genien.

Brit.

/ˈdʒiːni/, U.S.

/ˈdʒini/

Forms: 1600s genyes (plural), 1600s–1700s geny, 1600s– genie, 1700s genié, 1700s genii (singular), 1800s– geni.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French génie.

Etymology: < French génie (see genius n.).In sense 3 ultimately after Arabic jinnī jinni n. (singular noun corresponding to jinn jinn n.), on account of its phonetic similarity to the French word. In form genii perhaps influenced by genii, plural of genius n.

1. A guardian spirit; = genius n. 1a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > genius

geniusa1387

genius loci?1578

genie1611

local ghost1619

1611 I. R. tr. N. Le Jay Tocsin (title page) With the permission of the best Genie of Fraunce [Fr. Avec Permission du bon Genie de la France].

1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion ii. 53 My Conductor..informed me, that they were the Genyes [Fr. genies] of mankind.

a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 439 To these you may add the Genies of nations, provinces, cities, [etc.].

1855 H. R. Schoolcraft Information Indian Tribes U.S. V. v. 195 Some animal or bird..appears, which is fixed on as the genie, or guardian spirit.

2007 C. Hines Gateway of Gods 290 Behind the king are the guardian spirits or genies.

a. A person's characteristic disposition or inclination; (also) a great natural aptitude or ability. Cf. genius n. 6, 7. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun]

heartOE

erda1000

moodOE

i-mindOE

i-cundeOE

costc1175

lundc1175

evena1200

kinda1225

custc1275

couragec1300

the manner ofc1300

qualityc1300

talentc1330

attemperancec1374

complexionc1386

dispositiona1387

propertyc1390

naturea1393

assay1393

inclinationa1398

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proprietya1400

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makingc1400

conditionc1405

habitc1405

conceitc1425

affecta1460

ingeny1477

engine1488

stomach?1510

mind?a1513

ingine1533

affection1534

vein1536

humour?1563

natural1564

facultyc1565

concept1566

frame1567

temperature1583

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bent1587

constitution1589

composition1597

character1600

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dispose1609

selfness1611

disposure1613

composurea1616

racea1616

tempera1616

crasisc1616

directiona1639

grain1641

turn1647

complexure1648

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make1674

personality1710

tonea1751

bearing1795

liver1800

make-up1821

temperament1821

naturalness1850

selfhood1854

Wesen1854

naturel1856

sit1857

fibre1864

character structure1873

mentality1895

mindset1909

psyche1910

where it's (he's, she's) at1967

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. vi. 32 The Scholar answered, My worshipful Lord, my genie [Fr. genie] is not apt nate to that which this flagitious Nebulon saith, to excoriate the cutule of our vernacular Gallick.

1662 J. Gauden Let. 27 Mar. in C. Wordsworth Documentary Suppl. (1824) 35 Thereby drawing me, much against my genie, from a very happy privacy.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 177 He was very apt to learn, having a natural genie to good letters.

1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 292 But his genie..lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry.

1709 J. Walkinshaw Let. to Sir R. Sibbald 21 That Notion..which we ow to the great Genie of Dr. Pitcairn, and for which alone..his Name deserves to be deriv'd down to Posterity with immortal Honour.

1772 W. Huddesford in Life A. Wood 228 (note) in Lives Eminent Antiquaries II. His [sc. Henry Foulis'] Genie being naturally inclined to the Study of certain Parts of History.

1808 W. Scott in J. Dryden Wks. XV. 379 John Taylor..was..a man who, having a prodigious genie to poetry, wrote eighty books.

1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish vi. 46 The second Mrs. Balwhidder..had a geni for management.

1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid i. xiii. 80 My Uncle Sanny..was a man of a great mechanical genie.

1945 M. B. S. Strode-Jackson Tansy Taniard 106 Cousine Marthe tells me that you have a ‘geni’ for making perfumes and simples.

†b. A person having great natural ability or (later) exceptional intellectual power; a genius (genius n. 8). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [noun] > person of superior intellect, genius

wit1508

angel1655

eagle wit1661

genie1676

prodigya1684

genio1684

mastermind1692

genius1711

athlete1759

the brain(s)1844

master-brain1857

gaon1892

supermind1903

poindexter1981

dexter1985

1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. ii. 71 He serv'd some time under Merille the greatest Genie in the world for a Valet d'Chambré.

1687 A. Lovell tr. C. de Bergerac Comical Hist. i. 189 That way of dying is common to great Genies, and it is called, To crack with Wit.

1727 Visct. Bolingbroke Occas. Writer No. 3. 30 The greatest Genius in Writing may be exposed to share the Fate of the greatest Genié in Painting.

1879 C. Mills Attic Nights iv. 140 There are thousands o' women fitted by the nobleness o' their hearts..to share the lot o' the greatest genie that ever lived.

a. In Arabian and Muslim stories and legend: a spirit with magical or supernatural powers, and which is typically capable of assuming human or animal form; = jinn n. Now frequently: one depicted as inhabiting or trapped in a bottle, oil lamp, etc., and capable of granting wishes when summoned; cf. Aladdin's lamp n. at Aladdin n. 1.Popular depictions of genies are based chiefly on those in the Arabian Nights, in particular the malevolent spirit who is released and then tricked back into captivity in the tale of the Fisherman and the Jinni, and the genies trapped in a ring and a lamp who do the bidding of their owners in the tale of Aladdin.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > of Muhammadan demonology

jinn1684

genie1706

afrita1712

jinni1838

marid1839

1706 tr. A. Galland Arabian Nights Entertainm. I. 14 It was one of those malignant Genies [Fr. Génies], that are Mortal Enemies to Mankind, and always doing them Mischief.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lii. 180 If the plot..had been whispered by a genie, communicated by a dream, or revealed by an angel from on high.

1787 Minor 60 It is out of my power to assert whether it is a man or a beast, a genii, or a woman.

1825 W. Scott Talisman vii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 151 His single lock of hair streamed upwards from his bald and shaven head, as if some genie upheld him by it.

1870 F. E. Trollope Veronica I. iii. 19 She anticipated the appearance of a geni twenty feet high, when she rubbed her little turquoise ring.

1915 Philos. Rev. 24 1 Let us suppose that some genie, like the genie of the lamp in the story of Aladdin, were to transport the room at high velocity to some other part of the world.

1921 R. A. Nicholson Stud. Islamic Mysticism iii. 190 The genies (Jinn) are described as ethereal creatures, endowed with speech, transparent..and capable of assuming various shapes.

2003 J. Erickson Hacking 12 The genie snaps his fingers and a briefcase full of money materializes out of thin air.

b. figurative and in allusive use. Chiefly with reference to unleashing, or attempting to control, some powerful force, effect, etc. Frequently in to let the genie out of the bottle, to put the genie back in the bottle, and variants.

ΚΠ

1850 W. Beck Personal Adventures Late War Independent Hungary II. xv. 280 The magic of science has placed at our service a geni more mighty than ever followed the talismans of Eastern fable.

1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 119 His law..had unbound the hands of the horrible genie of civil murder.

1897 Outlook 5 June 287/2 Having let the genie out of the bottle, the Powers are now engaged in the difficult task of inducing him to go back again.

1919 Education Nov. 136 Culture..is too spirited to be embedded in substantial rules; you cannot shut the genie in the bottle.

1974 Economist 21 Dec. 26/3 Chairman Mao has formally ordered his revolutionary genie back into the bottle.

1988 D. Miller in S. Mendus Justifying Toleration 249 It is tempting to try to keep this particular genie very tightly stoppered up.

2005 Time 1 Aug. 52/2 Nobody thinks the gambling genie can be put back in the bottle.

c. A person likened to a genie in being noted for his or her talent within a certain sphere, or ability to perform difficult or seemingly magical acts.Frequently with preceding word specifying the sphere at which the person excels.

ΚΠ

1959 Marion (Ohio) Star 10 Mar. 8/5 (advt.) We'd like to help you become your own financial ‘genie’.

1969 Time 12 Sept. 78 Much of the credit for the Cinderella publishing story goes to Robert Gottlieb, then the editorial genie in residence at Simon & Schuster.

1987 Gourmet Apr. 37/1 The placement of this sculpture serves to introduce two amazing models, one a cross section of the opera house and the other a magical 540-square-foot one-hundredth scale construction of the quartier around the Opéra as created by Paris' nineteenth-century urban genie, Baron Georges Haussmann.

2001 W. D. Hamilton Narrow Roads of Gene Land II. xiv. 549 We not only appreciated but slightly competed for assistance to be so carpet-carried by our department's best and most footloose computer genie, Brian.

4. With capital initial. A name between 1980 and 2012 for: any of the several awards presented annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for excellence in Canadian filmmaking; (also) a statuette presented to commemorate such an award. Also in the Genies: the ceremony at which these awards were presented. Cf. Etrog n.²Formerly known as Etrogs. In 2012 the Genies were merged with the Gemini Awards for television broadcasting, to form the Canadian Screen Awards.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > award

Academy Award1930

Oscar1934

Emmy1949

Palme d'Or1967

Etrog1968

BAFTA1976

genie1980

1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 21 Jan. 17/5 Now that an academy modelled on the American plan has been created to oversee the handling of Canadian film awards, the name of the statue itself is undergoing a change; henceforth, it will be known as the Genie.

1989 Cineaste Sept. 7/1 Neither The Fly nor The Dead Zone officially qualified as a Canadian film in terms of our Canadian film awards, the Genies, which are our equivalent of the Oscars.

1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 27 Aug. G5 Cadieux, a Genie Award nominee for John Greyson's screen adaptation of the play Lilies.

2012 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 Sept. e1 Say goodbye to the Genies and the Geminis, and get ready for a sleek and elegant new statuette.

Compounds

attributive. Designating various items of clothing associated with conventional representations of a genie (sense 3a), as genie pants, genie slippers, etc.Genies are often depicted as wearing loose-fitting trousers, slippers with a turned-up toe, and sometimes a turban.

ΚΠ

1957 Sunday Herald (Provo, Utah) 27 Jan. 19/1 Upon entering the dance each couple will receive a gold covered program in the shape of a genie shoe with a tiny bell on the toe.

1974 Poetry Northwest 16 34 She wants the Shriners minibike escort—the cornmocker tassled hats, the genie slippers, the hundred pairs of mirror Foster Grants.

1981 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post Standard 2 July When delivering a belly gram, the dancers wear red bra-like tops draped in real Egyptian or Arabian coins, sheer genie pants and a belt made of coins.

1992 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 26 Oct. a9 Her two sons, aged four and six, had been riding on a city bus with their babysitter when the younger boy noticed the driver's turban and asked ‘Why is that man wearing a genie hat?’

2008 C. Hapka Twelve Dates of Christmas 170 I'm wearing a thong under the genie pants.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	genie
释义	genien. Brit. /ˈdʒiːni/, U.S. /ˈdʒini/ Forms: 1600s genyes (plural), 1600s–1700s geny, 1600s– genie, 1700s genié, 1700s genii (singular), 1800s– geni. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French génie. Etymology: < French génie (see genius n.).In sense 3 ultimately after Arabic jinnī jinni n. (singular noun corresponding to jinn jinn n.), on account of its phonetic similarity to the French word. In form genii perhaps influenced by genii, plural of genius n. 1. A guardian spirit; = genius n. 1a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > genius geniusa1387 genius loci?1578 genie1611 local ghost1619 1611 I. R. tr. N. Le Jay Tocsin (title page) With the permission of the best Genie of Fraunce [Fr. Avec Permission du bon Genie de la France]. 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion ii. 53 My Conductor..informed me, that they were the Genyes [Fr. genies] of mankind. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 439 To these you may add the Genies of nations, provinces, cities, [etc.]. 1855 H. R. Schoolcraft Information Indian Tribes U.S. V. v. 195 Some animal or bird..appears, which is fixed on as the genie, or guardian spirit. 2007 C. Hines Gateway of Gods 290 Behind the king are the guardian spirits or genies. 2. a. A person's characteristic disposition or inclination; (also) a great natural aptitude or ability. Cf. genius n. 6, 7. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] heartOE erda1000 moodOE i-mindOE i-cundeOE costc1175 lundc1175 evena1200 kinda1225 custc1275 couragec1300 the manner ofc1300 qualityc1300 talentc1330 attemperancec1374 complexionc1386 dispositiona1387 propertyc1390 naturea1393 assay1393 inclinationa1398 gentlenessa1400 proprietya1400 habitudec1400 makingc1400 conditionc1405 habitc1405 conceitc1425 affecta1460 ingeny1477 engine1488 stomach?1510 mind?a1513 ingine1533 affection1534 vein1536 humour?1563 natural1564 facultyc1565 concept1566 frame1567 temperature1583 geniusa1586 bent1587 constitution1589 composition1597 character1600 tune1600 qualification1602 infusion1604 spirits1604 dispose1609 selfness1611 disposure1613 composurea1616 racea1616 tempera1616 crasisc1616 directiona1639 grain1641 turn1647 complexure1648 genie1653 make1674 personality1710 tonea1751 bearing1795 liver1800 make-up1821 temperament1821 naturalness1850 selfhood1854 Wesen1854 naturel1856 sit1857 fibre1864 character structure1873 mentality1895 mindset1909 psyche1910 where it's (he's, she's) at1967 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. vi. 32 The Scholar answered, My worshipful Lord, my genie [Fr. genie] is not apt nate to that which this flagitious Nebulon saith, to excoriate the cutule of our vernacular Gallick. 1662 J. Gauden Let. 27 Mar. in C. Wordsworth Documentary Suppl. (1824) 35 Thereby drawing me, much against my genie, from a very happy privacy. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 177 He was very apt to learn, having a natural genie to good letters. 1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 292 But his genie..lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry. 1709 J. Walkinshaw Let. to Sir R. Sibbald 21 That Notion..which we ow to the great Genie of Dr. Pitcairn, and for which alone..his Name deserves to be deriv'd down to Posterity with immortal Honour. 1772 W. Huddesford in Life A. Wood 228 (note) in Lives Eminent Antiquaries II. His [sc. Henry Foulis'] Genie being naturally inclined to the Study of certain Parts of History. 1808 W. Scott in J. Dryden Wks. XV. 379 John Taylor..was..a man who, having a prodigious genie to poetry, wrote eighty books. 1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish vi. 46 The second Mrs. Balwhidder..had a geni for management. 1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid i. xiii. 80 My Uncle Sanny..was a man of a great mechanical genie. 1945 M. B. S. Strode-Jackson Tansy Taniard 106 Cousine Marthe tells me that you have a ‘geni’ for making perfumes and simples. †b. A person having great natural ability or (later) exceptional intellectual power; a genius (genius n. 8). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [noun] > person of superior intellect, genius wit1508 angel1655 eagle wit1661 genie1676 prodigya1684 genio1684 mastermind1692 genius1711 athlete1759 the brain(s)1844 master-brain1857 gaon1892 supermind1903 poindexter1981 dexter1985 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. ii. 71 He serv'd some time under Merille the greatest Genie in the world for a Valet d'Chambré. 1687 A. Lovell tr. C. de Bergerac Comical Hist. i. 189 That way of dying is common to great Genies, and it is called, To crack with Wit. 1727 Visct. Bolingbroke Occas. Writer No. 3. 30 The greatest Genius in Writing may be exposed to share the Fate of the greatest Genié in Painting. 1879 C. Mills Attic Nights iv. 140 There are thousands o' women fitted by the nobleness o' their hearts..to share the lot o' the greatest genie that ever lived. 3. a. In Arabian and Muslim stories and legend: a spirit with magical or supernatural powers, and which is typically capable of assuming human or animal form; = jinn n. Now frequently: one depicted as inhabiting or trapped in a bottle, oil lamp, etc., and capable of granting wishes when summoned; cf. Aladdin's lamp n. at Aladdin n. 1.Popular depictions of genies are based chiefly on those in the Arabian Nights, in particular the malevolent spirit who is released and then tricked back into captivity in the tale of the Fisherman and the Jinni, and the genies trapped in a ring and a lamp who do the bidding of their owners in the tale of Aladdin. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > of Muhammadan demonology jinn1684 genie1706 afrita1712 jinni1838 marid1839 1706 tr. A. Galland Arabian Nights Entertainm. I. 14 It was one of those malignant Genies [Fr. Génies], that are Mortal Enemies to Mankind, and always doing them Mischief. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lii. 180 If the plot..had been whispered by a genie, communicated by a dream, or revealed by an angel from on high. 1787 Minor 60 It is out of my power to assert whether it is a man or a beast, a genii, or a woman. 1825 W. Scott Talisman vii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 151 His single lock of hair streamed upwards from his bald and shaven head, as if some genie upheld him by it. 1870 F. E. Trollope Veronica I. iii. 19 She anticipated the appearance of a geni twenty feet high, when she rubbed her little turquoise ring. 1915 Philos. Rev. 24 1 Let us suppose that some genie, like the genie of the lamp in the story of Aladdin, were to transport the room at high velocity to some other part of the world. 1921 R. A. Nicholson Stud. Islamic Mysticism iii. 190 The genies (Jinn) are described as ethereal creatures, endowed with speech, transparent..and capable of assuming various shapes. 2003 J. Erickson Hacking 12 The genie snaps his fingers and a briefcase full of money materializes out of thin air. b. figurative and in allusive use. Chiefly with reference to unleashing, or attempting to control, some powerful force, effect, etc. Frequently in to let the genie out of the bottle, to put the genie back in the bottle, and variants. ΚΠ 1850 W. Beck Personal Adventures Late War Independent Hungary II. xv. 280 The magic of science has placed at our service a geni more mighty than ever followed the talismans of Eastern fable. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 119 His law..had unbound the hands of the horrible genie of civil murder. 1897 Outlook 5 June 287/2 Having let the genie out of the bottle, the Powers are now engaged in the difficult task of inducing him to go back again. 1919 Education Nov. 136 Culture..is too spirited to be embedded in substantial rules; you cannot shut the genie in the bottle. 1974 Economist 21 Dec. 26/3 Chairman Mao has formally ordered his revolutionary genie back into the bottle. 1988 D. Miller in S. Mendus Justifying Toleration 249 It is tempting to try to keep this particular genie very tightly stoppered up. 2005 Time 1 Aug. 52/2 Nobody thinks the gambling genie can be put back in the bottle. c. A person likened to a genie in being noted for his or her talent within a certain sphere, or ability to perform difficult or seemingly magical acts.Frequently with preceding word specifying the sphere at which the person excels. ΚΠ 1959 Marion (Ohio) Star 10 Mar. 8/5 (advt.) We'd like to help you become your own financial ‘genie’. 1969 Time 12 Sept. 78 Much of the credit for the Cinderella publishing story goes to Robert Gottlieb, then the editorial genie in residence at Simon & Schuster. 1987 Gourmet Apr. 37/1 The placement of this sculpture serves to introduce two amazing models, one a cross section of the opera house and the other a magical 540-square-foot one-hundredth scale construction of the quartier around the Opéra as created by Paris' nineteenth-century urban genie, Baron Georges Haussmann. 2001 W. D. Hamilton Narrow Roads of Gene Land II. xiv. 549 We not only appreciated but slightly competed for assistance to be so carpet-carried by our department's best and most footloose computer genie, Brian. 4. With capital initial. A name between 1980 and 2012 for: any of the several awards presented annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for excellence in Canadian filmmaking; (also) a statuette presented to commemorate such an award. Also in the Genies: the ceremony at which these awards were presented. Cf. Etrog n.²Formerly known as Etrogs. In 2012 the Genies were merged with the Gemini Awards for television broadcasting, to form the Canadian Screen Awards. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > award Academy Award1930 Oscar1934 Emmy1949 Palme d'Or1967 Etrog1968 BAFTA1976 genie1980 1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 21 Jan. 17/5 Now that an academy modelled on the American plan has been created to oversee the handling of Canadian film awards, the name of the statue itself is undergoing a change; henceforth, it will be known as the Genie. 1989 Cineaste Sept. 7/1 Neither The Fly nor The Dead Zone officially qualified as a Canadian film in terms of our Canadian film awards, the Genies, which are our equivalent of the Oscars. 1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 27 Aug. G5 Cadieux, a Genie Award nominee for John Greyson's screen adaptation of the play Lilies. 2012 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 Sept. e1 Say goodbye to the Genies and the Geminis, and get ready for a sleek and elegant new statuette. Compounds attributive. Designating various items of clothing associated with conventional representations of a genie (sense 3a), as genie pants, genie slippers, etc.Genies are often depicted as wearing loose-fitting trousers, slippers with a turned-up toe, and sometimes a turban. ΚΠ 1957 Sunday Herald (Provo, Utah) 27 Jan. 19/1 Upon entering the dance each couple will receive a gold covered program in the shape of a genie shoe with a tiny bell on the toe. 1974 Poetry Northwest 16 34 She wants the Shriners minibike escort—the cornmocker tassled hats, the genie slippers, the hundred pairs of mirror Foster Grants. 1981 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post Standard 2 July When delivering a belly gram, the dancers wear red bra-like tops draped in real Egyptian or Arabian coins, sheer genie pants and a belt made of coins. 1992 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 26 Oct. a9 Her two sons, aged four and six, had been riding on a city bus with their babysitter when the younger boy noticed the driver's turban and asked ‘Why is that man wearing a genie hat?’ 2008 C. Hapka Twelve Dates of Christmas 170 I'm wearing a thong under the genie pants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1611
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