单词 | mediety |
释义 | medietyn. 1. 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. 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. 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). < n.?1440 |
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