Asiaticadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌeɪzɪˈatɪk/,

/ˌeɪsɪˈatɪk/,

/ˌeɪʒɪˈatɪk/,

/ˌeɪʃɪˈatɪk/, U.S.

/ˌeɪʒiˈædɪk/,

/ˌeɪziˈædɪk/

Forms: 1500s Asyatike, 1500s–1600s Asiatick, 1500s–1600s Asiaticke, 1500s–1600s Asiatik, 1500s–1600s Asiatike, 1500s–1600s Asiatique, 1600s Asiaticq, 1600s Asiaticque, 1600s Asiattique, 1600s– Asiatic.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Asiāticus.

Etymology: < classical Latin Asiāticus (adjective) of or connected with Asia or the East, especially Asia Minor, designating a florid style of oratory or an orator who uses such a style, (noun) orator who uses a florid style of oratory (Cicero), in post-classical Latin also inhabitant of Asia (5th cent. in Augustine) < Hellenistic Greek Ἀσιατικός (adjective) < ancient Greek Ἀσία (see Asian n.) + -τικός , extended form of -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier Asian n. and slightly later Asian adj., and see the note at Asian adj. 1.Compare Middle French, French asiatique (adjective) originating from Asia (1482), florid, ornamental (17th cent.), Spanish asiático (1490 as adjective, early 17th cent. as noun), Portuguese asiático (c1508 as adjective, also as noun), Italian asiatico (1554 as adjective, also as noun), and also Dutch aziatisch (early 17th cent.), German asiatisch (c1534).

A. adj.

a. Of, relating to, or belonging to Asia or its inhabitants. Now often considered offensive when applied to people.Originally with specific reference to Asia Minor (see note at Asian n.); in early use also sometimes with reference to the countries or regions lying to the east of the Mediterranean, to the ancient Roman Empire, or to the early Christian world, rather than to Asia as a discrete geographical region (cf. oriental adj. 3a).From the late 19th cent. onwards frequently with pejorative implication, in implied or explicit contrast to ideas, culture, or behaviour considered typical of Western civilization.Asian is now the more common term; see note at Asian adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > [adjective]

Asiatic1534

Asian?1556

Asiatical1577

Asiatal1615

Asiatican1621

Asian-like1850

pan-Asiatic1871

1534 tr. L. Valla Treat. Donation vnto Syluester sig. H^v Thou doste name Asya for the Asyatike prouince [L. asiatica prouincia], and Aphrike for the prouince, whiche is nere vnto the people of Getulya.

a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) i. ii. 71 Theis Asiaticq marchants whom you looke on with such contempt.

1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 32/2 Great bodies of the Asiatic troops were continually wafted over to the European side of the Hellespont.

1778 Earl of Malmesbury Let. 13 Feb. in Diaries & Corr. (1844) I. 173 Their entertainments, their apartment, and the number of their domestics, are quite Asiatic.

1857 T. De Quincey China in Titan Feb. 188/1 No Asiatic state has ever debarbarised itself.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar viii. 70 Mithridates was once more a petty Asiatic prince existing upon sufferance.

1906 H. N. Brailsford Macedonia Pref. xi There is little to choose in bloody-mindedness between any of the Balkan races—they are all what centuries of Asiatic rule have made them.

2015 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 29 Aug. The caveat to visiting this scattered Asiatic archipelago [sc. the Maldives] in the coming months is that September falls within the country's wet season.

b. Chiefly Classical History. Of oratorical or literary style: elaborate, rhythmic, and emotive, in a manner held to be characteristic of the Greeks of Asia Minor of the third to first centuries b.c. Cf. Asianic adj. 1, Asianist adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > Asiatic

Asiatic1542

Asianic1858

1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 328 As the oratoures Asiatique [L. Asiatici] wer called, Tumidi, swollen, or inflated, be cause their sorte & facion of makyng oracions, was proude, solemne, pompeous, bolde, perte, & replenyshed with dauntyng bostyng.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 971 He vsed a manner of phrase in his speeche, called Asiatik, which caried the best grace and estimation at that time, and was much like to his manners and life: for it was full of ostentation, foolishe brauerie, and vaine ambition.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Style The Ancients made a notable Distinction of Styles, into Laconic and Asiatic.

1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ii. 62 It is Asiatic prose, as the ancient critics would have said; prose somewhat barbarously rich and overloaded.

2010 Neotestamentica 44 51 The writer is following the conventions of the Asiatic or grand style.

2. Designating animals and plants native to or originating in Asia.For some of the more established compounds of this type, see Compounds.

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the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > characteristic of particular region or period

southerneOE

African1578

Asiatic1670

American1678

Creole1758

Californian1785

subalpine1808

Antarctic1835

Adelaidean1847

Arctic1876

Atlantic1876

gerontogeous1880

Cenomanian1902

Lusitanian1907

pantropic1911

pantropical1913

native1920

1670 J. Ogilby Africa 12 The African Camel far excels the Asiatick, for they travel forty or fifty days without Provender.

1694 T. R. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 276 Those Asiatick Foxes, vulgarly named by Travellers, Jakhals, or Jacals.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xii. 267 There were great numbers of tygers in the woods..they are by no means so fierce as the Asiatic or African tyger.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxviii. 443 Their leaves..in the Eastern or Asiatic Plane are palmate; and in the Occidental or Virginian, lobate.

1806 B. McMahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 606 Hardy Perennial and Biennial Fibrous Rooted Flowering Plants... Trollius asiaticus. Asiatic Globe-flower.

1863 E. Hitchcock Reminisc. Amherst Coll. iii. 95 Other interesting objects, are the skeletons of moose..and the preserved skins of the Asiatic bear and wolf, and American beavers.

1909 F. W. Unger Roosevelt's Afr. Trip ii. xxii. 240 In the Asiatic linsangs the ground color is rich buff or grayish-white, marked with oblong black patches.

1947 Time 11 Aug. 44/2 He owned three lions, several macaws, an Indian bull, a Syrian ram, assorted Asiatic wildcats, plenty of monkeys.

1971 Nature 15 Jan. 154/1 The Asiatic grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella, a gross browser on aquatic vegetation.

1982 Jrnl. Herpetol. 16 107/1 All Asiatic softshell turtles introduced into Hawaii had been referred to Trionyx sinensis.

2016 New Scientist 13 Feb. 10/2 They say they can rescue some of the world's most endangered canids from extinction, including the Ethiopian wolf and the Asiatic wild dog (or dhole).

3. U.S. Military slang. Crazy, mad, insane. Originally and chiefly in to go Asiatic. Now dated or historical.Used with reference to U.S. servicemen stationed for a long time in the Far East.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1938 Philippine Mag. Mar. 136/1 One who has looked upon the wine when it is red just a little too often, and as a result is spending his time brushing red ants off the counter pane has gone ‘Asiatic’. The same term applies to one showing such comparatively mild symptoms as the delusion that one's shipmates are always talking about him behind his back.

1962 R. McKenna Sand Pebbles 46 Holman's shipmates thought he was dim-witted, and sometimes they called him Asiatic.

2002 T. McGuane Cadence of Grass 236 We talked about the guys that couldn't take the heat and concussion and boredom and finally went Asiatic and had to be shipped home.

B. n.

A native or inhabitant of Asia. Now chiefly historical and often considered offensive.In early use with specific reference to Asia Minor.From the late 19th cent. onwards frequently with pejorative implication, in implied or explicit contrast to ideas, culture, or behaviour considered typical of Western civilization.Asian is now the more common term; see note at Asian n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > [noun]

Asiana1387

Asiatican1562

Asiatic1578

1578 N. Baxter tr. J. Calvin Lect. Prophet Ionas i. f. 19^v Both the Cilicians and al the Asiatikes [L. Asiatici homines], and Grecians also, and on the other side, the Syrians knewe, what thing the Israelites vaunted of, euen that the true God appeared vnto theyr father Abraham.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 347 Such are the fanatick Dogmataes of the Alcoran, credited by most Asiaticks.

1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. ii. 37 The Asiatics brought with them into the north, a degree of luxury and magnificence, which were before unknown there.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 473 These Greeks have long ago been changed into Asiatics.

1901 R. Kipling Kim xi. 264 A very few white people, but many Asiatics, can throw themselves into a mazement as it were by repeating their own names over and over again to themselves.

2010 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 Apr. 21 The passage of the Immigration Restriction Act and the ruse of a dictation test were aimed at barring all Asiatics from migrating to the new Commonwealth of Australia.

Compounds

Asiatic cholera n. now chiefly historical the acute infectious diarrhoeal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae (= cholera n. 4); esp. the pandemic of this disease which originated in South Asia in 1827.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > cholera

cholera1382

felony1578

mordisheen1598

mort-de-chien1780

cholera1807

Asiatic cholera1827

cholera typhoid1850

pantoganglitis1857

1827 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 27 321 In proof of the soundness of this view, he appeals to the stools of persons dying under Asiatic cholera.

1913 A. J. Nunnamaker & C. O. Dhonau Hygiene & Sanitary Sci. vii. 97 Cholera is often called Asiatic cholera on account of its home in India, to distinguish it from cholera nostras, cholera morbus, and other forms of noncommunicable affections with choleric symptoms.

2013 Ireland's Own 12 Apr. 4/2 In 1832, when Asiatic cholera hit Cork, Father Mathew displayed amazing courage and devotion.

Asiatic cheetah n. a cheetah of the subspecies Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, members of which have a relatively short coat and mane.The Asiatic cheetah was formerly found across India, the Near East, and Arabian peninsula, but currently survives only in Iran.

[After German asiatischer Gepard (1845 or earlier).]

ΚΠ

1895 tr. R. Schmidtlein Brehm's Life Animals 135/2 The Asiatic Cheetah is very slender, and has much longer limbs than the Cats proper.

1926 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Nov. 757/2 Though no beast seems more untamable than our own wild cat, the Asiatic cheetah and caracal and the African serval have all..been used for coursing.

2004 Wildlife Conservation Feb. 20 Glimpses of the last remaining Asiatic cheetahs in Iran.

Asiatic elephant n. the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus.

ΚΠ

1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. I. Introd. p. xxxvi. The Asiatic Elephant, for instance, often grows to be above fifteen feet high.

1895 N. S. Shaler Domesticated Animals 131 It appears..that the Asiatic elephants in a few months of captivity acquire the rules of conduct which it is necessary to impose upon them.

1966 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 30 387/2 Four female Asiatic elephants (Elephas maximus) were captured as wild juveniles in southeast Asia when they were approximately 1 year of age.

2019 Times of India (Nexis) 10 Feb. More than 95% of the total Asiatic Elephant population roams in the forests of the Old Mysuru Region.

Asiatic lion n. a lion of the subspecies Panthera leo leo, members of which are typically smaller than African lions and have a less developed mane.The Asiatic lion formerly occurred across India, the Near East, and Arabian peninsula, but currently survives only in the Gir Forest in northern India.Occasionally included in the subspecies Panthera leo persica.

ΚΠ

1805 ‘D. Hughson’ London II. 256 An Asiatic Lion from Bussorah, in the Gulf of Persia; said to be less fierce than those of Africa.

1976 Amer. Scientist 64 28/2 The Gir Forest is unique as the home of the 177 remaining Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica).

2014 Times 22 Aug. 38/1 Hundreds of villagers are being forced out of their homes in central India to make way for a group of Asiatic lions.

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

单词	asiatic
释义	Asiaticadj.n. Brit. /ˌeɪzɪˈatɪk/, /ˌeɪsɪˈatɪk/, /ˌeɪʒɪˈatɪk/, /ˌeɪʃɪˈatɪk/, U.S. /ˌeɪʒiˈædɪk/, /ˌeɪziˈædɪk/ Forms: 1500s Asyatike, 1500s–1600s Asiatick, 1500s–1600s Asiaticke, 1500s–1600s Asiatik, 1500s–1600s Asiatike, 1500s–1600s Asiatique, 1600s Asiaticq, 1600s Asiaticque, 1600s Asiattique, 1600s– Asiatic. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Asiāticus. Etymology: < classical Latin Asiāticus (adjective) of or connected with Asia or the East, especially Asia Minor, designating a florid style of oratory or an orator who uses such a style, (noun) orator who uses a florid style of oratory (Cicero), in post-classical Latin also inhabitant of Asia (5th cent. in Augustine) < Hellenistic Greek Ἀσιατικός (adjective) < ancient Greek Ἀσία (see Asian n.) + -τικός , extended form of -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier Asian n. and slightly later Asian adj., and see the note at Asian adj. 1.Compare Middle French, French asiatique (adjective) originating from Asia (1482), florid, ornamental (17th cent.), Spanish asiático (1490 as adjective, early 17th cent. as noun), Portuguese asiático (c1508 as adjective, also as noun), Italian asiatico (1554 as adjective, also as noun), and also Dutch aziatisch (early 17th cent.), German asiatisch (c1534). A. adj. 1. a. Of, relating to, or belonging to Asia or its inhabitants. Now often considered offensive when applied to people.Originally with specific reference to Asia Minor (see note at Asian n.); in early use also sometimes with reference to the countries or regions lying to the east of the Mediterranean, to the ancient Roman Empire, or to the early Christian world, rather than to Asia as a discrete geographical region (cf. oriental adj. 3a).From the late 19th cent. onwards frequently with pejorative implication, in implied or explicit contrast to ideas, culture, or behaviour considered typical of Western civilization.Asian is now the more common term; see note at Asian adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > [adjective] Asiatic1534 Asian?1556 Asiatical1577 Asiatal1615 Asiatican1621 Asian-like1850 pan-Asiatic1871 1534 tr. L. Valla Treat. Donation vnto Syluester sig. H^v Thou doste name Asya for the Asyatike prouince [L. asiatica prouincia], and Aphrike for the prouince, whiche is nere vnto the people of Getulya. a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) i. ii. 71 Theis Asiaticq marchants whom you looke on with such contempt. 1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 32/2 Great bodies of the Asiatic troops were continually wafted over to the European side of the Hellespont. 1778 Earl of Malmesbury Let. 13 Feb. in Diaries & Corr. (1844) I. 173 Their entertainments, their apartment, and the number of their domestics, are quite Asiatic. 1857 T. De Quincey China in Titan Feb. 188/1 No Asiatic state has ever debarbarised itself. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar viii. 70 Mithridates was once more a petty Asiatic prince existing upon sufferance. 1906 H. N. Brailsford Macedonia Pref. xi There is little to choose in bloody-mindedness between any of the Balkan races—they are all what centuries of Asiatic rule have made them. 2015 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 29 Aug. The caveat to visiting this scattered Asiatic archipelago [sc. the Maldives] in the coming months is that September falls within the country's wet season. b. Chiefly Classical History. Of oratorical or literary style: elaborate, rhythmic, and emotive, in a manner held to be characteristic of the Greeks of Asia Minor of the third to first centuries b.c. Cf. Asianic adj. 1, Asianist adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > Asiatic Asiatic1542 Asianic1858 1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 328 As the oratoures Asiatique [L. Asiatici] wer called, Tumidi, swollen, or inflated, be cause their sorte & facion of makyng oracions, was proude, solemne, pompeous, bolde, perte, & replenyshed with dauntyng bostyng. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 971 He vsed a manner of phrase in his speeche, called Asiatik, which caried the best grace and estimation at that time, and was much like to his manners and life: for it was full of ostentation, foolishe brauerie, and vaine ambition. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Style The Ancients made a notable Distinction of Styles, into Laconic and Asiatic. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ii. 62 It is Asiatic prose, as the ancient critics would have said; prose somewhat barbarously rich and overloaded. 2010 Neotestamentica 44 51 The writer is following the conventions of the Asiatic or grand style. 2. Designating animals and plants native to or originating in Asia.For some of the more established compounds of this type, see Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > characteristic of particular region or period southerneOE African1578 Asiatic1670 American1678 Creole1758 Californian1785 subalpine1808 Antarctic1835 Adelaidean1847 Arctic1876 Atlantic1876 gerontogeous1880 Cenomanian1902 Lusitanian1907 pantropic1911 pantropical1913 native1920 1670 J. Ogilby Africa 12 The African Camel far excels the Asiatick, for they travel forty or fifty days without Provender. 1694 T. R. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 276 Those Asiatick Foxes, vulgarly named by Travellers, Jakhals, or Jacals. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xii. 267 There were great numbers of tygers in the woods..they are by no means so fierce as the Asiatic or African tyger. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxviii. 443 Their leaves..in the Eastern or Asiatic Plane are palmate; and in the Occidental or Virginian, lobate. 1806 B. McMahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 606 Hardy Perennial and Biennial Fibrous Rooted Flowering Plants... Trollius asiaticus. Asiatic Globe-flower. 1863 E. Hitchcock Reminisc. Amherst Coll. iii. 95 Other interesting objects, are the skeletons of moose..and the preserved skins of the Asiatic bear and wolf, and American beavers. 1909 F. W. Unger Roosevelt's Afr. Trip ii. xxii. 240 In the Asiatic linsangs the ground color is rich buff or grayish-white, marked with oblong black patches. 1947 Time 11 Aug. 44/2 He owned three lions, several macaws, an Indian bull, a Syrian ram, assorted Asiatic wildcats, plenty of monkeys. 1971 Nature 15 Jan. 154/1 The Asiatic grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella, a gross browser on aquatic vegetation. 1982 Jrnl. Herpetol. 16 107/1 All Asiatic softshell turtles introduced into Hawaii had been referred to Trionyx sinensis. 2016 New Scientist 13 Feb. 10/2 They say they can rescue some of the world's most endangered canids from extinction, including the Ethiopian wolf and the Asiatic wild dog (or dhole). 3. U.S. Military slang. Crazy, mad, insane. Originally and chiefly in to go Asiatic. Now dated or historical.Used with reference to U.S. servicemen stationed for a long time in the Far East. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1938 Philippine Mag. Mar. 136/1 One who has looked upon the wine when it is red just a little too often, and as a result is spending his time brushing red ants off the counter pane has gone ‘Asiatic’. The same term applies to one showing such comparatively mild symptoms as the delusion that one's shipmates are always talking about him behind his back. 1962 R. McKenna Sand Pebbles 46 Holman's shipmates thought he was dim-witted, and sometimes they called him Asiatic. 2002 T. McGuane Cadence of Grass 236 We talked about the guys that couldn't take the heat and concussion and boredom and finally went Asiatic and had to be shipped home. B. n. A native or inhabitant of Asia. Now chiefly historical and often considered offensive.In early use with specific reference to Asia Minor.From the late 19th cent. onwards frequently with pejorative implication, in implied or explicit contrast to ideas, culture, or behaviour considered typical of Western civilization.Asian is now the more common term; see note at Asian n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > [noun] Asiana1387 Asiatican1562 Asiatic1578 1578 N. Baxter tr. J. Calvin Lect. Prophet Ionas i. f. 19^v Both the Cilicians and al the Asiatikes [L. Asiatici homines], and Grecians also, and on the other side, the Syrians knewe, what thing the Israelites vaunted of, euen that the true God appeared vnto theyr father Abraham. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 347 Such are the fanatick Dogmataes of the Alcoran, credited by most Asiaticks. 1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. ii. 37 The Asiatics brought with them into the north, a degree of luxury and magnificence, which were before unknown there. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 473 These Greeks have long ago been changed into Asiatics. 1901 R. Kipling Kim xi. 264 A very few white people, but many Asiatics, can throw themselves into a mazement as it were by repeating their own names over and over again to themselves. 2010 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 Apr. 21 The passage of the Immigration Restriction Act and the ruse of a dictation test were aimed at barring all Asiatics from migrating to the new Commonwealth of Australia. Compounds Asiatic cholera n. now chiefly historical the acute infectious diarrhoeal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae (= cholera n. 4); esp. the pandemic of this disease which originated in South Asia in 1827. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > cholera cholera1382 felony1578 mordisheen1598 mort-de-chien1780 cholera1807 Asiatic cholera1827 cholera typhoid1850 pantoganglitis1857 1827 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 27 321 In proof of the soundness of this view, he appeals to the stools of persons dying under Asiatic cholera. 1913 A. J. Nunnamaker & C. O. Dhonau Hygiene & Sanitary Sci. vii. 97 Cholera is often called Asiatic cholera on account of its home in India, to distinguish it from cholera nostras, cholera morbus, and other forms of noncommunicable affections with choleric symptoms. 2013 Ireland's Own 12 Apr. 4/2 In 1832, when Asiatic cholera hit Cork, Father Mathew displayed amazing courage and devotion. Asiatic cheetah n. a cheetah of the subspecies Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, members of which have a relatively short coat and mane.The Asiatic cheetah was formerly found across India, the Near East, and Arabian peninsula, but currently survives only in Iran. [After German asiatischer Gepard (1845 or earlier).] ΚΠ 1895 tr. R. Schmidtlein Brehm's Life Animals 135/2 The Asiatic Cheetah is very slender, and has much longer limbs than the Cats proper. 1926 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Nov. 757/2 Though no beast seems more untamable than our own wild cat, the Asiatic cheetah and caracal and the African serval have all..been used for coursing. 2004 Wildlife Conservation Feb. 20 Glimpses of the last remaining Asiatic cheetahs in Iran. Asiatic elephant n. the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus. ΚΠ 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. I. Introd. p. xxxvi. The Asiatic Elephant, for instance, often grows to be above fifteen feet high. 1895 N. S. Shaler Domesticated Animals 131 It appears..that the Asiatic elephants in a few months of captivity acquire the rules of conduct which it is necessary to impose upon them. 1966 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 30 387/2 Four female Asiatic elephants (Elephas maximus) were captured as wild juveniles in southeast Asia when they were approximately 1 year of age. 2019 Times of India (Nexis) 10 Feb. More than 95% of the total Asiatic Elephant population roams in the forests of the Old Mysuru Region. Asiatic lion n. a lion of the subspecies Panthera leo leo, members of which are typically smaller than African lions and have a less developed mane.The Asiatic lion formerly occurred across India, the Near East, and Arabian peninsula, but currently survives only in the Gir Forest in northern India.Occasionally included in the subspecies Panthera leo persica. ΚΠ 1805 ‘D. Hughson’ London II. 256 An Asiatic Lion from Bussorah, in the Gulf of Persia; said to be less fierce than those of Africa. 1976 Amer. Scientist 64 28/2 The Gir Forest is unique as the home of the 177 remaining Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica). 2014 Times 22 Aug. 38/1 Hundreds of villagers are being forced out of their homes in central India to make way for a group of Asiatic lions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1534
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