predominantadj.n.

Brit.

/prᵻˈdɒmᵻn(ə)nt/, U.S.

/priˈdɑmən(ə)nt/,

/prəˈdɑmən(ə)nt/

Forms: 1500s predominante, 1500s predominaunt, 1500s–1600s praedominant, 1500s– predominant, 1600s predomenant (Scottish).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French predominant.

Etymology: < Middle French predominant (1372–4; French prédominant ), use as adjective of present participle of predominer predomine v. Compare post-classical Latin predominant-, predominans constituting the main or most abundant element (frequently from c1200 in British sources), Spanish predominante (1427–8), Italian predominante (1598 in Florio).

A. adj.

a. Having ascendancy, supremacy, or prevailing influence over others; superior, predominating.In early use esp. with reference to the supposed influence of bodily humours or (in Astrology) of planets (cf. predominance n. 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [adjective] > having superior or predominant authority

moreeOE

overc1175

surmontantc1400

upper1477

predominant1575

predominate1591

overswaying1601

predominated1800

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [adjective]

preponderanta1500

predominant1575

predominate1591

ascendant1634

prepollent1657

preponderate1789

predominated1800

the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [adjective] > ascendant

predominant1575

predominate1591

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus Prol. sig. Aiij^v Howbeit that ane be ay predominant, And of the laif in maist part hes maistrie.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 279 You are not ignoraunt, y^t melancholy being predominant,..moueth men to madnesse.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 29 Where the worser is predominant, Full soone the canker death eats vp that plant.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 193 Hel. The warres hath so kept you vnder, that you must needes be borne vnder Mars. Par. When he was predominant .

1622 G. de Malynes Maintenance of Free Trade iv. 81 This Valuation..is Prædominant and ouer-ruleth the Kings Valuation.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 34 Why do not the predominant Party in Parliament..make England beyond Trent another Kingdom?

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 34 Their Fears were predominant over all their Passions.

1792 M. Deverell Mary, Queen of Scots i. ii. 5 Nature's dictates are predominant.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. i. 315 After the power of the English became predominant.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. i. 24 A change which was apt to make the women's voices predominant in the chorus.

1913 ‘Sepharial’ Kabala of Numbers II. xii. 189 Suppose..that a child is born when the influence of Venus is predominant.

1982 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Sept. a15 The historic split between the Christian minority, which is economically and politically predominant, and the Moslem majority.

2000 L. De Winter & P. Dumont in K. Heidar & R. Koole Parl. Party Groups European Democracies vii. 111 In practice..the EPO [= extra-parliamentary party organization] has an important, if not predominant, say in the selection of the chairperson of the PPG [= parliamentary party group].

b. Constituting the main, most abundant, or strongest element; prevailing, preponderating.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > greater in quantity, amount, or degree > superior in amount or quantity

predominate1591

predominant1601

preponderating1611

domineering1621

overbalancing1623

preponderous1670

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 488 A third [Corinthian metal] of an equall medley and temperature, wherein a man shall not perceiue any one mettall predominant.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 182 The Equator where heat is most predominant.

1682 N. Grew Exper. Luctation ii. i. §8 in Anat. Plants 240 The predominant Salt in most Minerals, and parts of Animals, is an Alkaly.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision Ded. p. vi Those Criminal Pleasures, so fashionable and predominant in the Age we live in.

1788 A. Hamilton Federalist Papers lx. 175 The several states are in various degrees addicted to agriculture and commerce. In most, if not all of them, agriculture is predominant.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. iv. 65 Nothing could be more majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness.

1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) II. iv. i. 179 The predominant Erse dialect.

1902 C. A. Montalto de Jesus Historic Macao iv. 41 The Macanese patois..attests a predominant Malaccan element.

1955 E. Bowen World of Love i. 27 Generations of odours of baking and basting,..wrung-out cloths and lamp oil freshly predominant.

2005 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) May 64/3 In the outer part of the belt..the predominant objects are C-, P- and D-class asteroids.

†c. With of. Domineering over something; overruling. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective] > domineering or overbearing

masterfulc1390

pontificalc1440

overmasterfula1450

headya1513

imperious1529

supercilious1536

masterlya1544

termagant1546

law-like1556

masterlike1580

dictator-like1582

peremptory1590

domineering1598

burly1605

high-handed1606

pontificial1613

lording1629

overlordingc1629

pontifician1629

peremptor1630

dictatory1639

predominant1642

dictatorial1692

pontific1716

overbearing1718

dictativea1774

knock-me-down1848

imponenta1882

bossy1882

heavy-handed1883

seigneurial1970

1642 in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1703) II. vi. 49 They were so presumptuous, and predominant of his Majesties Resolutions, that they forbear not those outrages.

d. Highest in position; towering over other objects.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > high position > [adjective] > in higher position > dominating

commandinga1661

uncommanded1693

domineering1694

predominant1796

dominant1853

overlooking1898

1796 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (1797) II. xliv. 298 The Cupola of St. Peter's rises, predominant, over every object.

1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry vii. 251 Made the roofs boldly predominant.

2005 B. Yenne On Trail of Lewis & Clark 191 The company was originally known as the Sleeping Giant Brewery, named for the predominant mountain in the Big Belt Range north of Helena.

2. Heraldry. Of a tincture: covering the entire surface of a coat of arms. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1765 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry 22 When some Metal, Colour, or Fur, is spread all over the Surface or Field, such a Tincture is said to be predominant.

1910 W. A. Copinger Heraldry Simplified 31 The shield may be either one tincture or more than one; when there is one only,..such a tincture is said to be predominant.

†3. Mathematics. Designating a branch of a tree diagram containing more than half of the nodes. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1881 A. Cayley in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 4 267 Here α exceeds by 2 at least the sum of the other numbers; and the branch with α knots, or the number α, is said to be ‘predominant’.

B. n.

1. That which predominates; a prevailing influence; a predominant quality, feature, or constituent. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [noun] > that which or one who

predominant1589

predominator1654

uppermost1687

overpoise1697

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxxiii. 145 Then luckiest of the Planets were Predominants, say we.

1594 Warres Cyrus 907 Reason, my Lord, was the predominant.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. i. sig. Hiii^v You must first haue an especiall care so to weare your Hat, that it oppresse not confusedly this your Predominant or Fore-top.

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 219 The Sun..was the Predominant in Greece, and the Moon in Persia.

1890 C. L. Morgan Animal Life & Intell. 349 I venture to call the prominent quality a predominant as opposed to the isolate.

1998 Federal News Service (Nexis) 6 May Changes that have seen it [sc. the Russian economy] move from a state dominated hyperinflating economy to an economy with stable money and a predominant of Europe.

†2. spec.

a. A person's besetting sin; a sin or weakness which dominates a person's moral character. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [noun] > besetting

predominant1633

1633 W. Struther in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1871) II. Ps. xxxvi. 4 Every man's predominant is a beast of Satan's saddling and providing.

1649 Last Heavenly Speeches in W. K. Tweedie Select Biogr. (1845) I. 391 You have never cleared yourself of many predominants and bosom sins.

1699 E. West Mem. (1865) 143 I was ill employed, pursuing after my idols and predominants.

1740 Voice of Dead to Living 12 Not guarding nor wrestling against seen and known Ills, especially their Predominants.

a1770 M. Laird Mem. (1775) ix. 91 I had a new conflict to fight with Satan, and my own predominants.

b. Phonetics. In Welsh: any of a group of phonemes which displace the radical consonants in the mutation system. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1856 J. Williams tr. Anc. Gram. Edeyrn §134 Predominants..which are f, ph, ch, ng, ngh, dd, th, l, m, n, r, mh, nh, being so called because they prevail over the umbratiles, thrust them out of the sentence, and reign by their own power in their stead.

Compounds

† predominant nerve n. Botany Obsolete rare the principal vein of a leaf; esp. the midrib of the leaf of a moss.

ΚΠ

1890 Cent. Dict. at Predominant Predominant nerve, the principal or main nerve, as in the leaves of mosses.

predominant partner n. (originally) England, viewed as the most powerful of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom (now historical); (in extended use) any nation or state considered as the most influential member of an economic or political grouping.

ΚΠ

1894 Ld. Rosebery in Hansard Lords 12 Mar. 32 The noble Marquess [of Salisbury]..said that before Irish Home Rule is conceded by the Imperial Parliament England, as the predominant Member of the partnership of the Three Kingdoms, will have to be convinced of its justice and equity.]

1894 Times 14 Mar. 9/3 Lord Rosebery had practically postponed the Home Rule Bill until England, the predominant partner, had been convinced of its justice.

1904 Daily Chron. 18 Mar. 6/4 If the predominant partner theory was to be carried out in the next Government.

1920 G. P. Gooch Nationalism iii. 52 Prussia alone was strong enough to expel her rival and to take her place as the predominant partner in a close federation of German States.

1982 Hist. Jrnl. 25 124 In the 1890s..Salisbury applied the concept of the ‘predominant partner’ to the Irish question in the course of his successful campaign to defeat the second Home Rule Bill.

1996 R. Taylor Greater China & Japan v. 162 The Chinese urge consultation among all parties on an equal footing rather than decision masking by a predominant partner.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	predominant
释义	predominantadj.n. Brit. /prᵻˈdɒmᵻn(ə)nt/, U.S. /priˈdɑmən(ə)nt/, /prəˈdɑmən(ə)nt/ Forms: 1500s predominante, 1500s predominaunt, 1500s–1600s praedominant, 1500s– predominant, 1600s predomenant (Scottish). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French predominant. Etymology: < Middle French predominant (1372–4; French prédominant ), use as adjective of present participle of predominer predomine v. Compare post-classical Latin predominant-, predominans constituting the main or most abundant element (frequently from c1200 in British sources), Spanish predominante (1427–8), Italian predominante (1598 in Florio). A. adj. 1. a. Having ascendancy, supremacy, or prevailing influence over others; superior, predominating.In early use esp. with reference to the supposed influence of bodily humours or (in Astrology) of planets (cf. predominance n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > authority > [adjective] > having superior or predominant authority moreeOE overc1175 surmontantc1400 upper1477 predominant1575 predominate1591 overswaying1601 predominated1800 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [adjective] preponderanta1500 predominant1575 predominate1591 ascendant1634 prepollent1657 preponderate1789 predominated1800 the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [adjective] > ascendant predominant1575 predominate1591 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus Prol. sig. Aiij^v Howbeit that ane be ay predominant, And of the laif in maist part hes maistrie. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 279 You are not ignoraunt, y^t melancholy being predominant,..moueth men to madnesse. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 29 Where the worser is predominant, Full soone the canker death eats vp that plant. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 193 Hel. The warres hath so kept you vnder, that you must needes be borne vnder Mars. Par. When he was predominant . View more context for this quotation 1622 G. de Malynes Maintenance of Free Trade iv. 81 This Valuation..is Prædominant and ouer-ruleth the Kings Valuation. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 34 Why do not the predominant Party in Parliament..make England beyond Trent another Kingdom? 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 34 Their Fears were predominant over all their Passions. 1792 M. Deverell Mary, Queen of Scots i. ii. 5 Nature's dictates are predominant. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. i. 315 After the power of the English became predominant. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. i. 24 A change which was apt to make the women's voices predominant in the chorus. 1913 ‘Sepharial’ Kabala of Numbers II. xii. 189 Suppose..that a child is born when the influence of Venus is predominant. 1982 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Sept. a15 The historic split between the Christian minority, which is economically and politically predominant, and the Moslem majority. 2000 L. De Winter & P. Dumont in K. Heidar & R. Koole Parl. Party Groups European Democracies vii. 111 In practice..the EPO [= extra-parliamentary party organization] has an important, if not predominant, say in the selection of the chairperson of the PPG [= parliamentary party group]. b. Constituting the main, most abundant, or strongest element; prevailing, preponderating. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > greater in quantity, amount, or degree > superior in amount or quantity predominate1591 predominant1601 preponderating1611 domineering1621 overbalancing1623 preponderous1670 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 488 A third [Corinthian metal] of an equall medley and temperature, wherein a man shall not perceiue any one mettall predominant. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 182 The Equator where heat is most predominant. 1682 N. Grew Exper. Luctation ii. i. §8 in Anat. Plants 240 The predominant Salt in most Minerals, and parts of Animals, is an Alkaly. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision Ded. p. vi Those Criminal Pleasures, so fashionable and predominant in the Age we live in. 1788 A. Hamilton Federalist Papers lx. 175 The several states are in various degrees addicted to agriculture and commerce. In most, if not all of them, agriculture is predominant. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. iv. 65 Nothing could be more majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness. 1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) II. iv. i. 179 The predominant Erse dialect. 1902 C. A. Montalto de Jesus Historic Macao iv. 41 The Macanese patois..attests a predominant Malaccan element. 1955 E. Bowen World of Love i. 27 Generations of odours of baking and basting,..wrung-out cloths and lamp oil freshly predominant. 2005 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) May 64/3 In the outer part of the belt..the predominant objects are C-, P- and D-class asteroids. †c. With of. Domineering over something; overruling. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective] > domineering or overbearing masterfulc1390 pontificalc1440 overmasterfula1450 headya1513 imperious1529 supercilious1536 masterlya1544 termagant1546 law-like1556 masterlike1580 dictator-like1582 peremptory1590 domineering1598 burly1605 high-handed1606 pontificial1613 lording1629 overlordingc1629 pontifician1629 peremptor1630 dictatory1639 predominant1642 dictatorial1692 pontific1716 overbearing1718 dictativea1774 knock-me-down1848 imponenta1882 bossy1882 heavy-handed1883 seigneurial1970 1642 in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1703) II. vi. 49 They were so presumptuous, and predominant of his Majesties Resolutions, that they forbear not those outrages. d. Highest in position; towering over other objects. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > [adjective] > in higher position > dominating commandinga1661 uncommanded1693 domineering1694 predominant1796 dominant1853 overlooking1898 1796 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (1797) II. xliv. 298 The Cupola of St. Peter's rises, predominant, over every object. 1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry vii. 251 Made the roofs boldly predominant. 2005 B. Yenne On Trail of Lewis & Clark 191 The company was originally known as the Sleeping Giant Brewery, named for the predominant mountain in the Big Belt Range north of Helena. 2. Heraldry. Of a tincture: covering the entire surface of a coat of arms. Now rare. ΚΠ 1765 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry 22 When some Metal, Colour, or Fur, is spread all over the Surface or Field, such a Tincture is said to be predominant. 1910 W. A. Copinger Heraldry Simplified 31 The shield may be either one tincture or more than one; when there is one only,..such a tincture is said to be predominant. †3. Mathematics. Designating a branch of a tree diagram containing more than half of the nodes. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1881 A. Cayley in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 4 267 Here α exceeds by 2 at least the sum of the other numbers; and the branch with α knots, or the number α, is said to be ‘predominant’. B. n. 1. That which predominates; a prevailing influence; a predominant quality, feature, or constituent. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [noun] > that which or one who predominant1589 predominator1654 uppermost1687 overpoise1697 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxxiii. 145 Then luckiest of the Planets were Predominants, say we. 1594 Warres Cyrus 907 Reason, my Lord, was the predominant. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. i. sig. Hiii^v You must first haue an especiall care so to weare your Hat, that it oppresse not confusedly this your Predominant or Fore-top. View more context for this quotation a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 219 The Sun..was the Predominant in Greece, and the Moon in Persia. 1890 C. L. Morgan Animal Life & Intell. 349 I venture to call the prominent quality a predominant as opposed to the isolate. 1998 Federal News Service (Nexis) 6 May Changes that have seen it [sc. the Russian economy] move from a state dominated hyperinflating economy to an economy with stable money and a predominant of Europe. †2. spec. a. A person's besetting sin; a sin or weakness which dominates a person's moral character. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [noun] > besetting predominant1633 1633 W. Struther in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1871) II. Ps. xxxvi. 4 Every man's predominant is a beast of Satan's saddling and providing. 1649 Last Heavenly Speeches in W. K. Tweedie Select Biogr. (1845) I. 391 You have never cleared yourself of many predominants and bosom sins. 1699 E. West Mem. (1865) 143 I was ill employed, pursuing after my idols and predominants. 1740 Voice of Dead to Living 12 Not guarding nor wrestling against seen and known Ills, especially their Predominants. a1770 M. Laird Mem. (1775) ix. 91 I had a new conflict to fight with Satan, and my own predominants. b. Phonetics. In Welsh: any of a group of phonemes which displace the radical consonants in the mutation system. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1856 J. Williams tr. Anc. Gram. Edeyrn §134 Predominants..which are f, ph, ch, ng, ngh, dd, th, l, m, n, r, mh, nh, being so called because they prevail over the umbratiles, thrust them out of the sentence, and reign by their own power in their stead. Compounds † predominant nerve n. Botany Obsolete rare the principal vein of a leaf; esp. the midrib of the leaf of a moss. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. at Predominant Predominant nerve, the principal or main nerve, as in the leaves of mosses. predominant partner n. (originally) England, viewed as the most powerful of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom (now historical); (in extended use) any nation or state considered as the most influential member of an economic or political grouping. ΚΠ 1894 Ld. Rosebery in Hansard Lords 12 Mar. 32 The noble Marquess [of Salisbury]..said that before Irish Home Rule is conceded by the Imperial Parliament England, as the predominant Member of the partnership of the Three Kingdoms, will have to be convinced of its justice and equity.] 1894 Times 14 Mar. 9/3 Lord Rosebery had practically postponed the Home Rule Bill until England, the predominant partner, had been convinced of its justice. 1904 Daily Chron. 18 Mar. 6/4 If the predominant partner theory was to be carried out in the next Government. 1920 G. P. Gooch Nationalism iii. 52 Prussia alone was strong enough to expel her rival and to take her place as the predominant partner in a close federation of German States. 1982 Hist. Jrnl. 25 124 In the 1890s..Salisbury applied the concept of the ‘predominant partner’ to the Irish question in the course of his successful campaign to defeat the second Home Rule Bill. 1996 R. Taylor Greater China & Japan v. 162 The Chinese urge consultation among all parties on an equal footing rather than decision masking by a predominant partner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1575
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