单词 | manus |
释义 | manusn.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] handeOE cleche?c1225 fista1300 dallea1500 clutcha1529 gripea1555 famble1567 claw1577 golla1586 patte1586 manus1598 pickers and stealers1604 fore-foota1616 pud1654 daddle?1725 fin1785 mauley1789 feeler1825 maniple1829 flipper1832 flapper1834 grappler1852 duke1874 mitt1893 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 28v Hipochrates vnderstode the like that we do by the name of Manus.] 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 586 When he was a babe, a childe, a shrimpe, Thus did he [sc. Hercules] strangle Serpents in his Manus . View more context for this quotation 1778 C. Dibdin Poor Vulcan i i. 2 Apollo, boy, tip us your manus; How went our fortes and pianos? 1784 J. O'Keeffe Agreeable Surprise (new ed.) ii ii. 19 Her voice as a flute is dulcis; Her oculis bright, Her manus white, And soft, when I tacto, her pulse is.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > leg(s) > tarsus manus1826 protarsus1890 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxv. 681 Tarsus or Manus. This is the last portion of the leg, usually supposed to be analogous to the hand or foot of vertebrate animals. c. Zoology and Anatomy. The terminal or distal portion of the forelimb of an animal, esp. a vertebrate, homologous with or analogous to the hand. ΚΠ 1867 St. G. Mivart in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 157 299 I think it better, in a scientific treatise..[to adopt] for the anterior extremity (the carpus and all beyond it) the term manus, and for the homotypal posterior segment the term pes. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 481 In Birds..the reduction of the manus is still more marked. 1886 Athenæum 20 Feb. 268/1 The bones of the fore-arm and manus [in the chick] are longer than the corresponding segments of the leg and foot. 1933 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. ix. 184 (caption) The manus in saurischian dinosaurs. 1971 Nature 21 May 159/2 There is no doubt that the manus..was capable of grasping, but its relatively small size..would have limited its usefulness as a climbing aid. 1976 Nature 11 Mar. 136/1 Among the factors affecting the strength of a crab's master claw is the cross-sectional area of muscle in the manus (that part of the propodus behind the apposing fingers). 1990 Sci. Amer. May 44/3 The three ‘fingers’ of the wing (or manus, as it is usually called by anatomists) were evidently movable and equipped with sharp, strongly bent claws. 2. Roman Law. A form of power or authority, principally involving control over property, held in some instances by a husband over his wife; a form of marriage contract giving a husband such authority. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > authority of husband over wife hand1842 manus1854 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband > power of husband over wife hand1842 manus1854 1854 P. M. de Colquhoun Summ. Rom. Civil Law III. 664 The husband derived this jurisdiction from the Manus. 1871 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis 77 A filiusfamilias was capable of civil wedlock, but had no manus. 1941 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 6 332 After the second Punic War..the practice of marriage without Manus grew up. 1970 Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 2) 650/1 Except where accompanied by manus, marriage made no difference to the status or property rights of the wife. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Manusn.2adj. A member of a people inhabiting Manus Island. Also attributive or as adj. ΚΠ 1901 H. Schnee in Mittheilungen des Seminars f. orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin 4 iii. 231 Das Sprachgebiet de Manus-(Admiraltäts-) Inseln. In dieser Inselgruppe stehen die Sprache der Manus (Pfahlbautenbewohner) und die der Usiai (Landbewohner), letztere in Dialekte zerfallend, einander gegenüber.] 1929 M. Mead Let. 10 Jan. in Lett. from Field (1977) ii. 73 He, like all Manus boys, had been ‘paid for’ by an older male relative [to be betrothed]. 1935 R. F. Fortune Manus Relig. i. 1 Each Manus man worships his Father, not in Heaven, but in his house front rafters. 1972 J. K. McCarthy in P. Ryan Encycl. Papua & New Guinea II. 698/1 Moanus, essentially a sea-going race of travellers, traders and fishermen inhabiting some of the coast of the main island and adjacent islands. 1987 R. A. Thompson & L. S. Thompson Egoshell Afterword 330 Margaret Mead, the anthropologist who studied the Manus tribe. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11598n.2adj.1929 |
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