单词 | diploma |
释义 | diploman. 1. a. A state paper, an official document; a charter.‘In modern times, a general term for ancient imperial and ecclesiastical acts and grants, public treaties, deeds of conveyance, letters, wills, and similar instruments, drawn up in forms and marked with peculiarities varying with their dates and countries’ ( Encycl. Brit. s.v.) ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > [noun] writlOE charterc1270 writingc1384 paper1389 monument1405 instrument1426 cartec1449 chart1616 diploma1645 diplome1669 expedition1685 law-writings1701 chirograph1844 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. xv. 23 The King of Spain..was forcd to publish a Diploma wherein he dispensd with himself (as the Holland Story hath it) from payment. 1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus vi. 150 To pass a Diploma constituting his Lordship a Count of the Empire. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 425 They carefully avoided consulting the elector, and kept the diploma of his nomination to themselves. 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iv. i. 485 The curious diploma addressed to Eric..respecting the genealogy of William Saint Clair. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 254/1 The Merovingian sovereigns authenticated their diplomas by the addition of their signature. b. An original document as a matter of historical investigation or literary study; plural historical or literary muniments. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > original in relation to transcript original1483 manuscript1607 antigraph1656 protograph1841 diploma1845 Urtext1932 vorlage1965 1697 H. Wanley Let. in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) I. 80 My present design..is more relating to the nature of Letters, than to the Diplomata or Charters themselves.] 1845 T. De Quincey Suspiria de Profundis in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 742/1 If, in the vellum palimpsest, lying amongst the other diplomata of human archives or libraries, there is anything fantastic. 1891 H. H. Howorth in Spectator 12 Dec. 843/1 It [the Old Canon of Scripture]..contained books originally written in Hebrew, in so-called Chaldee, and in Greek..all of them treated as their most sacred diplomata by the early Christians and the early Councils. 2. a. A document granted by a competent authority conferring some honour, privilege, or licence; esp. that given by a university or college, testifying to a degree taken by a person, and conferring upon him the rights and privileges of such degree, as to teach, practise medicine, or the like. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [noun] > document conferring right or privilege privilegec1240 charter?a1250 patentc1387 diplomaa1658 brevet1689 charta1698 codicil1781 society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > diploma diplomaa1658 sheepskin1843 Dip1895 a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 153 You have Ennobled me with your Testimony, and I shall keep your Paper as the Diploma of my Honour. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants Pref. sig. A2 The Printer, whose Name was to be inserted therein, not having received his Diploma till that time. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 109 This morning our Diplomata were presented to us..to certifie our having visited all the holy places. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iv. i. 134/1 This University did present their President with a Diploma, for a Doctorate. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4812/4 Pretends to be a Physician, having a Diploma to that effect from the College of Doway. 1772 J. Wesley Jrnl. 28 Apr. They..presented me with the freedom of the city. The diploma ran thus. 1795 in Sir J. Sinclair Corr. (1831) II. 21 My sincere thanks..for the diploma..admitting me a foreign honorary member of the Board of Agriculture. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. i. 15 The writ of diploma or privilege of settling near the free and royal towns. 1849 G. C. Lewis Ess. Infl. Authority ix. §17. 330 The granting of diplomas by universities or other learned bodies proceeds on the supposition that the public require some assistance to their judgment in the choice of professional services, and that such an official scrutiny into the qualifications of practitioners is a useful security against the imposture or incompetency of mere pretenders to skill. 1863 R. W. Emerson H. D. Thoreau in Wks. (1906) III. 333 No college ever offered him a diploma, or a professor's chair. b. attributive, as diploma picture (in chartered academies and societies of art), one given to the society by a member on his election; in the case of the Royal Academy kept in the Diploma Gallery. ΚΠ 1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 258 Turner's diploma picture was ‘Dolbadern’..full of the grand solemnity of evening. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Oct. 1/2 The least known public collection of art in London is certainly the Diploma Gallery of the Royal Academy. 3. The following medieval Latin senses are also given in dictionaries, but with no claim to English use. a. = diploe n. 1. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Diploma. b. A folded cloth. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Diploma. c. A double vessel used in chemical operations. ΚΠ 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. (at cited word) Thus, ‘To boil in diploma’ is to put the vessel..into a second vessel, to which the fire is applied. 1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 262 Diploma. Derivatives diˈplomaless adj. without a diploma. ΚΠ 1837 G. Wilson Let. in Life (1860) II. 82 Diplomaless folks. 1873 H. Curwen Hist. Booksellers 61 A diplomaless doctor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). diplomav. transitive. To furnish with a diploma. Chiefly in participial adj. ΚΠ 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. vii. 392 Doggeries never so diplomaed, bepuffed, gas-lighted, continue Doggeries, and must take the fate of such. 1869 W. R. Greg Lit. & Social Judgm. (ed. 2) 400 They have, as it were, been diploma-ed and laureated to this effect, stamped with the Hall Mark. Derivatives diplomaed adj. [partly < diploma n.; compare certificated adj. at certificate v. Derivatives] ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > examination > [adjective] > of or having a diploma or certificate diplomatized1670 diplomaed1831 diplomatal1889 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. 238 Surgical knowledge, superior to many of the diploma'd butchers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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