ambitn.

Brit.

/ˈambᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈæmbət/

Forms:

α. late Middle English ambyte (in a late copy), 1500s–1600s ambite, 1600s– ambit.

β. 1500s–1600s 1900s– ambitus.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ambitus.

Etymology: < classical Latin ambitus circuit, revolution, circumference, perimeter, edge, strip of ground round the outside of a building, area contained in a ring or perimeter, expanse, expression, phrase, in post-classical Latin also town wall, neighbourhood (10th cent.), parish boundary (11th cent.), castle wall, monastery wall (12th cent.), cloister (14th cent.) < ambīre (see ambient adj.) + -tus, suffix forming verbal nouns.Compare Catalan àmbit (1561), Spanish ambito (15th cent.), Italian ambito (a1322), all earliest in sense 2b. The following earlier quot. probably shows the classical Latin noun in an English context: ▸ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxix. 1382 Ambitus [is] a space bitwene place and hous of neiȝebours, of tweye foote brode and an half, yordeyned for a wey.

†1. Originally: a space that is left vacant around a house, castle, town, etc. Later more generally: the precincts or grounds of a place. Frequently in plural. Obsolete.In quot. 1848 in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > that which surrounds > a surrounding space or area > of a dwelling or plot of land

ambita1525

neighbourage1610

a1525 (a1473) Syon Additions Brethren (St. Paul's Cathedral 5) in J. Hogg Rewyll Seynt Sauioure (1980) III. xxxv. 77 The seyd brother schal se that ther be a lettron set in the ȝendyr corner of the ambytys for redyng of the gosbel, towarde the este.

1644 Impudence Romish Whore 11 The City, Ambits, and Precincts of the Religious Houses of the Monks.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 399 The Brethren in the coll. of English Benedictines..appointing him a little cell within the ambits of their house.

1746 C. Smith Antient & Present State Waterford v. 203 Extending themselves..to the bounds of Killure, as also the ambit and precincts of Killculebeene.

1848 H. Hallam Suppl. Notes View Europe Middle Ages 304 Within the verge or ambit of the king's presence.

a. The enclosing boundary of a house, castle, town, etc.; the boundary of a district or region; the bounds, limits. Now somewhat archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s) > border(s)

frontier1413

limitationa1475

skirt1488

limity1523

rind1530

border1535

ambit1597

verges1680

county line1776

land-board1790

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxxii. 440 The verye ambite of their walles and turrettes.

a1645 J. Philipot Villare Cantianum (1659) 161 Those that will justly denote the Ambitus and Bounds, must not think it begins at Kent-street, because it is so called of the Road-way into Kent.

1828 J. B. Moore & J. Payne Rep. Cases Courts of Common Pleas & Exchequer Chamber I. 742 Charing-Cross being within the ambit or district of that which..is called London.

1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 745 Districts lying within the parochial ambit.

1877 Law Jrnl. Rep. 46 618/2 When we speak of a man living at Oxford or at Gloucester, we mean that the man is within the ambits of those respective cities.

1905 Calcutta Law Jrnl. 2 123 The land..is geographically within the ambit of the second defendant's estate.

1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. iii. 351 Most effective, in a functional sense, was the protection the architect distilled, as it were, from the ambitus of his houses.

2006 J. May Sorcerer's Moon 153 It'll hold good so long as Beynor remains within the ambit of Boarsden Castle.

b. The circumference of a circle or a circular object; the perimeter; the distance around something; (also) an arc; an orbit. Now rare and archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > circularity > a circle > circumference

compass1340

circuita1382

roundnessa1382

circumference1393

circlea1400

round?a1500

circumstance1509

apsis1601

ambit1655

1655 W. Oughtred Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 83 The area of the whole circle is equal to the half ambite multiplied by the radius.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. iii. 8 Prodigious Hailstones, whose ambit reaches five, six, seven Inches.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. ii. ii. 43 [The earth's] Ambit therefore is 24930 Miles.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) A particular enquiry concerning the Ambit or circumference of antient Rome.

1868 J. H. Nelson Madura Country i. i. 20 Some have bunds or dykes only a few yards long, and will irrigate only two or three acres of land: others have an ambit of several miles.

1908 Archit. Rec. Aug. 97/2 You are wafted into the air, pass the other leg of the huge machine at the highest point of your ambit, and descend on the other side.

2002 J. N. McKean Quattrocento ix. 93 An astrolabe,..with the ambits of the sun and the moon marked off.

3. The sphere, scope, or reach of something; the full extent. Also: a sphere or area within which something or someone is active or effective.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > sphere of activity

fieldOE

limitationc1405

hemisphere?1504

ambitudea1525

world1580

orb1598

spherea1616

ambit1649

scene1737

orblet1841

front1917

parish1940

ballpark1963

shtick1965

1649 Subjects Sorrow 17 The delightfull Ambits of His vertues.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. Pref. sig. A4 These three Names of Atlantick, Indian, and South Seas or Oceans, serve me for the whole Ambit of the Torrid Zone.

1859 Sat. Rev. 19 Nov. 615/1 The ambit of words which a language possesses.

1882 Times 10 Apr. 7/1 Misconception as to the ambit of this legislation.

1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. ii. 206 They would not normally have come within Lady Rosscommon's ambit, but, living so close, the parties mingled.

1986 R. Delmar in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? 16 The sense of uselessness or awareness of grievance might be sufficient to bring someone into the ambit of women's politics.

2010 Daily Times (Pakistan) (Nexis) 25 Apr. All institutions should work within the ambit of the constitution.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	ambit
释义	ambitn. Brit. /ˈambᵻt/, U.S. /ˈæmbət/ Forms: α. late Middle English ambyte (in a late copy), 1500s–1600s ambite, 1600s– ambit. β. 1500s–1600s 1900s– ambitus. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ambitus. Etymology: < classical Latin ambitus circuit, revolution, circumference, perimeter, edge, strip of ground round the outside of a building, area contained in a ring or perimeter, expanse, expression, phrase, in post-classical Latin also town wall, neighbourhood (10th cent.), parish boundary (11th cent.), castle wall, monastery wall (12th cent.), cloister (14th cent.) < ambīre (see ambient adj.) + -tus, suffix forming verbal nouns.Compare Catalan àmbit (1561), Spanish ambito (15th cent.), Italian ambito (a1322), all earliest in sense 2b. The following earlier quot. probably shows the classical Latin noun in an English context: ▸ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxix. 1382 Ambitus [is] a space bitwene place and hous of neiȝebours, of tweye foote brode and an half, yordeyned for a wey. †1. Originally: a space that is left vacant around a house, castle, town, etc. Later more generally: the precincts or grounds of a place. Frequently in plural. Obsolete.In quot. 1848 in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > that which surrounds > a surrounding space or area > of a dwelling or plot of land ambita1525 neighbourage1610 a1525 (a1473) Syon Additions Brethren (St. Paul's Cathedral 5) in J. Hogg Rewyll Seynt Sauioure (1980) III. xxxv. 77 The seyd brother schal se that ther be a lettron set in the ȝendyr corner of the ambytys for redyng of the gosbel, towarde the este. 1644 Impudence Romish Whore 11 The City, Ambits, and Precincts of the Religious Houses of the Monks. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 399 The Brethren in the coll. of English Benedictines..appointing him a little cell within the ambits of their house. 1746 C. Smith Antient & Present State Waterford v. 203 Extending themselves..to the bounds of Killure, as also the ambit and precincts of Killculebeene. 1848 H. Hallam Suppl. Notes View Europe Middle Ages 304 Within the verge or ambit of the king's presence. 2. a. The enclosing boundary of a house, castle, town, etc.; the boundary of a district or region; the bounds, limits. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s) > border(s) frontier1413 limitationa1475 skirt1488 limity1523 rind1530 border1535 ambit1597 verges1680 county line1776 land-board1790 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxxii. 440 The verye ambite of their walles and turrettes. a1645 J. Philipot Villare Cantianum (1659) 161 Those that will justly denote the Ambitus and Bounds, must not think it begins at Kent-street, because it is so called of the Road-way into Kent. 1828 J. B. Moore & J. Payne Rep. Cases Courts of Common Pleas & Exchequer Chamber I. 742 Charing-Cross being within the ambit or district of that which..is called London. 1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 745 Districts lying within the parochial ambit. 1877 Law Jrnl. Rep. 46 618/2 When we speak of a man living at Oxford or at Gloucester, we mean that the man is within the ambits of those respective cities. 1905 Calcutta Law Jrnl. 2 123 The land..is geographically within the ambit of the second defendant's estate. 1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. iii. 351 Most effective, in a functional sense, was the protection the architect distilled, as it were, from the ambitus of his houses. 2006 J. May Sorcerer's Moon 153 It'll hold good so long as Beynor remains within the ambit of Boarsden Castle. b. The circumference of a circle or a circular object; the perimeter; the distance around something; (also) an arc; an orbit. Now rare and archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > circularity > a circle > circumference compass1340 circuita1382 roundnessa1382 circumference1393 circlea1400 round?a1500 circumstance1509 apsis1601 ambit1655 1655 W. Oughtred Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 83 The area of the whole circle is equal to the half ambite multiplied by the radius. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. iii. 8 Prodigious Hailstones, whose ambit reaches five, six, seven Inches. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. ii. ii. 43 [The earth's] Ambit therefore is 24930 Miles. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) A particular enquiry concerning the Ambit or circumference of antient Rome. 1868 J. H. Nelson Madura Country i. i. 20 Some have bunds or dykes only a few yards long, and will irrigate only two or three acres of land: others have an ambit of several miles. 1908 Archit. Rec. Aug. 97/2 You are wafted into the air, pass the other leg of the huge machine at the highest point of your ambit, and descend on the other side. 2002 J. N. McKean Quattrocento ix. 93 An astrolabe,..with the ambits of the sun and the moon marked off. 3. The sphere, scope, or reach of something; the full extent. Also: a sphere or area within which something or someone is active or effective. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > sphere of activity fieldOE limitationc1405 hemisphere?1504 ambitudea1525 world1580 orb1598 spherea1616 ambit1649 scene1737 orblet1841 front1917 parish1940 ballpark1963 shtick1965 1649 Subjects Sorrow 17 The delightfull Ambits of His vertues. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. Pref. sig. A4 These three Names of Atlantick, Indian, and South Seas or Oceans, serve me for the whole Ambit of the Torrid Zone. 1859 Sat. Rev. 19 Nov. 615/1 The ambit of words which a language possesses. 1882 Times 10 Apr. 7/1 Misconception as to the ambit of this legislation. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. ii. 206 They would not normally have come within Lady Rosscommon's ambit, but, living so close, the parties mingled. 1986 R. Delmar in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? 16 The sense of uselessness or awareness of grievance might be sufficient to bring someone into the ambit of women's politics. 2010 Daily Times (Pakistan) (Nexis) 25 Apr. All institutions should work within the ambit of the constitution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1525
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