单词 | creolian |
释义 | Creoliann.adj. A. n. = Creole n. 1 Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > national of a country > [noun] > creole Creolian1648 Creole1697 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 66 The chief actors were found to bee the Criolians or Natives of the Countrey. c1675 Ld. Vaughan Let. in Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) (at cited word) The island is exceeding healthfull, the Children which are Borne in it thrive exceedingly, so that the Croyoliens and natives will in a few yeares make a great People. 1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 239 The Spaniards..born in America of white Parents, who are called Crioli or Criolians. 1763 St. James's Chron. 19 May There is not greater Antipathy between the Ichneumon and the Crocodile..than there is between a Creolean and a Scotchman. 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon III. ii. 80 This lady was a Creolian. 1894 ‘A. Spinner’ Study in Colour i. 17 In a moment of enthusiasm the Creolians erected various large and lofty buildings. 1946 H. W. Troyer Ned Ward of Grub St. iv. 70 A group of West-Indian Creolians cooking a porker over an open fire. B. adj. Designating a person that is a Creole (Creole n. 1); of or relating to a Creole or Creoles. Cf. Creole adj. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > national of a country > [adjective] > creole Creolian1648 Creole1718 creolized1816 the world > people > nations > national of a country > [adjective] > creole > relating to Creole1716 Creolian1842 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 97 Thus with my Criolian neighbours company my bread and water went down cheerfully. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World iii. 96 A mixed breed of Creolian Spaniards. 1793 W. Godwin Enq. Polit. Justice (1796) II. 94 Born a manorial serf or a Creolian negro. 1842 J. W. Orderson Creoleana 8 The customs..of Creolean society. 1873 Galaxy Aug. 252/1 The centre of Creolian delights of a Sunday evening is to be found at the French theatre. 1939 Stud. Philol. 36 510 Mrs. Ellison is more typically creolian than her husband. 2009 D. S. Shields in R. Bauer & J. A. Mazzotti Creole Subj. in Colonial Americas 101 After the Restoration, it stood at the core of creolian self-understanding of enterprising Anglo-Americans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1648 |
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