单词 | morselization |
释义 | morselizationn. The action or process of dividing something (esp. land) into small portions. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [noun] > division into small pieces morcellement1848 morselization1886 1886 A. G. Warner tr. Le Play in Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 793 The chaotic..condition of the foremost nations of Europe resulted..from the ‘infinite morselization’ [Fr. morcellement infini]..of interests. 1893 19th Cent. Feb. 214 The plan..has been called in America the ‘morcelization of government’. 1955 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 15 8 The peasants often found ways, by agreement, to circumvent the worst excesses of morselization. 1983 William & Mary Q. 40 518 The operation of partile inheritance practices has been construed by advocates of the Malthusian-crisis model as contributing to land morselization. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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