单词 | navigant |
释义 | † navigantn. Obsolete. rare. A navigator; a seafarer, a voyager. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > [noun] sailera1400 naviganta1527 sea-voyager1622 voyager1622 a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. B2 v Which thing is a great commoditie for the nauigants. 1553 S. Cabot in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 260 To be obtained..by humble and heartie prayer of the Nauigants. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. f. 266 v This land is new Guinea, so called of the Nauigants and Pilots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † navigantadj. Obsolete. rare. Voyaging (figurative in quots.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [adjective] > seafaring seafaringc1200 sea-trod?1624 navigantc1680 seagoing1855 c1680 in J. Smith Life, Jrnls. & Corr. S. Pepys (1841) II. 203 The Church of England is worthy of your best services, and..needs them. It has been too long navigant in a valley of tears. 1781 H. Walpole Let. to W. Cole 7 July The church navigant would be an extension of its power. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.a1527adj.c1680 |
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