单词 | disanchor |
释义 | disanchorv. a. transitive. To raise the anchor of (a ship) before sailing; to free or detach (a ship, etc.) from an anchorage or mooring. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΚΠ ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 92 In stede for to retorne to the cyte, she dyde do disancre all her shippis And lete sayle falle and in all haste wythdrewe hem fro the porte. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) cxxvi. 189 They shold disancre theyr shippes and flee. 1595 R. Southwell Triumphs over Death sig. Dv Casteth your anchors where your thoughts should lie at rode, that seeing..your hopes disanchored from this stormie shoare, you might settle your desires where God seemeth to require them. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxi. vii. 776 After he is disankered once..& under saile from Corinth. 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica v. xxxix. 116 Sixe Gallies they Disanker from the Isle. b. intransitive. Of a ship or its crew: to weigh anchor in preparation for departure; (also) to cast off moorings. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)] > anchor > weigh anchor to weigh anchor?a1400 to loose the anchor?c1450 disanchor1477 weigh1513 loose1526 to loose one's bark1567 up killick1837–40 up-anchor1889 society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship) > loose (ship) from anchor disanchor1477 unanchor1648 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 50 She went to the ship that sholde disancre for to go to Athenes. 1530 tr. Caesar Commentaryes f. iiiv He dysauncred & departyd about thre of the clocke. c1595 T. Maynarde Sir Francis Drake his Voy. (1849) 9 The enemie labored to cause us to disankar. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iv. ii. 210 He dispatched Diceus to his ship..to give order to his Pilot to disanchor from the rode where he lay. c1660 R. Carpenter Pragmatical Jesuit iv. v. 47 Take all, reserv'd that I may not dis-anchor from the love of my snow and milky-fac'd Boy. 1695 E. Gibson tr. W. Camden Britannia 129 They disanchor and set sail homewards. 1833 R. Southey Lives Brit. Admirals I. vi. 381 When the tide came they disanchored, and drew up sail. 1847 N. H. Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy II. ii. 105 The Spaniards disanchored and put to sea. 2. transitive. In extended use. To detach or disconnect from something; to make less firmly fixed or secured in place; to remove from a firm basis or foundation. Also with from. Cf. anchor v. 3a.Cf. the earlier intransitive figurative use in quot. c1660 at sense 1b. ΚΠ 1851 [implied in: T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. vi. 205 We need not dwell at too much length on the foreign journeys, disanchorings, and nomadic vicissitudes of household, which occupy his few remaining years. (at disanchoring n. at Derivatives)]. a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) I. 346 Miserable feature of London life, needing to be dis-anchored every year, to be made comparatively a nomadic, quasi-Calmuck life. 1876 J. J. G. Wilkinson On Human Sci. cxxii. 508 The natural senses..can become quiescent.., and an interior man usually adjoined and determined to them, be emancipated and dis-anchored. 1997 Revue Française d'Études Américaines 73 84 A self-referential world, severed, disanchored from usual associations. 2000 D. Manderson Songs without Music 171 A second phase of pluralist writing..managed to disanchor pluralism from the politics of resistance. 2011 Right Vision News (Pakistan) (Nexis) 21 Jan. This may disanchor inflation expectations and thus undermine the effectiveness of the measures implemented during the crisis. Derivatives disˈanchoring n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > a going away disanchoring1548 Exodus1623 slope1859 waying1922 society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [noun] > instance of disanchoring1548 Exodus1623 Hegira1753 1548 Acct. Ships of War 14 May (P.R.O.: SP 68/15) f. 31v There is also..iiijor great Shippes of warre of Scottland..attending the disanchoring of Tharmye to go into Scottlande. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. vi. 205 We need not dwell at too much length on the foreign journeys, disanchorings, and nomadic vicissitudes of household, which occupy his few remaining years. 1988 European Sociol. Rev. 4 173/2 Consciousness..is annihilated both by a full identification with any particular form and by a total dis-anchoring from each and all determinations. 2009 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 59 501 The disaggregation and dis-anchoring of personal identify from ascribed, hierarchical sites of belonging has significant implications. disˈanchored adj. ΚΠ 1915 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, Va.) 2 Jan. 2/1 Some mines from our fields to the eastward of the straits of Dover have become disanchored and are floating about the channel. 2011 A. Çelikkol Romances of Free Trade i. 10 Snarleyyow..epitomizes the literary capacity to imagine transnationality during the rise of free trade, specifically in the form of disanchored subjects and borderless geographies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?1473 |
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