单词 | oecist |
释义 | oecistn. Ancient Greek History. The founder of a colony in ancient Greece. Hence allusively: the founder of a colony in more recent times. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > other specific colonists or settlers pilgrim1630 originals1703 old settler1744 Big Knife1750 out-settler1755 provincial1756 Boer1776 freeman1791 Pilgrim Fathers1799 back-settler1809 undertaker1819 oecist1846 Argonaut1848 Canterbury pilgrim1850 poblador1850 shagroon1851 forty-niner1853 planter1858 inside squatter1881 local white1888 Minyan1928 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i. xviii. 41 The legend of the Rhodian archæologists respecting their œkist Althæmenês. 1878 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 340 The œkist of Cape Colony, Van Riebeck. 1880 Daily News 17 Dec. 5/3 The Oecist of Gilead, to give Mr. Oliphant his proper designation. 1885 J. E. Harrison Stud. Greek Art iv. 152 Megara Hyblæa in Sicily..sent for an oikist, or colony leader, from her old home, Megara in Hellas proper. 1942 Cambr. Hist. Jrnl. 7 85 Whereas the Corinthians had been invited to act as oecists to the new Syracuse,..the Acragantines and Geloans adopted Timoleon himself as their oecist. 1972 Hesperia 41 97 The latter regards the colonization of Syracuse in 733 b.c...as carried out without state planning; that is, the community did not officially designate an oekist. 1990 Amer. Hist. Rev. 95 792/2 In addition to designating or approving a site for the colony, the Delphic oracle appointed the oikist and vested him with the necessary religious authority. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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