单词 | propination |
释义 | propinationn.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]. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1608 |
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