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单词 propination
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propinationn.

Brit. /ˌprɒpᵻˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌprɑpəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin propīnātiōn-, propīnātiō.
Etymology: < classical Latin propīnātiōn-, propīnātiō action of drinking to someone's health < propīnāt- , past participial stem of propīnāre propine v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare French propination action of drinking to a person's health (1660; 1532 in Middle French in sense ‘ingestion (of a venomous substance)’). In sense 3 either after German Propination (1875 or earlier with reference to the part of Poland then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire; now historical) or directly after Polish propinacja (early 19th cent. or earlier); compare post-classical Latin propinatio (beginning of the 18th cent. or earlier in a German source; a1400 in a Polish source referring to traded goods more generally).
1. The action of giving or administering something; an instance of this. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 98 Cantharides,..if you faile in their due and skilfull applycation or propination,..driue men into most intollerable greeuous symptomes.
1638 G. Langbaine tr. G. Ranchin Rev. Councell Trent iv. 78 What shift can wee use to excuse from dishonest and filthy lucre those things which they call graces expectative,..mandates, preventions, propinations, [etc].
2. The action of drinking a pledge, or of drinking to a person's health, esp. (in ancient Greek and Roman contexts) by drinking from a cup which is then offered to another; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking to each other or toasting
pledging1538
skolinga1599
wassail1598
healthing1628
propination1656
hob or nob1756
hob-nobbing1795
hob-noba1814
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Propination, a drinking to one, a bidding one drink.
1706 J. Potter Archæologia Græca (ed. 2) II. iv. xx. 398 The Propinations, and methods of Drinking, which other Nations observ'd.
1706 J. Potter Archæologia Græca (ed. 2) II. iv. xx. 393 Proteas..drank it off, and presented his Service to Alexander in another of the same dimensions. This Propination was carry'd about towards the right hand.
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxi. Observ. 92 What makes this the more probable is, that the propination always began from the most honourable person.
1793 T. Wilson Archæol. Dict. (ed. 2) at Propinatio In the propination, the person's health was drank, which was expressed by the word χαιρε.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Propination, the act of pledging, or drinking first and then offering the cup to another. [Also in later dictionaries.]]
3. In Poland: the right to manufacture, distribute, and sell alcoholic beverages, esp. as held exclusively by or leased from a nobleman. Now historical.Originally a feudal right, conferred by King Jan Olbracht in 1496.
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society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in provisions > in liquor > license or permission
late licence1873
propination1886
off-licence1891
on-licence1891
extension1923
1886 Daily News 23 Dec. 5/7 This nobleman has the ‘propination’ or sole right of selling spirits in this part of the world.
1924 Jewish Q. Rev. 14 318 By doing away with inn-keepers and establishing public propination the emperor..‘aimed to destroy us, our wives and children’.
1995 J. Moskalewicz & A. Zieliński in D. B. Heath Internat. Handbk. Alcohol & Culture xxi. 225 Propination is strongly associated with ‘the Jewish question’ in Poland. Because of legal and customary restrictions, one of the few careers open to Jews was to lease an inn from a local landlord.
2004 G. D. Hundert Jews in Poland–Lithuania in 18th Cent. 14 The most visible economic activity was leasing parts of holdings or various monopolies from Polish noblemen. The most common type of lease was of ‘propination’ rights.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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