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单词 asiatic
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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.
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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. Hv 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.
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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.
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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.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > [noun]
Asiana1387
Asiatican1562
Asiatic1578
1578 N. Baxter tr. J. Calvin Lect. Prophet Ionas i. f. 19v 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.
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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).]
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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.
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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.
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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).
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