单词 | agricultor |
释义 | agricultorn. rare in later use. A person engaged in or concerned with agriculture; esp. a person who cultivates the soil in order to grow crops; a husbandman.In quot. ?a1425 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] tiliec1000 acremanOE husbanda1300 husbandmanc1384 farmer1528 breeder1547 farmeress1595 colona1640 agricole1656 georgic1703 agricultor1766 Farmer Giles1770 agriculturer1776 agriculturalist1788 culturist1814 fazendeiro1825 bartoner1832 agriculturist1849 culturalist1866 farmerette1901 dry-land farmer1914 drylander1921 Eurofarmer1957 multiplier1969 pick-your-owner1969 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 18v The ȝerde [= penis] forsoþ is þe agricultor .i[d est]. þe tiller of mannes nature, Sewingly þe way of þe vrine. 1766 tr. I. de Pinto Ess. on Luxury 82 Those subjects, if they are mechanics, being less attached to their country, than the agricultors, would go over, in crouds, to foreign nations. 1795 Monthly Rev. Jan. 40 This tract does Dr. Anderson very great credit as a scientific agricultor. 1825 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. ii. v. 472 Careful agricultors study, in the finishing part of the process, to have the harrows drawn in a straight line, without suffering the horses to go in a zig-zag manner. 1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian vi. §2. 228 A man that keeps a vineyard, a vinedresser, or an agricultor. 1907 Pennsylvania Med. Jrnl. 11 640/2 Pasteur found a vaccine which would prevent animals from contracting splenic fever... A great public exhibition was made in the presence of agricultors, physicians, [etc.]. 2011 C. Lemoy Across Pacific iii. 129 Native Americans settled on the lower course of the Amazonian basin, where agricultors and sylvicultors had already settled..4000 years earlier. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?a1425 |
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