单词 | genitor |
释义 | genitorn. 1. A parent; esp. a male parent, a father. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > [noun] > collectively genitor1447 parentagea1513 parentdom1840 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > [noun] fatherOE sirec1250 authora1398 flesh-fathera1400 genitor1447 daddy1523 dad1533 bab1598 patera1600 dada1672 relieving officer1677 papa1681 pappy1722 baba1771 pa1773 governor1783 paw1826 fatherkin1839 pop1840 bap1842 pap1844 da1851 baba1862 puppa1885 pops1893 poppa1897 pot and pan1900 papasana1904 daddy-o1913 bapu1930 baby-father1932 abba1955 birth father1977 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 5383 Þese thre..dyuydyd þe possessyoun Of here genyturs. 1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. D.ii They..that were the wise fathers and genitours of this purgatorie, were, in my mynde, the wysest of all their generation. 1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Morall Philos. i. f. 12 I was..borne of a noble house, and of my Genitours put to the studie of Philosophye, to learne Phisycke, wherof I proceded Doctor. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed i. 75 Whosoever is generated is from him which is the genitor. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 192 In those places are found all the convenient causes of their production, namely, genitors, or Parents [etc.]. 1705 A. Dunton Wit's Exercise ci. 97 My good genitor, Thomas Dunton Senior. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 18 High genitors, unconscious did they cull Time's sweet first-fruits. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 90/2 A son, worthy of his august genitor, in happy hour is born to your Majesty. 1906 E. Untermann tr. J. Dietzgen Positive Outcome Philos. 317 Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob. But..these genitors were not genitors in the last analysis, but begotten by old Jehovah himself. 1972 J. Irving Water-method Man 21 It was a curious summer we had with my genitors. 2001 V. Finucci in V. Finucci & K. Brownlee Generation & Degeneration 6 Clorinda bears no somatic relation to her parents, in that she is white and her genitors are black. 2. Cultural Anthropology. A biological father as opposed to a man who assumes legal and social responsibility for a child not his own. Opposed to pater n.2 2b. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > [noun] > natural father genitor1930 1930 Oceania 1 42 There is an obvious physiological relationship between a woman and the child to which she gives birth. For us there is also a physiological relationship between a child and the man who is the genitor. The first of these is recognized by the Australian native, but the second is not recognized. 1949 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in M. Fortes Social Struct. 86 When, as often happens among the Nuer, the physiological father, the genitor, is a different man from the sociological father, the pater, his sons will not marry into his minimal lineage. 1963 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 14 24 We use the words genitor and pater to distinguish between the begetter of a child and its legal father. 1994 Washington Times (Nexis) 12 June b1 Merely having a genitor in society is not enough, for without a pater a child is not recognized. Derivatives geniˈtorial adj. rare of or relating to a genitor (in either sense); parental. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [adjective] parental1542 parent1646 genitorial1847 1847 T. Medwin Life Shelley I. 158 Sir Timothy was a man entertaining high notions of genitorial rights. 1969 M. Fortes Kinship & Social Order vii. 106 Recognized paternal rights would appear to flow from marital rights, not to be of a genitorial nature. 2001 D. Parkin in S. Tremayne Managing Reprod. Life p. viii An array of distinctions such as that between paternal as against genitorial rights (social versus physical fatherhood). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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