单词 | belonging |
释义 | belongingn. I. Something which belongs to or is connected with another. Usually in plural. 1. Something which constitutes a part of another; an adjunct, appendage, etc. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > subordinate > as a contributing element appurtenance1377 appertainance1525 dependence1540 belonging1607 appertinancy1646 1607 T. Procter Worke conc. Mending High-waies sig. Cv Making of the said cawsie and high-waies with their belongings. 1612 T. Helwys Shorte Declar. Mistery Iniquity 16 That power, that Pompe, that crueltie, those Canons and Courtes with the belongings and belongers therevnto. 1833 T. Creevey in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) II. xi. 267 Col. Shaw, a belonging of Wellesley's in India of 30 years' standing. 1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 501/1 The disposal of their paternal cottage and its belongings. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 26 These are the ‘Sun-spots’, real movable belongings of the surface of the Sun. 1920 G. Arthur Life Ld. Kitchener II. xliii. 11 The farmstead and its belongings had become the Boer base of supply. 2006 S. Wood Proprietary Church in Medieval West xii. 394 John..offers the monastery..to Monte Cassino with its belongings (including two churches). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] thingeOE to-tagc12.. estrec1300 casec1325 aboutstanding1340 circumstancec1380 termsa1382 conditionc1384 befalla1492 weather1603 attendant1607 belonginga1616 circumstantial1647 incident1649 incidence1670 incidental1707 attitude1744 circs1883 the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > between persons, communities, etc. > relations belonginga1616 relationsa1622 community relations1884 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. i. 29 Thy selfe, and thy belongings Are not thine owne so proper. View more context for this quotation 1867 J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS I. p. v Such information..as he would wish..in order to understand the belongings of it. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 220 All my belongings, what is summed in life, I have submitted wholly..to your rule. 3. An item of (esp. movable) personal property, a possession, an effect. Usually with possessive adjective. a. In plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > personal or movable property > personal belongings thingc1300 geara1400 pertinencea1513 furniture1566 duds1665 equipage1716 paraphernalia1736 belonging1817 iktas1856 personalities1858 personalty1865 parapherna1876 shit1934 1817 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) I. v. 117 [They] did the honors of their belongings with the ease that we observe in Welsh cottagers. 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art Add. 234 Jewels, liveries, and other such common belongings of wealthy people. 1870 ‘A. R. Hope’ My Schoolboy Friends xii. 159 Rushing about collecting their various belongings. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood vii. 132 Among his belongings was a small-sword, for he had won some skill of fence in Edinburgh. 1979 D. Kherdian Road from Home (1980) iii. 30 We were going to be deported... We were given three days to gather together our belongings and to leave. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Sept. d5/1 She gave away most of her belongings and set off on what was to be a three-month tour of Italy. b. In singular. rare. ΚΠ 1877 Argosy Sept. 182 The Adversary in the famous piece of the ‘Chess-player’ must have been modelled from some belonging of Strahan's. 1910 S. F. Whitman Predestined ii. 186 He was like one who sees some belonging, of the most intimate associations, exposed, handled, and appraised by cynical auctioneers. 2012 A. Leira in D. G. Mayes & M. Thomson Costs of Children iii. 46 Children of pre-school age were no longer to be considered..a ‘belonging’ of their parents alone. 4. colloquial. A member of one's family, a relative. Usually with possessive adjective. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] kinc825 sibOE kindredOE sibness?a1300 kindc1325 affinity1357 cousinagea1382 cognationc1384 kinhoodc1440 kinsfolkc1450 evenkina1500 relation1502 kindsfolk1555 folks1715 cousinhood1748 loved onea1756 parentage1768 concerns1818 belonging1842 cousinry1844 cousinship1865 kinspeople1866 kinfolk1873 1842 J. Baillie Let. 6 May (1999) I. viii. 515 Mrs Baillie and our other belongings at Richmond & the Isle of Wight are all well. 1866 Sat. Rev. 24 Feb. 224/2 The rich uncle whose mission is to bring prosperity to his belongings. 1902 A. Le Feuvre Daughter of Sea xxiv. 313 If you were a sister, a belonging of mine. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon 429 He..followed his female belongings up the aisle with preternatural decorum. 1945 N. Collins London belongs to Me III. xxxix. 299 They weren't at all mouse-like, these visitors. These must be the belongings of someone of importance. II. The fact of belonging. 5. The fact of appertaining or being a part; relationship, affiliation; (now esp.) a person's membership of, and acceptance by, a group or society (cf. belong v. 4b(a), 4c). Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] yokeOE relationa1398 respecta1398 report1523 society?1545 habitude1561 conjugation1605 necessitudea1626 attinency1632 dependencea1634 belonginga1648 respectiveness1650 nexure1652 synapsis1655 relative1657 rapport1660 proportion1664 schesis1678 relationship1724 appurtenance1846 relationality1866 interosculation1883 tie-up1927 tie-in1934 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > state of being included belonginga1648 a1648 J. Godbolt Rep. Certain Cases Courts of Rec. Westm. (1652) 353 There are two manner of belongings; One belonging in course of Right, and another belonging in case of Occupation. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. i. 172 Your very belonging to signor Ordonnez is enough to prove you a youth of merit and strict propriety. 1879 W. D. Whitney Sanskrit Gram. 275 There remain, as cases of doubtful belonging: amatta, arabdha, [etc.]. 1934 W. Plomer Invaders ii. §4. 43 He had little sense of belonging, of being necessary to the world he lived in. 1958 H. Reilly Ding Dong Bell (1959) i. 16 What the child needs is a settled home, a feeling of permanence, security, of belonging. 1969 Jrnl. Relig. & Health 8 11 Such an incarnate belonging experience of being accepted in one's weakness and inadequacy carries with it, too, a growth in self-worth, and so is redeeming. 2013 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 23 June (Herald-Times ed.) (Parade section) 10/3 Within a family, children devise all sorts of strategies to increase their status and feeling of belonging. Compounds belonging-together n. (with reference to personal relationships) the state or condition of belonging together; an instance of this; cf. belongingness n. 2. [In later use frequently with reference to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, after German Zusammengehören (1957 or earlier in Heidegger), use as noun of zusammengehören to belong together (16th cent.).] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > object of perception > structure perceived as a whole > [noun] > state of belonging belonging-together1890 belonging-togetherness1910 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 337 The belonging-together of the various selves. 1939 Mind 48 247 This belonging together is the basis of ‘Gestalt’ psychology. 2003 S. A. Chambers Untimely Politics ii. 45 Heidegger suggests two ways to think about this belonging-together which constitutes the Same. belonging-togetherness n. = belonging-together n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > object of perception > structure perceived as a whole > [noun] > state of belonging belonging-together1890 belonging-togetherness1910 1910 W. Van D. Bingham Stud. in Melody (Psychol. Rev. Monogr. Suppl.) p. iv The ‘feeling of relationship’ is the experience of coherence, of ‘belonging-togetherness’. 1938 Mind 47 380 From the outset our perceptual world is a continuum organised into ‘belonging-togethernesses’. 2003 Times 8 Nov. 52/3 It [sc. communion] is..a fellowship or belonging-togetherness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). belongingadj.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] goodeOE rightOE queemlOE belonglOE behovingc1175 limplyc1200 tidefula1300 avenantc1300 mackc1330 worthy1340 hemea1350 convenientc1374 seemlya1375 shapelyc1374 ablea1382 cordant1382 meetc1385 accordable1386 accordinga1387 appurtenantc1386 pertinentc1390 accordanta1393 likea1393 setea1400 throa1400 agreeablec1425 habilec1425 suitly1426 competentc1430 suiting1431 fitc1440 proportionablec1443 justc1450 congruent?a1475 cordinga1475 congruec1475 afferant1480 belonging1483 cordable1485 hovable1508 attainanta1513 accommodate1525 agreeing1533 respondent1533 opportunate?1541 appropriate1544 commode1549 familiar1553 apt1563 pliant1565 liable1570 sortly1570 competible1586 sortable1586 fitty1589 accommodable1592 congruable1603 affining1606 feated1606 suity1607 reputable1611 suited1613 idoneousa1615 matchable1614 suitablea1616 congruous1631 fitten1642 responsal1647 appropriated1651 adapt1658 mack-like1672 squared1698 homogeneous1708 applicable1711 unforeign1718 fitted1736 congenial1738 assorted1790 accommodatable1874 OK1925 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccccxxiijv/1 Saynt pharon sayd to saynt fyacre, My brother thys place is belongyng to me by myn owne herytage. 1534 W. Marshall tr. Erasmus Playne & Godly Expos. Commune Crede f. 106 It is nat a parte belongyng and fitte for euery man, to fyghte or dispute wt heretikes. 1583 G. Flinton Man. Prayers ii. f. 31 Whatsoeuer is for our soules health nedefull and moste belonginge to thy glorie. 1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 40 In hands better able and more belonging to manage them. 1682 Refl. Oath Allegiance 22 In a Matter most belonging to a Prince, Allegiance. 2. Appertaining, accompanying, concomitant. Now somewhat rare.Apparently not recorded in 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [adjective] collateral1377 assistant1485 coincident1567 accompanying1600 concomitant1608 comitant1614 belonginga1616 concomitaneous1661 adjoint1727 associative1812 attended1846 herewith1917 a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. ix. 61 My Noble Steed..I giue him, With all his trim belonging. a1642 R. Callis Case & Argument against Sir Ignoramus of Cambr. (1648) 35 A Mannour, to the which the Advowson of L. is belonging. 1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air §141 Sanctifying noble thought with separately distinguished loveliness of belonging sound. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 5 Sept. 4/2 Certain lands in the parish of Hawarden, with the belonging house, called the Hostel, and buildings thereon. 1908 E. H. Parker Anc. China Simplified xxix. 166 T'eng was a ‘belonging state’ of Lu. 2008 R. Lasowski et al. in T. Tolxdorff et al. Bildverarbeitung für Medizin 2008 348 Such visualization revealing the neighborhood with the belonging structures, like vessels and lesion spread. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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