| 单词 | quadrans | 
| 释义 | quadransn.ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > hour > 			[noun]		 > specific number of hours quadransOE quadranta1398 OE    Byrhtferð Enchiridion 		(Ashm.)	 		(1995)	  i. i. 4  				Gif hwam gelustfullað to witanne hwæt sy quadrans (þæt ys fyðerlinc) þonne undergite he mid soðre race þæt quadrans byð se feorða dæl þæs dæges.  2.  ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > 			[noun]		 > farthing farthingc950 ferlingc1000 quadransOE quarter1389 quadrantc1450 quatrinc1470 Q1530 quadrine1557 rag1592 qua1631 grig1657 Jack?c1690 fadge1789 daddler1900 OE    Byrhtferð Enchiridion 		(Ashm.)	 		(1995)	  ii. i. 60  				Se feorðandæl byð quadrans geciged, beo hyt penig oððe pund, swa þæt wel wat ceorlisc folc. c1436    Domesday Ipswich 		(BL Add. 25011)	 in  T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty 		(1873)	 II. 191 (MED)  				Of osmond be the custum takyn as of brasse, of eche pece of ore brass, laten, or copper be takyn quadrans. a1475    in  A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery 		(1905)	  i. 298 (MED)  				The mynchons..paiyng therfor yerely to hym..j quadrans at Mighelmasse for all seculer seruice. a1500    Tracts Eng. Weights & Meas. 15 in  Camden Misc. 		(1929)	 XV  				The lest money that goith in Yngland is a quadrans, and that is but the iiijth parte of a peny.  b.  = quadrant n.1 2b. historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > classical coins > 			[noun]		 > ancient Roman pennyOE quadrant1533 as1541 sesterce1541 sestertius1567 dupondius1601 quinare1601 quinarius1601 sextant1601 triens1601 trient1601 assarion1625 quadrans1654 quinary1728 nummus1771 follis1784 uncia1834 minimus1852 semis1853 siliqua1889 minim1896 1654    T. Hall Vindiciæ Literarum 123  				Concerning the Coynes that were among the Hebrews, as the Mite, the Quadrans, the Gerah, [etc.]. 1789    J. Adams Flowers Anc. Hist. cvii. 232  				The Quadrans was the smallest brass coin, of the same value as our farthing. 1882    P. Schaff Hist. Christian Church I. 359  				He turned the Hebrew shekel into a Silberling.., the quadrans into a Heller. 1961    W. S. David Day in Old Rome viii. 151  				To every lawful retainer present is carefully counted out a hundred quadrantes. 1986    J. E. Stambaugh  & D. L. Balch New Test. in Social Environm. iii. 80  				The as was broken down into a half piece (the semis) and quarter piece (the quadrans). 2002    S. Rebenich Jerome 186  				The quadrans, which was minted until Antoninus Pius..could also be understood as a token of minimal value, a ‘farthing’.  a.  = quadrant n.1 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > 			[noun]		 > sphericity or globularity > sphere > quarter of a sphere quadransOE quadrant1882 OE    Byrhtferð Enchiridion 		(Ashm.)	 		(1995)	  i. i. 4  				Quadrans byð se feorða dæl..oðra þinga þe man mæg rihtlice todælan on feower. OE    Byrhtferð Enchiridion 		(Ashm.)	 		(1995)	  iii. iii. 184  				Gyf þu todælst hwæt on feower, se feorða dæl byð quadrans geciged.  b.  A unit of weight equal to a quarter of a troy ounce (approx. 7.8 g). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1398    J. Trevisa tr.  Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum 		(BL Add.)	 f. 333  				Quadrans weyeþ þe fourþe del of an vnce and hatte quadrans in hebrew. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasQuadrans   (The name of) a former constellation, the Mural Quadrant, in what is now the northern part of the constellation of Bοötes. Also  Quadrans. Cf. Quadrantid n. ΚΠ 1811    W. Herschel in  Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 101 292  				A very different aspect of the heavens will be perceived when we examine the following constellations. Beginning from the head of Capricorn.., thence proceeding to Antinous.., to Quadrans Muralis.., and to the head of Draco. 1878    Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 38 396  				Several additional ones [sc. meteor showers] in Quadrans, Cygnus, and Corona were very slightly seen. 1899    R. H. Allen Star-names 348  				Quadrans Muralis, the Mural Quadrant.., was formed by La Lande in 1795, as a souvenir of the instrument with which he and his nephew..observed the stars. 1958    P. Moore Amateur Astronomer 		(ed. 2)	 xii. 146  				One of the rejected groups, Quadrans Muralis (the Mural Quadrant) has left a legacy in the form of the name of the annual Quadrantid meteor shower. 1992    S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 444/2  				The Quadrantid shower is named after the obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis. < as lemmas | 
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