old mastern.adj.

Brit.

/ˌəʊl(d) ˈmɑːstə/,

/ˌəʊl(d) ˈmastə/, U.S.

/ˌoʊl(d) ˈmæstər/

Forms: see old adj. and master n.¹ Also with capital initial(s).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., master n.¹

Etymology: < old adj. + master n.¹With forms in massa at sense A. 1b compare massa n.

A. n.

1. Frequently with possessive adjective.

a. A man who was once a master; a former master.

ΚΠ

a1450 in F. W. Willmore Hist. Walsall (1887) 168 (MED) The olde Masters of the Gilde shall by byll indented triptite..delyvr to the newe Masters alle the money.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. f. 171 How Dorus againe returned to his old master Damætas, is altogether vnknowne.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 267 He ran away from him, or else his old master had hanged him up for his labour.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1759 I. 190 He found his old master in chambers in the Inner Temple.

1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter xviii. 221 They're tired of paying your old master's salary up at the Yard.

1909 Chatterbox 42/1 A struggle out of which the little nation came triumphant, free for ever from the yoke of her old master.

1993 N. Curry Bending of Bow 39 There's something about you puts me in mind of my old Master, Odysseus.

b. In African-American usage: a slave's master or (esp.) former master.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > master of slaves

patrona1665

patroon1671

Negro-holder1780

slave-master1822

old master1845

1845 F. Douglass Narr. Life F. Douglass ii. 8 I spent two years of my childhood on this plantation in my old master's family.

1872 S. Powers Afoot & Alone 61 Negroes everywhere..seemed to think they were not free unless they left the old master.

1949 B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore i. iii. 58 The chief protagonist and antagonist of master–slave folklore are Old Massa and Old John.

1979 Phylon 40 26 He returns [to the plantation] at the invitation of his old master, Thomas Auld.

a. A man with a long-standing reputation for some skill or art.In modern use chiefly as an extended use of sense A. 2b.

ΚΠ

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 426 This place has likewise ben famous for Lutes, made by the old Masters..most of them German Workmen.

1853 W. G. Simms Poems II. 80 I reverence these old masters—men who sung Or painted, not for love of praise or fame;..Who toil'd because they sorrow'd!

1873 W. H. C. Hosmer Later Lays & Lyrics 57 Mighty, old masters, when rapt and inspired, Never could waken such exquisite strains.

1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up x. 30 Though ceasing my methodical study of the old masters.., I have continued with increasing assiduity to try to write better.

1999 Independent on Sunday 17 Jan. (Culture section) 5/2 In the hands of an old master of the screwball comedy, this conceit would have been realised with a featherweightness of touch.

b. spec. A pre-eminent artist of the period before the modern; esp. a pre-eminent western European painter of the 13th to 18th centuries.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > painter > distinguished

Zeuxis1577

Apelles?1614

old master1696

RA1785

1696 J. Evelyn Diary 11 June (1955) V. 245 My L: Pembroke..shewed me divers rare Pictures of very many of the old & best Masters, especially that of M: Angelo..,& a large booke of the best drawings of the old Masters.

1777 Auctioneer's Catal. in F. Haskell Ephemeral Museum (2000) 4 Superb Collection of Pictures..and Capital Drawings by Old Masters.

1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee in Tales Fashionable Life II. vi. 22 I was just going to bid [for the painting] but, fortunately, the auctioneer let out that it was done by a very old master.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 145/2 As a painter of animals, Edwin Landseer far surpasses any of the old masters.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxv. 259 Who painted these things? Why, Titian..Raphael—none other than the world's idols, the ‘old masters’.

1903 S. Butler Way of All Flesh lxxxv. 409 Once a month or so that weekly always found some picture which was the finest that had been done since the old masters.

1951 Short Guide Norwich School Pictures 3 The old masters of Holland..influenced so profoundly the Norwich School.

1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 2/2 Skinheads and punks posed in the manner of aristocrats painted by the Old Masters.

c. A painting or sculpture by an old master. the Old Masters [from the name of the first exhibition in 1870, ‘Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters’] : (the name of) the annual Winter Exhibition of the Royal Academy in London (now historical).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > types of

chimney-piecea1616

master1694

study1722

studio1785

old master1824

homage1901

art mobilier1921

multimedia1962

multiple1968

installation1969

corporate art1971

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > exhibition > specific

the Old Masters1824

the Salon1875

salon des refusés1896

biennale1931

1824 J. Fisher Let. 18 Jan. in C. R. Leslie Mem. Life J. Constable (1845) viii. 130 I am shut up in lodgings here,—the walls covered with old masters.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxviii, in Writings I. 287 As a picture-dealer stares at an alleged old master.

1880 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 5 Feb. (1956) VII. 248 If you had come to town you would have liked to see..the Old Masters at the Academy but perhaps you may yet come before they are removed.

1907 E. S. Field Six-cylinder Courtship 101 Good old Tom, with..his picture-gallery full of bogus Old Masters!

1968 S. C. Hutchison Hist. Royal Acad. xiii. 141 The Old Masters Exhibition of 1879 was conceived on a much larger scale than its forerunners and occupied nine galleries.

2001 N.Y. Times 11 Feb. ii. 30/4 The Hills not only bought, sold, appraised and hunted down Old Masters but also created a lucrative sideline in repairing and restoring them.

B. adj. (attributive).

That is an old master; executed by or characteristic of an old master.

ΚΠ

1950 D. Gascoyne Vagrant 56 Though that's what this old-master lute-master opines.

1959 Times 19 Mar. 4/3 Still-life studies combining an old-master flavour with a slightly surrealist inclination.

1975 New Yorker 19 May 6/2 (advt.) Dick Wellstood, a subtle and inventive pianist, reproduces the raw material..that old-master pianists of the thirties and forties quarried.

1992 Mod. Painters Spring 16/2 Her own curls are lovingly chased by the painter in the Old Master technique that Grosz witnessed.

2001 London Rev. Bks. 22 Feb. 32/2 French stained glass and Old Master paintings of dubious provenance.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	old master
释义	old mastern.adj. Brit. /ˌəʊl(d) ˈmɑːstə/, /ˌəʊl(d) ˈmastə/, U.S. /ˌoʊl(d) ˈmæstər/ Forms: see old adj. and master n.¹ Also with capital initial(s). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., master n.¹ Etymology: < old adj. + master n.¹With forms in massa at sense A. 1b compare massa n. A. n. 1. Frequently with possessive adjective. a. A man who was once a master; a former master. ΚΠ a1450 in F. W. Willmore Hist. Walsall (1887) 168 (MED) The olde Masters of the Gilde shall by byll indented triptite..delyvr to the newe Masters alle the money. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. f. 171 How Dorus againe returned to his old master Damætas, is altogether vnknowne. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 267 He ran away from him, or else his old master had hanged him up for his labour. View more context for this quotation 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1759 I. 190 He found his old master in chambers in the Inner Temple. 1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter xviii. 221 They're tired of paying your old master's salary up at the Yard. 1909 Chatterbox 42/1 A struggle out of which the little nation came triumphant, free for ever from the yoke of her old master. 1993 N. Curry Bending of Bow 39 There's something about you puts me in mind of my old Master, Odysseus. b. In African-American usage: a slave's master or (esp.) former master. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > master of slaves patrona1665 patroon1671 Negro-holder1780 slave-master1822 slave-master1822 old master1845 1845 F. Douglass Narr. Life F. Douglass ii. 8 I spent two years of my childhood on this plantation in my old master's family. 1872 S. Powers Afoot & Alone 61 Negroes everywhere..seemed to think they were not free unless they left the old master. 1949 B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore i. iii. 58 The chief protagonist and antagonist of master–slave folklore are Old Massa and Old John. 1979 Phylon 40 26 He returns [to the plantation] at the invitation of his old master, Thomas Auld. 2. a. A man with a long-standing reputation for some skill or art.In modern use chiefly as an extended use of sense A. 2b. ΚΠ a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 426 This place has likewise ben famous for Lutes, made by the old Masters..most of them German Workmen. 1853 W. G. Simms Poems II. 80 I reverence these old masters—men who sung Or painted, not for love of praise or fame;..Who toil'd because they sorrow'd! 1873 W. H. C. Hosmer Later Lays & Lyrics 57 Mighty, old masters, when rapt and inspired, Never could waken such exquisite strains. 1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up x. 30 Though ceasing my methodical study of the old masters.., I have continued with increasing assiduity to try to write better. 1999 Independent on Sunday 17 Jan. (Culture section) 5/2 In the hands of an old master of the screwball comedy, this conceit would have been realised with a featherweightness of touch. b. spec. A pre-eminent artist of the period before the modern; esp. a pre-eminent western European painter of the 13th to 18th centuries. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > painter > distinguished Zeuxis1577 Apelles?1614 old master1696 RA1785 1696 J. Evelyn Diary 11 June (1955) V. 245 My L: Pembroke..shewed me divers rare Pictures of very many of the old & best Masters, especially that of M: Angelo..,& a large booke of the best drawings of the old Masters. 1777 Auctioneer's Catal. in F. Haskell Ephemeral Museum (2000) 4 Superb Collection of Pictures..and Capital Drawings by Old Masters. 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee in Tales Fashionable Life II. vi. 22 I was just going to bid [for the painting] but, fortunately, the auctioneer let out that it was done by a very old master. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 145/2 As a painter of animals, Edwin Landseer far surpasses any of the old masters. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxv. 259 Who painted these things? Why, Titian..Raphael—none other than the world's idols, the ‘old masters’. 1903 S. Butler Way of All Flesh lxxxv. 409 Once a month or so that weekly always found some picture which was the finest that had been done since the old masters. 1951 Short Guide Norwich School Pictures 3 The old masters of Holland..influenced so profoundly the Norwich School. 1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 2/2 Skinheads and punks posed in the manner of aristocrats painted by the Old Masters. c. A painting or sculpture by an old master. the Old Masters [from the name of the first exhibition in 1870, ‘Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters’] : (the name of) the annual Winter Exhibition of the Royal Academy in London (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > types of chimney-piecea1616 master1694 study1722 studio1785 old master1824 homage1901 art mobilier1921 multimedia1962 multiple1968 installation1969 corporate art1971 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > exhibition > specific the Old Masters1824 the Salon1875 salon des refusés1896 biennale1931 1824 J. Fisher Let. 18 Jan. in C. R. Leslie Mem. Life J. Constable (1845) viii. 130 I am shut up in lodgings here,—the walls covered with old masters. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxviii, in Writings I. 287 As a picture-dealer stares at an alleged old master. 1880 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 5 Feb. (1956) VII. 248 If you had come to town you would have liked to see..the Old Masters at the Academy but perhaps you may yet come before they are removed. 1907 E. S. Field Six-cylinder Courtship 101 Good old Tom, with..his picture-gallery full of bogus Old Masters! 1968 S. C. Hutchison Hist. Royal Acad. xiii. 141 The Old Masters Exhibition of 1879 was conceived on a much larger scale than its forerunners and occupied nine galleries. 2001 N.Y. Times 11 Feb. ii. 30/4 The Hills not only bought, sold, appraised and hunted down Old Masters but also created a lucrative sideline in repairing and restoring them. B. adj. (attributive). That is an old master; executed by or characteristic of an old master. ΚΠ 1950 D. Gascoyne Vagrant 56 Though that's what this old-master lute-master opines. 1959 Times 19 Mar. 4/3 Still-life studies combining an old-master flavour with a slightly surrealist inclination. 1975 New Yorker 19 May 6/2 (advt.) Dick Wellstood, a subtle and inventive pianist, reproduces the raw material..that old-master pianists of the thirties and forties quarried. 1992 Mod. Painters Spring 16/2 Her own curls are lovingly chased by the painter in the Old Master technique that Grosz witnessed. 2001 London Rev. Bks. 22 Feb. 32/2 French stained glass and Old Master paintings of dubious provenance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1450
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