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单词 corsair
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corsairn.

Brit. /ˈkɔːsɛː/, U.S. /ˈkɔrˌsɛ(ə)r/
Forms: α. 1500s corsale, 1500s–1600s cursaro; β. 1500s coursayre, (1600s cursare, corsare), 1600s–1700s corsaire, 1600s– corsair; γ. 1500s–1600s corsary, 1600s–1700s cursary, 1700s corsory; δ. 1600s cursour, cursore, corser.
Etymology: < French corsaire, in 15 –16th cent. coursaire = Provençal corsari, Spanish corsario, Italian corsale, corsare, formerly corsaro, -ario, medieval Latin cursārius (1234 in Matt. Paris, Du Cange), < medieval Latin cursus, cursa hostile excursion, inroad, plunder, booty (Latin cursus a run, march, voyage), Italian corsa, Spanish corsa, Provençal corsa, French course run, naval expedition for plunder. English had in early use the Italian forms corsale, corsare, and in the 17th cent. the anglicized forms cursary, corsary, cursor, cursour. (The reference of the name to Corsica was a piece of Italian popular etymology and animosity.)
1. The name in the languages of the Mediterranean for a privateer; chiefly applied to the cruisers of Barbary, to whose attacks the ships and coasts of the Christian countries were incessantly exposed. In English often treated as identical with pirate, though the Saracen and Turkish corsairs were authorized and recognized by their own government as part of its settled policy towards Christendom.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > privateer or corsair
corsair1549
caper1657
privateer1664
crusal1699
privateersman1706
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > [noun] > privateering > captain of a privateer > privateer
corsair1549
sea-dog1659
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 82 Thei..send forth yerely certaine armed galeis to kepe the seas against Corsales, and Pyrates.
1572 W. Malim tr. N. Martinengo True Rep. Famagosta f. 14 (margin) A Foyst is..much vsed of the Turkish Cursaros, or as we call them Pirates, or Rouers.
1588 R. Greene Perimedes sig. C A Barke of Coursayres and pyrates came by.
1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 6 There is so many Corsaries which go coursing alongst that coast, and robbing and spoiling.
1607 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. 246 III. 88 French and Italian Corsares.
1671 tr. A. Charant Let. conc. Countrys King of Tafiletta 44 in tr. R. Fréjus Relation Voy. Mauritania Master de Razilly came to make war with the Corsaires of Salee.
1697 tr. Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 72 Meluza, the most famous and covetous of all the Corsaries.
1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 97 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The Corsories or Pyrates of Tripoly.
1773 P. Brydone Tour Sicily & Malta I. xiii. 290 The incursions of the Barbary Corsairs.
1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. xxiv. 95 He left a Corsair's name to other times.
1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. iv. 271 The terms brigand or corsair conveyed in the early stages of society no notion of moral guilt.
2. A privateering vessel such as those of the Barbary coast; a pirate-ship sanctioned by the country to which it belongs.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > privateer or pirate ship > [noun]
rover1534
picaroon1625
corsair1632
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) iii. 96 There are many Cur sares and Turkish Galleots, that still afflict these Islanders.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 385 Which they as a Cursaro or man of War confiscated.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia i. 3 There are usually about Forty Christian Corsairs Crusing up and down in the Archipelago.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 25 The Captain of the Corsair was an Irish Renegado.
1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 337 Tuscan corsairs covered the Western Mediterranean.
3. attributive (with corsaire ship cf. French gallée coursaire 15th cent.)
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1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) viii. 346 Two hundred Cursary ships or Pyrats.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. v. 163 Idlers of their own species, called by Apiarists Corsair-bees, which plunder the hives of the industrious.
1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 186 Men..who will build and equip corsair ships..to prey upon the commerce of a friendly power.
4.
a. A scorpænoid fish of the Californian coast, Sebastomus rosaceus. U.S.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Scorpaenidae (scorpion-fishes) > sebastes or sebastichthys
rockfish1605
yellowtaila1622
Jacob Evertsen1727
tambour1854
rasher1881
tomcod1881
corsair1884
tree-fish1888
1884 D. S. Jordan in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 265 Corsair (Sebastichthys rosaceus)..is known to the Portuguese fishermen at Monterey by the name of ‘Corsair’.
1884 D. S. Jordan in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 265 Spotted Corsair (Sebastichthys constellatus).
1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. xxv. 430 The commonest of these [red species] is the corsair, Sebastichthys rosaceus, plain red and golden.
b. A reduviid predatory bug of the genus Rasahus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of family Reduviidae > member of genus Rasahus
corsair1909
1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl.
1926 E. O. Essig Insects Western N. Amer. xxii. 356 The western corsair..is one of the commonest species in California, Arizona, and Mexico.
1939 C. D. Duncan & G. B. Pickwell World of Insects xiii. 223 (caption) The bug on the left is a nymph of the Western Corsair.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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