单词 | mulism |
释义 | mulismn. rare. ΚΠ 1798 A. Seward Lett. (1811) V. 167 It was one of her little mulisms to fancy and assert that she could not understand verse. 2. The breeding of mules. In extended use: hybridism, miscegenation. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] mongrelism1598 mixture1634 half-breed1775 half-caste1798 mixed blood1817 Eurasianism1833 mongrelity1859 mulism1861 miscegenation1863 miscegenesis1880 miscegeny1887 métissage1891 half-castism1896 1861 J. H. Van Evrie Negroes & Negro Slavery 147 The fourth generation of mulattoism is as absolutely sterile as muleism. 1995 Evening Standard (Nexis) 25 Sept. 27 A useful summary of the history of racial debates..from Victorian brain-weighers to crackpot Americam theorists of ‘mulism’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1798 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。