| 单词 | glebe | 
| 释义 | gleben. 1.   a.  The soil of the earth, regarded as the source of vegetable products; earth, land. Occasionally  soil and glebe. Now only poetic or rhetorical. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > 			[noun]		 > soil as source of growth glebea1387 soilc1400 soil bank1955 a1387    J. Trevisa tr.  R. Higden Polychron. 		(St. John's Cambr.)	 		(1865)	 I. 397  				Þey þat this londe [Wales] Be wel lasse þan Engelonde, As good glebe is oon as other [L. par glebæ gloria]. 1398    J. Trevisa tr.  Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xiv. xliv.  		(Tollem. MS.)	  				The glebe [1535 soile] of þat mounte [Thabor] bereþ vynes, olyues, and oþer tren with frute. a1513    H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge 		(1521)	  i. ii. sig. a.vi  				The soyle and glebe, is set plentuous and commendable. 1598    T. Bastard Chrestoleros  iii. xxii. 66  				Howses by three, and seauen, and ten he raseth, To make the common gleabe, his priuate land. 1656    A. Cowley Davideis  iv. 142 in  Poems  				The fertile glebe requires no time to breed; It quickens and receives at once the Seed. 1748    J. Hervey Contempl. Night in  Medit. & Contempl. 		(ed. 4)	 II. 30  				The Frosts mellow the Soil... The rushing Rains impregnate the Glebe, and fit it for a Magazine of Plenty. 1800–24    T. Campbell Power of Russia v  				The glebe of fifty kingdoms shall be till'd To feed his dazzling, desolating train. 1841    G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lviii. 224  				The great family of North American Indians..are dying at our hands, and rendering their glebe to our possession. 1867    Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 321  				A troop of boys..pile upon the golden glebe the triumphs of the day. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > 			[noun]		 wastumc888 tiltha1100 estrea1300 madder-cropc1300 gainage1390 cropa1400 yieldingc1405 emblement1495 burden?1523 increase1535 field-ware1546 gather1555 esplees1598 husbandrya1616 glebe1660 warea1661 récolte1669 tilling1680 tillage1681 stuffa1687 growing1722 bearing1747 raccolta1748 the crops1789 plant1832 raising1857 cropping1861 1660    J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 99  				The Soil is..in som parts so fruitful, that after three years Gleab of Saffron..the Land..wil yeeld plenty.  2.   a.  A piece of cultivated land, a field. Now poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > 			[noun]		 > enclosed land or field tye832 hopea1000 fieldOE field landOE glebe1387 parka1393 closec1440 outset1506 intake1523 rout1598 fielden1610 town park1701 paddock1808 savannah1882 1387    J. Trevisa tr.  R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 335  				Þe nynþe scheef [of] everich glebe [L. de omni gleba] of Engelond he ordeyned for his owne iourneys. 1712    J. Addison Paraphr. Psalms xxiii  				When in the sultry Glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty Mountains pant. 1764    Oxford Sausage 195  				To see his Brethren [horses]..Smoak through the Glebe, or trace the destin'd Road. 1792    R. Burns Poems & Songs 		(1968)	 II. 626  				A gleib o' lan', a claut o' gear, Was left me by my Auntie, Tam. 1833    Ld. Tennyson Poems 57  				Many an..upland glebe wealthy in oil and wine.  b.  spec. A portion of land assigned to a clergyman as part of his benefice. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > land > 			[noun]		 > of cleric glebec1380 glebe-land1536 kirktown1872 1302–3    Year-bk. Edw. I (Rolls) 207  				Chose qe est une feez glebe ne poet estre jammes fraunche aumoyne.]			 c1380    J. Wyclif Wks. 		(1880)	 449  				Ȝif persouns hadden no glebe & no propre hous as eritage, þey sueden more Crist & his apostlis. 1451    in  R. Arnold Chron. 		(c1503)	 f. lxxv/2  				Prouided alwey that this acte extende not to cherches beyng in spirituel mennys handis ne to gleuis [so printed; ? read glebis] off the same. 1528–30    tr.  T. Littleton Tenures 		(new ed.)	 f. xliiii  				If a parson of a chyrch charge a glebe of his chyrch by his dede, [etc.]. 1654    T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 48  				I let out my whole Tithe and Gleab for One hundred pounds by the year. 1704    R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts  ii. x. 486  				The Laws of the Land assign to the Clergy..the Manse or House and Glebe. 1826    W. Cobbett Rural Rides in  Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 30 Sept. 30  				This parish is a rectory;..it has a glebe, and a good solid house. 1859    W. M. Thackeray Virginians v  				Virginia was a Church of England colony: the clergymen were paid by the State and glebes allotted to them. 1873    W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I.  iii. i. 118  				Investing every yard and inn, and when their wants were pressing every glebe and hall.  a.  A clod or mass of earth, ore, etc. (cf. quot. 1728). Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > 			[noun]		 > clod clouta1250 gluga1382 clotc1400 clodc1440 glebea1513 turf1607 clat1628 a1513    H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge 		(1521)	  i. xxxii. sig. l.vi  				Than this vitall glebe [the body of St. Werburge] by diuine ordinaunce Voluntary permytted naturall resolution. ?a1600						 (    R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in  J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation 		(1891)	 I. xlv. Pref. 348  				Judas Iscariot, for a gleib of geir, Betrayed his Maister lyk a traytor tod. 1625    T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe  v. l. §6  				Gold being severed from drosse or gleibs of earth often intermingled with it. 1728    E. Chambers Cycl.  				Glebe, Gleba, in Natural History, Chymistry, &c. a Clod or Piece of Earth, containing some Metal, or Mineral... The Glebes are carried to the Forges to be wash'd, purify'd, melted, &c. 1766    T. Amory Life John Buncle II. v. 140  				The glittering glebes of a gold colour found here, can be nothing else than glebes gilt with copper. 1825    T. Amory Life John Buncle 		(new ed.)	 III. 239  				It is found sometimes in glebes or clods. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > 			[noun]		 > a mineral > fragment or particle spark1562 spangle1611 glebe1731 the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > 			[noun]		 > small grain or speck of a chemical substance glebe1731 1731    J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments Explan. p. xx  				The Chymists define Salt..to be a Body fusible in the Fire, congealable again by Cold into brittle Glebes or Chrystals. 1756    C. Lucas Ess. Waters  iii. 124  				Sulphur, intermixed with glebes of galæna or lead ore. 1766    E. Delaval in  Philos. Trans. 1765 		(Royal Soc.)	 55 36 		(note)	  				Iron examined with a microscope when it first becomes rusty, shews it's surface covered with a number of pellucid vitriolic lamellæ, or glebes. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > 			[noun]		 > earthy mineral yellow earth1552 glebe1577 1577    W. Harrison Descr. Eng. 		(1878)	  iii. x.  ii. 68  				The sulphurous glebe called bitumen. 1657    R. Tomlinson tr.  J. de Renou Medicinal Materials  ii, in  Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ddd4v*  				Which [sc. Cinnabar] seems to be a purpureous glebe. 1675    E. Wilson Spadacrene Dunelmensis 42  				The Ore or Glebe of Vitriol. 1701    J. Hammond Scelera Aquarum 25  				London is situated on a Wicked Bottom of Earth, called Blue clay..This Blue Kind of Glebe..maleficates equally Air and Water. 1712    W. Oldisworth tr.  R. Bentley Note in  Horace Odes VII.  i. xxxvi. 23/1  				The old Latins gave Chalk the Name of Creta, because that sort of Glebe was imported from Crete. 1718    J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis  ii. xiv. 231  				We must consider that Clay is a mineral Glebe. Compounds  glebe-house  n. a parsonage, manse (now only in Ireland); also  †glebe-land house. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > clerical residence (general) > 			[noun]		 mansion1444 manse1534 mansion house1546 glebe-house1645 presbytère1734 presbytery1825 parochial house1829 clergy-house1865 1645    J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ  v. xvi. 22  				It lies upon the Thames, and the Glebe-land house is very large and faire. a1825    T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in  Wks. 		(1859)	 I. 38  				A glebe house and land with the other necessary appendages. 1870    Daily News 11 Feb.  				His promised Bill for affording facilities for the acquisition of glebes and glebe-houses by the different religious denominations in Ireland.   glebe-land  n. 		(also glebe-lands)	 = sense  2b   above. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > land > 			[noun]		 > of cleric glebec1380 glebe-land1536 kirktown1872 1536    Act 28 Hen. VIII c. 11 §4  				All the profites of the corne growyng uppon the same glebe landes so manured and sowen. 1633    P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts  ii. iii. sig. E4  				You may with the lease of glebe land, call'd knaues-acre, A place I would manure, requite your vassall. 1642    tr.  J. Perkins Profitable Bk. xi. §709. 309  				If a parson of a Church be seised of Glebe Land in the right of his Parsonage, or Vicarage. 1867    A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxiii. 284  				The archdeacon..had purchased a property..contiguous to the glebe-land.   glebe law  n. U.S. ΚΠ 1836    Southern Literary Messenger 2 285  				The whole history of the Glebe Law of 1802—a law the question of whose constitutionality is still undetermined.   glebe lot  n. U.S. ΚΠ 1730    in  Maryland Hist. Mag. 8 157  				Mr. John Humphreys..hath Liberty from this Vestry to remove the house he built on the Glebe Lot in the City of Annapolis. Derivatives  glebe  v. rare. transitive		 (a) to furnish (clergyman or church) with a glebe;		 (b) to set apart as a glebe;		 (c) (see quot. 1611). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > land > 			[verb (transitive)]		 > furnish cleric with land glebe1611 society > faith > artefacts > land > 			[verb (transitive)]		 > set apart land as cleric's glebe1797 1611    J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words  				Glebáre, to gleebe or breake clods of earth. 1641    B. Rudyerd Speech conc. Bishops sig. A2v  				Landlords..gleab'd them [sc. parish Churches] with some portion of land. 1797    J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIX. 329  				A great part of the common was subdivided or glebed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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