单词 | origin |
释义 | originn.adj. A. n. 1. a. The fact of being born from a particular ancestor or race; parentage, ancestry, extraction, pedigree. Also in plural. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] kinc892 strindc900 i-cundeOE bloodOE kindredOE birtha1250 strainc1275 gesta1300 offspring?a1300 lineagea1330 descentc1330 linec1330 progenya1382 generationc1384 engendrurec1390 ancestry?a1400 genealogya1400 kind?a1400 stranda1400 coming?a1425 bedc1430 descencec1443 descension1447 ligneea1450 originc1450 family1474 originala1475 extraction1477 nativityc1485 parentelea1492 stirpc1503 stem?c1550 race1563 parentage1565 brood1590 ancientry1596 descendance1599 breeding1600 descendancy1603 delineation1606 extract1631 ancestory1650 agnation1782 havage1799 engendure1867 c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 92 Arrabiens & all þa [of] þat origyne. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) f. 107 Vthir persouns of obscure origine. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvi. 32 That nature which contemnes it origin Cannot be bordered certaine in it selfe. 1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. iii. 118 And doth his noble Origine forget. 1737 R. Glover Leonidas i. 17 Their kings, who boast an origin divine. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. iii. 24 Why cannot I learn thine origin, thy rank, thy parents? 1869 J. S. Mill Subject. Women i. 34 Wealth..is actually obtained by many men of the very humblest origin. 1957 P. White Voss xiii. 372 Although the money he had made was enough to have bought him absolution of his origins, Mr Bonner had never thought to aspire to gentle birth. 1988 S. Afr. Panorama Apr. 30/1 Polish–Jewish by origin but born in South Africa, sculptor Mickey Korzennik takes pleasure in chatting to visitors. b. More generally: the act or fact of beginning, or of springing from something; beginning of existence with reference to source or cause; rise or first manifestation. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > origination or derivation originalc1425 originationc1443 offspringa1500 origin1528 descent1532 outspring1538 breeding1549 pedigree1566 exorture1578 genesis1604 edition1605 derivation1609 elementing1638 procedure1651 ingeneration1652 originacy1659 filiation1799 upgrowth1844 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 223 Þe book of þe comynge forþ of þe soule; [1432–50 the begynnenge of the saule; L. libellum de origine animæ].] 1528–9 Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes XXXIX. f. 158 [That the King and his progenitors have held the realm] fre imperiale fra the first origioun. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Peril of Idolatry ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 183 Lactantius..in his book of the Origin of Error. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 180 Yet doe I belieue the origin and comencement of his greefe, Sprung from neglected loue. View more context for this quotation 1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. e5 The Antiquity and Origine of Herauldry. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent ii. 9 The better ascertaining the Origin of Gavelkind. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 390 Man alone..bears upon his countenance the impress of a celestial origin. 1867 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 9) iii. ii. 377 The origin of evil, like every other beginning, shrouds itself in darkness. a1925 H. T. Lane Talks to Parents & Teachers (1928) 73 From the age of three..all children will wonder about their origin. 1990 Skin Diver Mar. 70/2 St. Lucia is volcanic in origin. 2. a. That from which anything originates, or is derived; source of being or existence; starting point. Now frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] welleOE mothereOE ordeOE wellspringeOE fathereOE headeOE oreOE wellspringOE rootc1175 morea1200 beginningc1200 head wella1325 sourcec1374 principlea1382 risinga1382 springinga1382 fountain14.. springerc1410 nativity?a1425 racinea1425 spring1435 headspring?a1439 seminaryc1440 originationc1443 spring wellc1450 sourdre1477 primordialc1487 naissance1490 wellhead?1492 offspringa1500 conduit-head1517 damc1540 springhead1547 principium1550 mint1555 principal1555 centre1557 head fountain1563 parentage1581 rise1589 spawna1591 fount1594 parent1597 taproot1601 origin1604 fountainhead1606 radix1607 springa1616 abundary1622 rist1622 primitive1628 primary1632 land-spring1642 extraction1655 upstart1669 progenerator1692 fontala1711 well-eye1826 first birth1838 ancestry1880 Quelle1893 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. §2. 163 What are those dolefull tunes..but offsprings of pensiue furies, and origens of more vehement melancholie fits? 1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth ii. 78 Mountains are the principal Source and Origin of Springs and Fountains. 1740 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature III. iii. 265 Negligence in this particular [sc. cleanliness] is a fault..and this fault can have no other origin than the uneasy sensation, which it excites in others. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 18 We hoped..to be able to examine the glacier to its origin. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 242 It is to the North of France..that we are to look for the true origins of our modern literature. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes viii. 102 The spreading noose hung above her head..and then, as she looked upward to detect the origin of the swishing sound of the rope, it settled about her neck. 1988 B. Chatwin Utz 19 He..studied the history of porcelain manufacture, from its origins in China. b. Anatomy and Zoology. A place from which a structure, esp. a muscle or nerve, arises, or at which it is attached; spec. the more fixed of the two points of attachment of a muscle (cf. insertion n. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > root or base rootc1225 base?c1425 basis1615 fund1636 fundus1659 root end1675 origin1692 radix1697 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 119 The very strong Ligaments..which in drawing it back towards its Origine, do fold it up. 1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1982 He says, that none have taken notice of the true Origin of this Muscle before him. 1746 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 1 The external Superficies of every Muscle, its Origin and Insertion. 1826 Lancet 16 Dec. 337/1 In describing the muscles, we make use of the words—origin and insertion: now, these are not good words to be used; we ought rather to say, the attachment of the muscles. 1851 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 5) 238 A good view of the whole extent of origin of the flexor sublimis digitorum. 1898 B. P. Colton Physiol. iv. 92 They run in the sympathetic nerve, but have their origin and center in the spinal bulb. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xix. vii. 309 The end of the muscle attached to a bone that does not move is called the origin. 1997 W. C. Ehrenfeuchter et al. in R. C. Ward Found. Osteopathic Med. lvi. 781/2 Kneading, a rhythmic, lateral stretching of a myofascial structure, in which origin and insertion are held stationary and the central portion of the structure is stretched like a bowstring. c. Mathematics. A fixed point from which measurement or motion commences; spec. (a) the point of intersection of the axes in Cartesian coordinates; (b) the pole in polar coordinates. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] pointa1398 prick1532 sign1570 punctuma1592 punct1638 mathematical point1659 origin1723 fixed point1778 lattice point1857 pole1879 point of closure1956 the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > of intersection or contact toucha1398 touchpoint1585 foot1652 contact1660 section?1677 origin1723 node1866 biflecnode1879 intersect1886 meet1893 1723 E. Stone tr. G. F. A. de l'Hospital Analytick Treat. Conick Section 5 The Parabola infinitely extends itself more and more on each Side the Axis AP, beginning from the Origin. 1873 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Differential Calculus (ed. 2) xii. §182 If the focus [of a conic] be the origin of inversion, the inverse is a curve called the Limaçon of Pascal. 1873 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Differential Calculus (ed. 2) xiv. §202 If the absolute term be wanting in the equation of a curve, it passes through the origin. 1935 A. H. G. Palmer & K. S. Snell Mechanics vi. 66 Two localised vectors are only equal if they are identical, since they must have the same origin as well as the same magnitude and direction. 1964 A. P. Robertson & W. Robertson Topol. Vector Spaces i. 16 The convex space E is metrisable if and only if it is separated and there is a countable base of neighbourhoods (of the origin). 1984 L. Solymar Lect. Electromagn. Theory (BNC) (rev. ed.) 12 We can just as well imagine that all the charge is concentrated at the origin of the coordinate system. = original adj. 2a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective] > first or prior to all others formec888 eldestc897 firstlOE originalc1350 foremosta1400 furthermost?a1400 primary?a1425 primatea1425 primea1500 arch1574 soon1591 origin1632 utter1634 premier1652 aboriginary1653 furthest1653 fontal1656 principial1699 première1768 protological1936 first-ever1955 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 217 The origine story it selfe..is written at full by Moses in Numb. 25. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † originv. Obsolete. transitive. = originate v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate or be a source of [verb (transitive)] sow971 mothera1425 author1598 origin1640 to be at the bottom of1650 principle1650 originate1653 inchoate1654 originize1657 1640 in Acta Parl. Scotl. (1816) V. 300/1 And makeing no kynd of alteratione but suche as..was origined and deryved from þe actis of the Assemblie. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 26 We must remember this Proverb was origined, whilest England and Wales were at deadly Feude. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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