单词 | indigenous |
释义 | indigenousadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Born or originating in a particular place; spec. (now often with capital initial) designating a people or group inhabiting a place before the arrival of (European) settlers or colonizers. Also with to introducing the place in question. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native people > [adjective] inbornc1000 theodiscc1000 i-cundeOE landisha1300 kindc1325 denizen1483 kindly born1483 native1488 naturally born1523 naturala1533 home-bred?1560 natural1574 home-born1577 homeling1577 natural-born1583 land-born1589 self-bred1590 self-born1597 indigene1598 land-breda1599 vernaculous1606 kindly1609 inbred1625 terrigenist1631 native-born1645 indigenous1646 indigenary1651 indigenital1656 aboriginal1698 own-born1699 indigenal1725 homegrown1737 terrigenous1769 indigenate1775 1632 M. Stanhope Cures without Care 26 Those who neighbour nearest to these waters, are an indigenous poore people, not able to step out of the roade of their laborious calling. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x. 325 Although..there bee at present swarmes of Negroes serving under the Spaniard, yet were they all transported from Africa, since the discovery of Columbus, and are not indigenous or proper natives of America. View more context for this quotation 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 523 If it were ever possible for Europeans to have humanity enough to acknowledge the indigenous tribes of the South Sea as their brethren, we might have settlements which would not be defiled with the blood of innocent nations. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IX. x. 140 The most general disease..in this district..is scrofula; not a family of most of the indigenous inhabitants of the lower ranks is free from it. 1794 tr. J. C. Gatterer in Mem. Sci. & Arts 2 35 It can scarcely be doubted that they [sc. Slavs] were a people indigenous to Europe, in the same sense in which all the other principal nations of Europe are reckoned so. 1822 J. Crawfurd Diary 7 Jan. in Jrnl. Embassy to Courts of Siam & Cochin China (1828) 28 The indigenous inhabitants of the territory of Queda, consist of..Malays, Samsams, Siamese, and Samangs. 1872 E. Rich tr. P. Marcoy Journey S. Amer. II. 584 As for the colour of these indigenous women, I am sorry that I cannot give a correct idea of it by borrowing a comparison from lilies and roses. 1923 H. H. Johnston Story of my Life xi. 270 The people indigenous to the Mlanje range were of Nyanja stock. 2021 New Yorker 8 Nov. 65/3 Modern ethnographic treatments of Indigenous communities describe an astonishing level of social plasticity. b. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the native inhabitants of a place or their language; native, vernacular; spec. (now often with capital initial) of, belonging to, or relating to a people or group inhabiting a place before the arrival of (European) settlers or colonizers. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native people > [adjective] > belonging to or used by naturallya1533 natively1590 native1779 home-brewed1802 indigenous1846 desi1885 1747 New Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. IV. 35 They call the great Island, Pe-kan, or Pakkando, which some say is the indigenous Name. 1786 J. C. Walker Hist. Mem. Irish Bards 77 We cannot find that the Bagpipe was indigenous to the Irish. To the Caledonians, we believe, they must be content to owe it. 1823 C. L. Irby & J. Mangles Trav. Egypt & Nubia, Syria & Asia Minor v. 408 The details and ornaments of these [towers], universally betray an imitation of Roman architecture, whilst at Petra they bear all the marks of a peculiar and indigenous style. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 277 They had..been passionately fond of their indigenous poetry. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xii. 579 Most of the Missionary establishments attempted the formation of an English school in connexion with their indigenous schools. 1868 F. Hall in Examiner 11 Apr. 228/3 Compositions which studiously reject all words that are not either Sanskritic or indigenous. 1884 A. P. Hill Tales Colorado Pioneers xlvi. 216 Besides the slangs indigenous to the soil, we heard strange provincialisms of every section of the United States. 1958 Eng. Stud. 39 104 The segmental sounds are almost exclusively transferred from indigenous languages of the area. 1984 L. Hanson & F. Allan Hanson Art Oceania Pref. xiii. We have made a special effort to include the literature indigenous to Oceania in the bibliography. 1994 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. m3/5 Bermudians take great pride in their indigenous architecture, most notably the limestone-built homes nestled comfortably amid the island's gently rolling contours. 2021 S. Graham-Jones Only Good Indians (Acknowledgments) 307 There's Elizabeth LaPensée's Deer Woman: a Vignette, which I picked up at the first Indigenous Comic Com. 2. Of plants, animals, natural products, etc.: originating in or belonging to a particular country or region; of native origin, production, or growth; not introduced from elsewhere. Also of a disease: originating and regularly occurring in a particular place; endemic. Often with to introducing the place in question. ΚΠ 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 497 This Creature was formerly Common with us in Ireland; and an Indigenous Animal..universally met with in all parts of the Kingdom. 1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 22 1040 Volume 4th will be employ'd wholly upon the Fish,..the Indigenous as well as Strangers, that come only at certain seasons. 1733 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Effects Air Human Bodies vii. 180 It [is] probable that it is a Disease indigenous to some Tract of Ground, and from thence propagated to other Places by Contagion. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 70 A plant indigenous only to China and Tartary. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 6 The wild crab is the only apple indigenous to this country. 1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines Introd. 5 The indigenous flora and fauna of Kukuanaland. 1911 H. R. Smith Secondary Course Animal Production 28 Turkeys are the one race of poultry indigenous to America. 1966 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Aug. 430/1 The eradication of diphtheria as an indigenous disease was well under way. 2016 Sunday World (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 3 July I was interested in seeking out some unique veggies or fruit indigenous to the island. 3. figurative. Inborn, innate; native or natural to. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] > innate or natural i-cundeeOE fleshly971 kindlyOE kindc1175 naturalc1275 kindc1390 innatea1420 nativea1425 inborn1513 innative1513 habitual1526 ingenerate1531 instincta1538 innated1545 inset1545 of one's nativity1582 inbreda1592 connatural1599 prognatec1600 ingenious1601 ingenit1604 congenite1610 connativea1618 intuitive1621 infusive1630 habituous1633 veined1633 genial1646 connatea1652 relollacean1654 relollaceous1657 relolleous1662 congenial1664 complanted1668 ingrown1670 ingenerated1677 unborrowed1704 cogenite1712 born1741 naturable1771 unacquired1793 congenerous1813 congenital1848 ingrain1852 indigenousa1864 ingenital1886 wired-in1957 1836 E. B. Browning Let. 29 Sept. in Lett. to M. R. Mitford (1983) I. 18 I cant help hoping with my own indigenous sanguineness. a1864 I. Taylor in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) Joy and hope are emotions indigenous to the human mind. 1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory II. 68 The more we appreciate what obligation means, the more shall we rest in the psychologically indigenous character of its conditions. 1945 N. Streatfeild Saplings (2002) xxi. 124 There was a faint air of truculence that was, to her, put on rather than indigenous to Tony. 2011 Human Archit. 9 44 I was able to discover that these personal values are not simply indigenous to my core self, but are instead symptomatic of the..persona my culture's myth demands. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Indigenous peoples (esp. of a particular region) considered collectively, typically as distinguished from settlers, colonizers, or their descendants. Also with capital initial. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native people > [noun] landfolkc1000 thede-folkc1275 the world > people > nations > native people > [noun] > the original inhabitants of a territory aborigine1724 1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile II. 10 There are other inhabitants still besides these Gibbertis and native blacks, whom we must not confound with the indigenous of this country. 1893 Trans. Med. & Chirurg. Faculty State of Maryland 95th Ann. Session 79 Of his fifteen years observations in Gorbersdorf,..the emigration of patients has not increased the number of cases [of tuberculosis] among the indigenous in that village. 1983 Philadelphia Inquirer (Electronic ed.) 10 Mar. a14 Which countries will be the most highly populated if the indigenous of both North and South America have their lands returned to them? 2019 Southern Highland News (Austral.) (Nexis) 12 Aug. 6 The indigenous of the north are getting little meaningful help. Compounds indigenous rights n. (now often with capital initial) the human, civil, and legal rights possessed by indigenous peoples, esp. those rights relating to the preservation, protection, or recognition of traditional lands, cultures, and ways of life.In early use perhaps not a fixed collocation. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > due recognition of indigenous peoples > specific Indianism1651 indigenous rights1858 society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > status or rights of being a citizen > position or rights of native-born naturality1518 indigenous rights1858 1858 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 7 Nov. 11/1 Mr. Bright is mistaken if he thinks that in any age of the world colonies were ever founded without some display of force, and some invasion of indigenous rights. 1957 E. H. Jacoby in B. T. Dickson Guide Bk. Res. Data Arid Zone Devel. ii. ii. 154/1 A well-balanced land policy is therefore of outstanding importance for the development of arid regions. This, however, does not mean that indigenous rights and interests in the land have to be conserved for ever or at any price. 2019 Toronto Star (Nexis) 9 Jan. a1 As Ottawa continues to fall short of upholding Indigenous rights, the emptiness of its promises of reconciliation are laid bare. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < adj.n.1632 |
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