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单词 oecist
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oecistn.

Brit. /ˈiːsɪst/, /ˈiːkɪst/, U.S. /ˈisᵻst/
Forms: 1800s– oecist, 1800s– oekist, 1800s– oikist.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek οἰκιστής.
Etymology: < ancient Greek οἰκιστής founder of a colony < οἰκίζειν to found as a colony ( < οἶκος house, dwelling (cognate with classical Latin vīcus quarter of a city, and further with Gothic weihs village: see wick n.2) + -ίζειν -ize suffix) + -ιστής -ist suffix.
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).
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