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单词 portic
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porticn.

Forms: Old English 1600s–1700s portic, 1600s–1700s portick.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin porticus.
Etymology: < classical Latin porticus porticus n. Compare Old High German pforzih . Compare portico n.The word apparently became obsolete in early Middle English and was reborrowed in the 17th cent. Compare porch n.
Obsolete (rare in later use).
1. Architecture. A portico, a porch.In quot. c1175: a cell.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > porch
porticeOE
porchc1300
back porch1535
prothyrum1600
propylaeum1637
pentastich1656
propylon1830
ramada1869
storm-porch1879
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. iii. 106 Heora lichoman syndon in þære circan seolfre gesette, forðon in þone forecwedenan portic [L. porticus] ma ne meahte.
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John x. 23 Ambulabat iesus in templo in porticu salomonis : geeade se hælend in temple in portic salamones.
OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) v. 2 On gerusalem ys an mere se is genemned on ebreisc betzaida; se mere hæfð fif porticas.
c1175 (?OE) Writ of Brother Edwin (Sawyer 1428) in S. Miller Charters of New Minster, Winchester (2001) 164 Ic kyþe [þe] laford þæt nu for þreon gearan ic læig innan minan portice anbuton nontid & me atewde þær þe halga Cuthbert openlice.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 18 It hath on the outside a Portic round it... Each side of the Portick is of Fourteen foot long.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 76 A fine Mosque; whose Portick is supported by Red Marble Pillars.
1697 J. Evelyn Disc. Medals iii. 49 In them we behold with Admiration, their stupendious Amphitheatres, Theatres, Forums, Thermæ, Xysti, Portics, Naumachiæ, Hippodroms, Mausolea, and Sepulchres.
2. Ancient Greek Philosophy. Any of the Stoic philosophers who met in the colonnade in the agora of ancient Athens; (also) the school of Stoic philosophy. Cf. porch n. 2, and portico n. 1a.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Stoicism > Stoic
Stoicianc1374
stoicc1384
portic1630
Zenonian1656
1630 F. Quarles Divine Poems 382 Thou dry-brayn'd Portick, whose ahenian brest, (Transcending passion) never was opprest With griefe.
1709 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Art of Love i. (Notes) 60 Let us figure to our selves, that the Poet is not only a Gallant of the Court of Augustus, but a Philosopher of the Portick and Lyceum.
a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Study Hist. (1752) II. 277 The firmest hero of the Portic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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