单词 | domesticate |
释义 | domesticatev. 1. transitive. a. To make, or settle as, a member of a household; to cause to be at home; to naturalize. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > naturalize denize1577 denizen1577 naturalize1593 endenize1598 inhousehold1611 domesticate1750 a1639 [implied in: H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 366 Being now familiarized and domesticated evils. (at domesticated adj.)]. 1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 29 Mar. in Lett. to Son (1774) II. 159 Domesticate yourself there while you stay at Naples. 1862 E. M. Goulburn Educ. World in Replies Ess. & Rev. 9 It domesticated many of them in different parts of the heathen world. 1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer vii. 97 An element in the Greek nation originally foreign, but now domesticated. b. transferred and figurative. To make to be or to feel ‘at home’; to familiarize. ΚΠ 1841 R. W. Emerson Art in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 364 I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. v. 179 The mental faculties of one people are domesticated, as it were, into the ways of thought of another. 2. To make domestic; to attach to home and its duties. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > attach to home domesticate1741 domesticize1834 1741 S. Richardson Lett. Important Occas. cxli. 187 Childbed matronizes the giddiest Spirits..it domesticates her, as I may say. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VIII. xl. 169 A circumstance which generally lowers the spirits of the Ladies, and domesticates them. 1863 M. A. Power Arabian Days & Nights 130 [They] easily become domesticated (as lady-companions and housekeepers now describe themselves in advertisements to be). 1895 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 2/3 The efforts which are being made to domesticate the teaching. 3. To accustom (an animal) to live under the care and near the habitations of man; to tame or bring under control; transferred to civilize. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > tame or train temec1000 tamec1315 faite1362 daunt1377 afaitea1393 reclaima1393 chastisec1400 makea1425 meekc1429 break1474 enter1490 train?1532 law1534 dressc1540 meeken1591 correct1594 subjugate1595 cicure1599 unwild1605 cicurate1606 mancipate1623 familiarize1634 domesticate1641 gentle1651 domesticize1656 civilize1721 educate1760 domiciliate1782 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 145 Ireland, where the wisedome and valour of the Duke of Yorke had domesticated a savage people. 1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 29 The first flock, which is minutely described..was perfectly domesticated. 1861 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 3) i. 18 There is hardly a tribe so barbarous, as not to have domesticated at least the dog. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence wickc897 telda1325 buildc1340 nestlea1382 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 to take one's lodgec1475 reside1490 inhabit1548 to settle one's rest1562 to sit down1579 to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584 to set (up) one's rest1590 nest1591 to set down one's rest1591 roost1593 inherit1600 habituate1603 seat1612 to take up (one's) residencea1626 settle1627 pitch1629 fix1638 locate1652 to marry and settle1718 domesticate1768 domiciliate1815 to hang up one's hat1826 domicile1831 to stick one's stakes1872 homestead1877 to put down roots1882 to hang one's hat1904 localize1930 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xiii. 9 I would rather..see her married to some honest and tender hearted man, whose love might induce him to domesticate with her. 1796 S. T. Coleridge (title) To a young friend, on his proposing to domesticate with the author. 1812 P. B. Shelley in E. Dowden Life Shelley (1887) I. 230 I shall try to domesticate in some antique feudal castle. 1818 J. Keats Let. 16 Dec. (1958) II. 4 With Dilke and Brown I am quite thick—with Brown indeed I am going to domesticate—that is we〈e〉 shall keep house together. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxi. 210 He became a good deal under the influence of his uncle's advice, and domesticated in Lady Clavering's house. Draft additions June 2022 transitive. To translate (a text) in such a way that its foreign character is not retained or apparent; to remove the foreign character of (a translation). Contrasted with foreignize v. 2b. ΚΠ 1995 L. Venuti Translator's Invisibility i. 41 As Schleiermacher realized long ago, the choice of whether to domesticate or foreignize a foreign text has been allowed only to translators of literary texts. 1997 D. Robinson What is Translation? ix. 108 It is impossible..to domesticate or foreignize a translation, because domesticity and foreignism..are reader-generated effects that the translator cannot reliably or predictably control. 2021 C. E. Lamas Latino Continuum & Nineteenth-cent. Americas ii. 79 Tolón..domesticates Willard's work when he translates it. Yet he simultaneously foreignizes it by including his own observations at key turns of the narrative. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.a1639 |
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