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单词 mediety
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medietyn.

Brit. /mᵻˈdʌɪᵻti/, U.S. /məˈdaɪᵻdi/
Forms: late Middle English medietee, 1500s medietye, 1500s–1600s medietie, 1500s–1600s 1800s– mediety.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin medietāt-, medietās.
Etymology: < classical Latin medietāt-, medietās middle point or part (Cicero: see note), intermediate state (2nd cent. a.d.), half (2nd or 3rd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also in mathematical sense (late 4th or early 5th cent.) and in legal sense (frequently from 11th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin medius middle (see medium adj.) + -etās (see -ty suffix1). With sense 4 compare Middle French médiété (1556). Classical Latin medietās also > Old French moitié moiety n. Compare jury de medietate n. at jury n. 2e, medietas linguae n.Classical Latin medietās was apparently coined by Cicero, on the model of the correspondence between societās and socius, to render ancient Greek μεσότης ‘middle’ in Plato.
1.
a. gen. A half. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > division into two equal parts > a half
halfc950
halfendealc1000
half-part1398
half-deal1399
mediety?1440
moiety1444
demi1501
demi-parcela1592
single1592
second1594
tally1647
'arf1854
half-value1903
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 288 (MED) The muste, decoct to his medietee [L. medietatem] Or thridde part, they casteth to their wyne.
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) ii. iv. sig. M ij v 140, whose medietie being 70, diuided by 14, yeldeth 5.
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. xxiv. 265 The common measure or quantitie thereof [sc. of the dose of arsenic], is the medietie of one graine of wheate.
1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xxi. 449 The medietie of the Moones globe was allwaies illustrated which is towardes the sunne.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xvi. 106 Let us consider the Occidental Mediety of Heaven.
b. Law. Either of two parts into which something (esp. an ecclesiastical benefice) is divided, a moiety. Now chiefly historical.
ΚΠ
1605 W. Willymat Physicke Ep. Ded. sig. A3v I your Honours poore incumbent of the medietie of the Rectorie of Ruskington.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 126 That good Mannour, (with the alternate gift of the Mediety of the rich Parsonage therein).
1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 89 A rectory of two medieties, served by two resident rectors.
1877 J. C. Cox Notes on Churches of Derbyshire III. 212 Sir Henry Chandos succeeded to the mediety of the Mugginton manor.
1894 A. Jessopp Random Roaming 186 This benefice consists of two medieties.
1919 Amer. Hist. Rev. 24 577 There are instances in which the presentation was to a mediety, that is to say, to a part of the parish, in which case the other mediety might or might not be in the gift of the monastery.
1944 Speculum 19 332 I believe the following schedule of his [sc. Andrew Holes'] livings is complete;..Sinecures:..Mediety of Malpas, 1431 till death.
2. An intermediate state, position, or quality. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [noun] > mean
middlingOE
middlelOE
meanc1450
neutralityc1475
moyen1484
temper?1523
mediety1573
medium1593
temperature1598
temperament1604
intermedial1605
median1635
intermediate1650
average1737
middle term1754
mesne1821
intermediacy1836
intermediary1865
1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 135 A very compounde of contrarietyes In thinges indifferent and medietyes.
1592 H. Wotton Let. 8 May in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 661 The Pope means..to carry himself as it were in a Mediety between the King of Spain, and the great Duke.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God ix. xiii. 351 In seeking a mediety betweene immortality, blessed and mortality wretched.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xiv. 26 This Caball..was reveal'd..to Solomon in a dream, wherby he came to know the beginning, mediety, and consumation of times.
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs §183 It ought to consist in a mediety, betwixt corrupt and very sound bloud.
3. Moderation. Cf. mean n.3 Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [noun]
i-metOE
hovec1175
metc1175
methec1175
measurec1225
measure?c1225
temperancea1340
methefulnessc1350
temperurec1380
mannera1382
mannernessa1382
sobernessc1384
attemperancec1386
measurablenessa1400
amesingc1400
meanheada1425
mediocrity?a1425
moderation?a1425
moderancea1460
temperancy1526
mean1531
modesty1531
temperature1536
measure-keeping1556
moderateness1571
moderature1574
sobriety1582
mediety1583
moderacy1601
temperateness1609
reserve1660
medium1693
soft pedal1899
met1932
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ii (margin) Medietie to be obserued in meats.
4. Mathematics. = mean n.3 10; (formerly also) †the quality of being a mean (obsolete). Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > mean
meanc1450
medium1573
mediety1598
mediocrity1726
arithmetical mean1798
arithmetic mean1866
root-mean-square1895
mid-range1902
1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques v. 250 Similitude or likenesse of proportions, and equality, and mediety.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1255 Three sorts of primitive Medieties there be,..to wit, Arithmeticall, Geometricall, and Harmonicall.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 376 The Tetrad is an Arithmetical Mediety, betwixt the Monad and the Hebdomad.
1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony iv. 62 Now in 4 to 2, the Mediety is 3.
1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vii. 168 These two divide Diapason, 64 to 32, by the Mediety of 45; And they divide it so near to Equality, that in Practice, they are hardly to be distinguished.
1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. x. 283 Hippasos suggested that the name harmonic be given to the third [mean],..and he defined three other medieties (means).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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