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单词 piscatory
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piscatoryn.adj.

Brit. /ˈpɪskət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpɪskəˌtɔri/
Forms: 1600s piscatorie, 1600s– piscatory.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin piscātōrius.
Etymology: < classical Latin piscātōrius of or concerned with the catching and sale of fish, that catches fish < piscātor piscator n. + -ius , suffix forming adjectives; compare -ory suffix2. Compare Middle French piscatoire of or relating to fishing (1560, rare). Compare piscatorial adj.
A. n.
A literary work portraying the lives of fishermen or anglers. Cf. pastoral n. 3a. rare.Chiefly with reference to the work of the Italian poet, Jacopo Sannazaro (1485–1530) (cf. quot. 1685 at sense B. 1).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
1631 P. Fletcher (title) Sicelides, a piscatory, as it hath beene acted in Kings Colledge, in Cambridge.
1913 Mod. Lang. Notes 28 26/2 Sannazaro..is treated in very perfunctory fashion. His relations to Virgil and to Theocritus are stated only in rather general terms, and so is his influence upon the later piscatory.
1939 T. P. Harrison Pastoral Elegy 11 The Italian poet [sc. Sannazaro] established the type by composing a series of piscatories, which alone were to define the scope of the meagre genre.
B. adj.
1. Of or relating to fishing, fishermen, or anglers; spec. designating literary works portraying the lives of fishermen or anglers, esp. in piscatory eclogue (cf. pastoral adj. 2a).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [adjective]
piscatory1633
piscatoriala1635
piscary1727
piscatorical1848
halieutic1854
1633 P. Fletcher (title) The Purple Island..together with Piscatorie Eclogs.
1685 N. Tate tr. G. Sannazaro in Poems by Several Hands 361 (title) Third piscatory eclogue.
1706 W. Walsh Let. 24 June in Lett. Mr. Pope (1735) I. 57 In looking over my old Italian Books, I find a great many Pastorals and Piscatory Plays.
1739 M. Browne Poems 1 (title) An essay in defence of piscatory eclogue.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 36. ⁋9 To substitute fishermen for shepherds, and derive his sentiments from the piscatory life.
1829 Times 6 Oct. 4/2 The rude implements necessary to carry on the piscatory occupations of its hardy and primitive sons.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vi. 163 Piscatory heirlooms and relics.
1912 H. M. Hall Idylls of Fishermen 201 (heading) Bibliography of piscatory literature.
1938 Clearfield (Pa.) Progress 30 Apr. 9/1 Much to the content of..members of the faculty with piscatory interests, fishing season opened on the first day of the Easter vacation.
1988 Herald (Australia) (Nexis) 29 Mar. (Style section) 3 We travelled to various fishing piers almost every weekend, gradually gaining piscatory expertise.
2. That catches fish; that goes fishing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [adjective]
piscatory1661
piscatorian1687
piscatorious1799
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5v Sea gull, white, cinereous, piscatorie.
1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 271 The salmon, which are..as important to the piscatory tribes as are the buffaloes to the hunters of the prairies.
1853 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 23 82 Every Malayan settlement is invariably found to be on a river, a location to be expected from a people less agricultural than maritime and piscatory.
1958 T. Wilkins Clarence King xix. 324 The Tuxedo Club.., a piscatory Four Hundred bound together in the interests of exclusive fraternity and gamy fish.
2000 Australian (Nexis) 11 Oct. b01 There is more to fishing than catching fish, says a piscatory Nicholas Shakespeare.
3. = piscine adj.
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the world > animals > fish > [adjective]
piscine1670
ichthyological1716
piscatorya1777
finny1831
ichthyic1846
piscatorial1853
ichthyal1874
a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 60 Certain animalculæ, or piscatory entities, that insinuate themselves thro' the pores into the blood.
1842 United Service Mag. 1 349 The upper part being human, the lower part, from the hips, piscatory.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities iv. 12 The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it, as sick people went to be dipped in the sea.
1935 Times 19 Jan. 10/1 An embarrassing variety of piscatory delicacies, from fines de belon to pilaff de crevettes au curry.
2002 Capitol Times (Madison, Wisconsin) (Nexis) 1 Apr. 2 a These incessant fish fries..sacrifice innocent piscatory lives.

Compounds

piscatory ring n. the signet ring worn by the Pope in his role as the successor of St Peter. rare.With reference to Matthew 4:19, in which Jesus invites the fishermen Peter and James to become fishers of men.
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1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa iii. iii. 296 The Pope dy'd.., and immediately the Piscatory Ring was broken by Cardinal Barbarino.
2000 A. Roberts in Ld. Tennyson Major Wks. 616 (note) Fishy (with a play on the fact that the Pope wears a signet ring called the ‘piscatory ring’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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