alms-basketn.

Brit.

/ˈɑːmzˌbɑːskᵻt/,

/ˈɑːmzˌbaskᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈɑ(l)mzˌbæskət/

Forms: see alms n. and basket n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: alms n., basket n.

Etymology: < alms n. + basket n.

1. A basket from which alms are distributed, or (occasionally) in which to receive alms.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > containers for money contributions > [noun] > for poor

alms disha1378

poor man's box1549

alms-basketc1560

poor chest1612

poor boxa1637

society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > charitableness or alms-giving > that which is given in charity > receptacle for

alms disha1378

basket1535

alms-basketc1560

poor box1737

poor basket1814

c1560 T. Mowntayne in J. G. Nichols Narr. Reformation (1859) 185 Withyn a ten dayes after, the bushopes amner came yn with hys myster's awmese baskets.

1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse Epist. to Martiall sig. Aiij^v Your exhibition belike fayled you, and therfore ye thought to pick a quarrell to the almes basket.

1634 in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 42 To carry the Almes baskete for the poore of our parish.

1690 T. Brown Late Converts Exposed 32 No Meat pleases him so well as that which comes in an Alms-basket.

1775 J. Macpherson Hist. Great Brit. I. v. 264 He fed, half his time, with common felons, out of the alms-basket.

1808 C. Lamb Specimens Eng. Dramatic Poets 150 If a reverse in fortune be the thing to be personified, they [sc. playwrights] fairly bring us to the prison-grate and the alms-basket.

1852 C. M. Sedgwick New Eng. Tale & Misc. (new ed.) 379 There were two little girls there before her, eating..from an alms-basket.

1908 Catholic World Feb. 590 ‘I am but a poor brother of the Preachers crying for alms. Ow!’ he cried, as the first cudgel caught him on the arm from which his alms-basket hung.

1946 E. Radford Unusual Words 157/1 The Saxon word maund..was the name applied to an alms basket in which the lady of the manor carried bread for distribution to the poor.

2010 J. Westerson Demon's Parchment ii. 28 I do my duty and give to the queen's charities. I give my share in the alms basket.

2. figurative. Esp. in to live on the alms-basket (and variants): to depend on what may be freely taken from what others have provided, or from what is publicly available; (also literally) to live on public charity.In later use chiefly with reference to, or in echoes of, quot. 1598.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > receive poor relief

to live on the alms-basket1598

to go (also come, fall, be sent, etc.) on the parisha1637

to take collection1670

to come (also go, fall, be flung, etc.) upon the town1836

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 39 O they haue lyud long on the almsbasket of wordes.

1610 J. Boys Expos. Dominical Epist. & Gospels 183 They [sc. kings] must not altogether hang vpon the almes basket of their Counsell, but vnderstand of themselues in some measure those things which concerne their places.

1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iv. 170 That he should liue vpon the almes-basket.

a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 73 We are fed every day out of the Alms-basket of God's Providence.

1712 W. Ray Let. 24 July in S. Bownas Acct. Life, Trav., & Christian Experiences (1756) 120 We lived by the alms-basket.

1808 Monthly Mirror Nov. 277 A ponderous alms-basket of gleanings ycleped The Lounger's Common-Place Book.

1868 Edinb. Monthly Mag. Oct. 413/1 Intellectual men..who despise their fellow-men who live on the alms-basket of borrowed opinion.

1891 Harper's Mag. Oct. 754/2 Designers who have merely ‘lived in the alms basket’ of architectural forms, and whose notion of architecture consists in multiplying ‘features’.

1901 J. Smith Short Stud. xxvi. 162 Even the poorest man in Israel was bound to drink off four cups of wine that night, yea, though he lived off the alms basket.

1922 C. H. Van Tyne Causes War of Independence xiii. 350 Some of the pamphleteers had ‘lived long on the alms basket of words’.

1993 J. Bate Shakespeare & Ovid i. 34 The linguistic move that is mimicked when Holofernes and Don Armado dip into the alms-basket of words at the great feast of language in Love's Labour's Lost.

Compounds

† almsbasket man n. Obsolete = almsman n. 1.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief

almsmanOE

beadsman?1529

almswoman1584

relievant1589

almsbasket mana1634

basket-scrambler1647

pensioner1690

pensionary1753

in-pensioner1761

pauper1775

tax-eater1818

colleger1886

soup-kitchener1907

reliefer1934

a1634 J. Day Parl. Bees (Lansd. 725) f. 16 We must not come neare but stand..amongst Allmsbasket men.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	alms-basket
释义	alms-basketn. Brit. /ˈɑːmzˌbɑːskᵻt/, /ˈɑːmzˌbaskᵻt/, U.S. /ˈɑ(l)mzˌbæskət/ Forms: see alms n. and basket n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: alms n., basket n. Etymology: < alms n. + basket n. 1. A basket from which alms are distributed, or (occasionally) in which to receive alms. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > containers for money contributions > [noun] > for poor alms disha1378 poor man's box1549 alms-basketc1560 poor chest1612 poor boxa1637 society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > charitableness or alms-giving > that which is given in charity > receptacle for alms disha1378 basket1535 alms-basketc1560 poor box1737 poor basket1814 c1560 T. Mowntayne in J. G. Nichols Narr. Reformation (1859) 185 Withyn a ten dayes after, the bushopes amner came yn with hys myster's awmese baskets. 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse Epist. to Martiall sig. Aiij^v Your exhibition belike fayled you, and therfore ye thought to pick a quarrell to the almes basket. 1634 in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 42 To carry the Almes baskete for the poore of our parish. 1690 T. Brown Late Converts Exposed 32 No Meat pleases him so well as that which comes in an Alms-basket. 1775 J. Macpherson Hist. Great Brit. I. v. 264 He fed, half his time, with common felons, out of the alms-basket. 1808 C. Lamb Specimens Eng. Dramatic Poets 150 If a reverse in fortune be the thing to be personified, they [sc. playwrights] fairly bring us to the prison-grate and the alms-basket. 1852 C. M. Sedgwick New Eng. Tale & Misc. (new ed.) 379 There were two little girls there before her, eating..from an alms-basket. 1908 Catholic World Feb. 590 ‘I am but a poor brother of the Preachers crying for alms. Ow!’ he cried, as the first cudgel caught him on the arm from which his alms-basket hung. 1946 E. Radford Unusual Words 157/1 The Saxon word maund..was the name applied to an alms basket in which the lady of the manor carried bread for distribution to the poor. 2010 J. Westerson Demon's Parchment ii. 28 I do my duty and give to the queen's charities. I give my share in the alms basket. 2. figurative. Esp. in to live on the alms-basket (and variants): to depend on what may be freely taken from what others have provided, or from what is publicly available; (also literally) to live on public charity.In later use chiefly with reference to, or in echoes of, quot. 1598. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > receive poor relief to live on the alms-basket1598 to go (also come, fall, be sent, etc.) on the parisha1637 to take collection1670 to come (also go, fall, be flung, etc.) upon the town1836 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 39 O they haue lyud long on the almsbasket of wordes. View more context for this quotation 1610 J. Boys Expos. Dominical Epist. & Gospels 183 They [sc. kings] must not altogether hang vpon the almes basket of their Counsell, but vnderstand of themselues in some measure those things which concerne their places. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iv. 170 That he should liue vpon the almes-basket. a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 73 We are fed every day out of the Alms-basket of God's Providence. 1712 W. Ray Let. 24 July in S. Bownas Acct. Life, Trav., & Christian Experiences (1756) 120 We lived by the alms-basket. 1808 Monthly Mirror Nov. 277 A ponderous alms-basket of gleanings ycleped The Lounger's Common-Place Book. 1868 Edinb. Monthly Mag. Oct. 413/1 Intellectual men..who despise their fellow-men who live on the alms-basket of borrowed opinion. 1891 Harper's Mag. Oct. 754/2 Designers who have merely ‘lived in the alms basket’ of architectural forms, and whose notion of architecture consists in multiplying ‘features’. 1901 J. Smith Short Stud. xxvi. 162 Even the poorest man in Israel was bound to drink off four cups of wine that night, yea, though he lived off the alms basket. 1922 C. H. Van Tyne Causes War of Independence xiii. 350 Some of the pamphleteers had ‘lived long on the alms basket of words’. 1993 J. Bate Shakespeare & Ovid i. 34 The linguistic move that is mimicked when Holofernes and Don Armado dip into the alms-basket of words at the great feast of language in Love's Labour's Lost. Compounds † almsbasket man n. Obsolete = almsman n. 1.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief almsmanOE beadsman?1529 almswoman1584 relievant1589 almsbasket mana1634 basket-scrambler1647 pensioner1690 pensionary1753 in-pensioner1761 pauper1775 tax-eater1818 colleger1886 soup-kitchener1907 reliefer1934 a1634 J. Day Parl. Bees (Lansd. 725) f. 16 We must not come neare but stand..amongst Allmsbasket men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas alms-basket b. with noun defining the purpose, as alms-basket, clothes-basket, eel-basket, work-basket, etc. ΚΠ 1848 C. Kingsley Yeast in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 196/2 A high weir, with all its appendages of bucks and hatchways, and eel-baskets. 1863 M. L. Whately Ragged Life Egypt vii. 50 A work-basket was stocked. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice i. 2 Everywhere..hung..clothes-baskets, work-baskets, toy-baskets, market-baskets. extracted from basketn. < n.c1560 as lemmas
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alms-basketn.

Compounds

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