unctuous substance, having a strong musky smell, obtained from sacs or glands in the anal pouch of several animals of the Civet genus, especially of the African Civet-cat. It is used in perfumery.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume > specifically

ewrosec1350

stacte1382

oil of rosesa1398

rose watera1398

sandalc1400

musk?a1425

damask water?1520

malabathrum1543

orris1545

civet1553

ambracan1555

rose cake1559

lavender-water1563

oil of spikenard1565

zibet1594

orange-flower water1595

orris powder?1600

spike-oil1611

angel water1634

cypress-powder1634

angelica1653

jasmine1670

jessamy1671

rosat1674

frangipane1676

marechale1676

orangery1676

tuberose1682

jasmine-water1750

otto1759

rose geranium1773

millefleurs1775

new-mown hay1789

attar1798

eau-de-Cologne1802

Cologne1814

dedes1817

eau de Portugal1825

verbena1837

rondeletia1838

bay-rum1840

Florida water1840

citronelle1841

patchouli1843

citronella1849

gardenia1851

sandalwood oil1851

Ess Bouquet1855

marmala water1857

mignonette1858

spikenard oil1861

sandalwood1865

serpolet1866

ylang-ylang1876

flower-water1886

lily1890

lilac1895

stephanotis1895

tea rose1897

chypre1898

Peau d'Espagne1898

violette de Parme1904

poppy1905

Parma violet1907

wallflower1907

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > family Viverridae > [noun] > genus Viverra > viverra civetta (civet) > parts of

civet1553

cod1577

zibet1594

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fvj^v Siuet or muske.

1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 76^v Muske and Zeuet in euery place did abound.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. viii. f. 258 The precious greace or humour, which they call Ciuet and Zibeth.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 758 This Siuet is an excrement.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 62 Ciuet is of a baser birth then Tarre, the verie vncleanly fluxe of a Cat.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 226 I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.

1842 R. H. Barham Auto-da-fé in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 73 Assafœtida mix'd with your bouquet and civet.

b. transferred and figurative. Anything perfumed with civet; anything acting as a perfume.

ΚΠ

a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. iii. 36 Confer It to the Civetts of an Officer, Whose Tooth-picker..Betrayes him Sleeping.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 7 To make a Civet of their Song Obscene, and sweeten Ordure to Perfume.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

civet-basket n.

ΚΠ

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. vi. 60 They, who..busie themselves in rock-work, in Civet-baskets, in waxen Fruit-Trees.

civet-box n.

ΚΠ

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 204 His Name has been to me as a Civit-Box, yea sweeter than all Perfumes.

† civet lock n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 979 Or kembe his civet lockes.

civet-violet n.

ΚΠ

1709 Tatler No. 101. ⁋5 His Amber Orange-Flower, Musk, and Civet-Violet, put..into an Handkerchief, shall have the same Effect.

C2.

civet-smelling adj.

ΚΠ

1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. E2 A civet-smellinge damaske rose.

civet-tanned adj.

ΚΠ

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. vi. i. 196 You feather-brained, civet-tanned puppet of a man.

C3.

civet-like adj. and adv.

ΚΠ

1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 308 In thy turn, die civet-like at last In the dung-perfume of thy sanctity!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† civetn.²

Forms: Also 1500s cyuet, siuet, siueth.

Etymology: < French civette diminutive of cive : see chive n.¹ (Misprinted in 16th cent. herbals sinet and sweth.)

Obsolete.

= cive n. or chive n.¹ ( Allium schænoprasum).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > onion, leek, or garlic > [noun] > chives

chivea1400

civet1531

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > onion, leek, or garlic > chives

rush leekeOE

chivea1400

sivec1440

civet1531

sweth1562

sithe1573

rush garlic1578

rush onion1578

1531 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Itm, for Cyuet sede.

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.iij Gethium..a ciuet.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 9 Getion is called in Englishe a Cyue, or a Ciuet, or a Chyue.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 101^v Our siuet called in Duche schnitlauch is gethium.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxxv. 643 Turner..Englisheth by al these names a Cyue, a Ciuet, a Chyue, or Sweth.

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 140 Ciues is called..in English Ciues, Chiues, Ciuet and Sweth.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 65 Fine small Grass, resembling Civet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

civetn.³

Brit.

/ˈsɪvɪt/, U.S.

/ˈsɪvət/

Etymology: < French civet: Cotgrave has ‘des Civets , slices of bread toasted, then soaked an hour or two in water and wine; then strained and spice put to them; an excellent sauce’. According to Littré identical with Old French civé , and connected with cive chive n.¹ Medieval Latin had civeta: see Babee's Bk. ii. 42 ‘Carni oviculi, leporis, civeta paretur’.

A stew of game or poultry. So civet de lièvre, civet of hare.

ΚΠ

1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Civet,..a particular Way of dressing Chickens, Hares, &c.

1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Civet, (in Cookery) a particular way of dressing Chickens, Hares, &c. first by frying, and afterwards by stewing them.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) (at cited word) A Civet of a Hind, Stag, or Roe-buck, may be thus order'd.

1841 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. June 721/1 The place was famous for civet de liévre.

1964 Harper's Bazaar Sept. 121/1 Recipes for poaching snipe..and for a civet de lièvre.

1964 Harper's Bazaar Sept. 125/1 Other pieces [of venison] should be made into civets, with plenty of red wine.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

civetv.

Etymology: < civet n.¹

To perfume with civet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > impart perfume [verb (transitive)] > impart specific fragrance

civet1601

bemusk1611

thyme1628

musk1632

ambera1640

spice1648

rose-water1655

jessamy1688

becivet1805

lavender1820

rose1875

1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxviii. sig. P6^v And ciuilizd, or ciuited..kisse the hand.

Derivatives

civeted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] > smelling of specific things

rosat?c1425

rosetc1450

rosed1559

musked1576

musky1580

rosya1586

myrrhed1591

muskifiedc1600

roseal1601

olibian1605

roseate1611

honeysuckled1640

myrrhate1659

muscatelline1673

myrrhy1686

muskish1706

thymy1746

rose-scented1759

civeted1785

lily-scented1796

ottoed1810

citron-scented1817

camphory1826

camphoraceous1845

tea-scented1845

frankincensed1860

rose-like1866

sagey1871

camphorous1881

osier-odoured1881

lemony1894

lavendery1896

patchoulied1925

1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 830 Fops..lady-like in mien, Civeted fellows, smelt ere they are seen.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

n.¹1532

n.²1531

n.³1708

v.1601

单词	civet
释义	civetn.¹ Brit. /ˈsɪvɪt/, U.S. /ˈsɪvət/ Forms: Also 1500s zeuet, 1500s–1600s siuet, sivet, 1600s cyvet, 1600s–1800s civit, 1700s civette. Etymology: < French civette (15th cent. in Littré, both for the beast and the perfume), Italian zibetto, medieval Latin zibethum, medieval Greek ζαπέτιον, all originating in the Arabic name zabād , zubād . (Intermediate forms, now apparently lost, must have come between the Arabic and the European words.) See also zibet n.The Arabic lexicographers connect the word with zabada to cream, foam, zubd froth, cream, zubbād cream, etc., as if originally applied to the secretion; but Devic inclines to think that there is a mere accidental coincidence between these words and the name of the quadruped, which was perhaps adopted from some African language. 1. A genus of carnivorous quadrupeds, yielding the secretion called by the same name. Specifically, the central African species, Viverra civetta, an animal ranking in size and appearance between the fox and the weasel. Often called more fully civet-cat n. The allied Asiatic species V. zibetha is often distinguished by the variant name zibet n. The Javanese species is the Rasse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > family Viverridae > [noun] > genus Viverra civet1532 civet-cat1607 viverra1790 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > family Viverridae > [noun] > genus Viverra > viverra civetta (civet) civet1532 civet-cat1607 viverra1790 1532 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1965) V. 329 A beast called a civet. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Ciuet, beast, cibeta. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 756 A Zibeth or Siuet..which was brought out of Affrica. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 304 The Dog kind..the Dog, the Wolf..the Civette. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 66 In the true Civets there is a deep pouch divided into two sacs, filled with an abundant pommade of a strong musty odour, secreted by glands which surround it. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. ii. 115 The Common or true Civet..inhabits Guinea, Congo, and Ethiopia. This mammal is about twenty-eight inches long. 2. a. A yellowish or brownish unctuous substance, having a strong musky smell, obtained from sacs or glands in the anal pouch of several animals of the Civet genus, especially of the African Civet-cat. It is used in perfumery. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume > specifically ewrosec1350 stacte1382 oil of rosesa1398 rose watera1398 sandalc1400 musk?a1425 damask water?1520 malabathrum1543 orris1545 civet1553 ambracan1555 rose cake1559 lavender-water1563 oil of spikenard1565 zibet1594 orange-flower water1595 orris powder?1600 spike-oil1611 angel water1634 cypress-powder1634 angelica1653 jasmine1670 jessamy1671 rosat1674 frangipane1676 marechale1676 orangery1676 tuberose1682 jasmine-water1750 otto1759 rose geranium1773 millefleurs1775 new-mown hay1789 attar1798 eau-de-Cologne1802 Cologne1814 dedes1817 eau de Portugal1825 verbena1837 rondeletia1838 bay-rum1840 Florida water1840 citronelle1841 patchouli1843 citronella1849 gardenia1851 sandalwood oil1851 Ess Bouquet1855 marmala water1857 mignonette1858 spikenard oil1861 sandalwood1865 serpolet1866 ylang-ylang1876 flower-water1886 lily1890 lilac1895 stephanotis1895 tea rose1897 chypre1898 Peau d'Espagne1898 violette de Parme1904 poppy1905 Parma violet1907 wallflower1907 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > family Viverridae > [noun] > genus Viverra > viverra civetta (civet) > parts of civet1553 cod1577 zibet1594 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fvj^v Siuet or muske. 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 76^v Muske and Zeuet in euery place did abound. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. viii. f. 258 The precious greace or humour, which they call Ciuet and Zibeth. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 758 This Siuet is an excrement. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 62 Ciuet is of a baser birth then Tarre, the verie vncleanly fluxe of a Cat. View more context for this quotation 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 226 I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume. 1842 R. H. Barham Auto-da-fé in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 73 Assafœtida mix'd with your bouquet and civet. b. transferred and figurative. Anything perfumed with civet; anything acting as a perfume. ΚΠ a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. iii. 36 Confer It to the Civetts of an Officer, Whose Tooth-picker..Betrayes him Sleeping. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 7 To make a Civet of their Song Obscene, and sweeten Ordure to Perfume. Compounds C1. General attributive. civet-basket n. ΚΠ 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. vi. 60 They, who..busie themselves in rock-work, in Civet-baskets, in waxen Fruit-Trees. civet-box n. ΚΠ 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 204 His Name has been to me as a Civit-Box, yea sweeter than all Perfumes. View more context for this quotation † civet lock n. Obsolete ΚΠ c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 979 Or kembe his civet lockes. civet-violet n. ΚΠ 1709 Tatler No. 101. ⁋5 His Amber Orange-Flower, Musk, and Civet-Violet, put..into an Handkerchief, shall have the same Effect. C2. civet-smelling adj. ΚΠ 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. E2 A civet-smellinge damaske rose. civet-tanned adj. ΚΠ 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. vi. i. 196 You feather-brained, civet-tanned puppet of a man. C3. civet-like adj. and adv. ΚΠ 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 308 In thy turn, die civet-like at last In the dung-perfume of thy sanctity! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † civetn.² Forms: Also 1500s cyuet, siuet, siueth. Etymology: < French civette diminutive of cive : see chive n.¹ (Misprinted in 16th cent. herbals sinet and sweth.) Obsolete. = cive n. or chive n.¹ ( Allium schænoprasum). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > onion, leek, or garlic > [noun] > chives chivea1400 civet1531 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > onion, leek, or garlic > chives rush leekeOE chivea1400 sivec1440 civet1531 sweth1562 sithe1573 rush garlic1578 rush onion1578 1531 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Itm, for Cyuet sede. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.iij Gethium..a ciuet. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 9 Getion is called in Englishe a Cyue, or a Ciuet, or a Chyue. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 101^v Our siuet called in Duche schnitlauch is gethium. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxxv. 643 Turner..Englisheth by al these names a Cyue, a Ciuet, a Chyue, or Sweth. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 140 Ciues is called..in English Ciues, Chiues, Ciuet and Sweth. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 65 Fine small Grass, resembling Civet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021). civetn.³ Brit. /ˈsɪvɪt/, U.S. /ˈsɪvət/ Etymology: < French civet: Cotgrave has ‘des Civets , slices of bread toasted, then soaked an hour or two in water and wine; then strained and spice put to them; an excellent sauce’. According to Littré identical with Old French civé , and connected with cive chive n.¹ Medieval Latin had civeta: see Babee's Bk. ii. 42 ‘Carni oviculi, leporis, civeta paretur’. A stew of game or poultry. So civet de lièvre, civet of hare. ΚΠ 1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Civet,..a particular Way of dressing Chickens, Hares, &c. 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Civet, (in Cookery) a particular way of dressing Chickens, Hares, &c. first by frying, and afterwards by stewing them. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) (at cited word) A Civet of a Hind, Stag, or Roe-buck, may be thus order'd. 1841 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. June 721/1 The place was famous for civet de liévre. 1964 Harper's Bazaar Sept. 121/1 Recipes for poaching snipe..and for a civet de lièvre. 1964 Harper's Bazaar Sept. 125/1 Other pieces [of venison] should be made into civets, with plenty of red wine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). civetv. Etymology: < civet n.¹ To perfume with civet. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > impart perfume [verb (transitive)] > impart specific fragrance civet1601 bemusk1611 thyme1628 musk1632 ambera1640 spice1648 rose-water1655 jessamy1688 becivet1805 lavender1820 rose1875 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxviii. sig. P6^v And ciuilizd, or ciuited..kisse the hand. Derivatives civeted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] > smelling of specific things rosat?c1425 rosetc1450 rosed1559 musked1576 musky1580 rosya1586 myrrhed1591 muskifiedc1600 roseal1601 olibian1605 roseate1611 honeysuckled1640 myrrhate1659 muscatelline1673 myrrhy1686 muskish1706 thymy1746 rose-scented1759 civeted1785 lily-scented1796 ottoed1810 citron-scented1817 camphory1826 camphoraceous1845 tea-scented1845 frankincensed1860 rose-like1866 sagey1871 camphorous1881 osier-odoured1881 lemony1894 lavendery1896 patchoulied1925 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 830 Fops..lady-like in mien, Civeted fellows, smelt ere they are seen. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.¹1532n.²1531n.³1708v.1601
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