单词 | muscovian |
释义 | Muscoviann.adj. A. n. = Muscovite n.1 Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [noun] Muscovite1535 Russ1537 Russian1538 Muscovian1577 Muscoviter1650 White Russian1659 Great Russian1783 bear1804 Rooshian1838 Soviet1920 Ivan1925 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 31v The Russians and Moscouians [L. Sarmatae]. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 306 Men of weir..to help the King of Swaden aganes the Muscovianis. 1617 T. Middleton Tryumphs of Honor & Industry sig. B3 A Ruscian or Moscouian. 1655 J. Owen Vindiciæ Evangelicæ Pref. 17 The Assembly of States, was called against the Muscovians. 1814 H. H. Milman Ode Arrival Potentates in Oxf. 8 Slowly with forward front and backward tread, Sad to be barr'd the joy of fight, recede The fierce Muscovians' dark unbroken train. 1928 Sci. Monthly May 447/2 A Moscovian avoids Leningrad as a New Yorker does Philadelphia! 2009 T. Moen tr. S. Huigen Knowl. & Colonialism vii. 147 In Europe a well-established and popular tradition of typologies of European peoples existed... Spaniards were proud, Germans drank too much, the French were frivolous and ‘Muscovians’ were barbarians. B. adj. = Muscovite adj.Formerly sometimes forming compounds in which Muscovy is now the usual combining element: see Muscovy glass n. at Muscovy n. 1a, Muscovy rat n. at Muscovy n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [adjective] > Muscovy Muscovite1577 Muscovian1579 Muscovitish1622 1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 20 Your Muscouian straungers, your Scithian monsters. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 106 Casements of broad cleere Muscouian glasse. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 180 Finding the Muscovian Pilot..absolutely ignorant in the business of Navigation. 1664 E. Browne in Sir T. Browne Wks. (1836) I. 47 Mr. Gibbs gave mee a Moscovian rat's skin. 1674 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. Northern Countries 52 The pleasant Funeral formalities among the Muscovian Laplanders. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 187 Whether Muscovian ice be..harder than English ice. 1738 W. Meston On Death of Charles XII King of Sweden in Decadem Alteram 11 Lament his Fall, thou great Muscovian Czar, 'Twas he who taught thee first the Art of War. 1796 J. Cottle War in Poems 84 What the fierce Rival's of Moscovian Czar? 1819 C. Smith Nat. Hist. Birds I. 52 Ducks Muscovian, scarlet-eyed, Sail'd social with the dusky coot. 1852 T. Parker Ten Serm. Relig. (1853) v. 163 How hateful is the beastly conjunction..of Gallic Cassanova, or Moscovian Catharine. 1862 R. F. Burton City of Saints (ed. 2) iii. 197 The court-house, with its tinned Muscovian dome, at the west end of the city. 1939 Speculum 14 318 They now..joined the ranks of the Moscovian boyardom. 1988 D. Dunn Northlight 3 These Muscovian furs Were linen until fire reshaped Their transient destiny. 2011 D. Kolodziejczyk Crimean Khanate & Poland-Lithuania Introd. p. xiii In 1592, when Muscovian diplomats learned about a projected alliance between Stockholm and Baghchasaray, they tried to persuade the khan that the king of Sweden was ‘poor and hungry’, unworthy of the khan's friendship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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