单词 | re-creation |
释义 | re-creationn.2 1. The action or process of creating again or in a new way; the result of this process, a new creation. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creating again regenerationc1384 re-creation?a1425 new-making1495 repullulation1623 remaking1625 reproductiona1640 regermination1646 recasting1687 regenesis1833 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > creating anew re-creation?a1425 recreating1587 ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 327 (MED) Þei mowe not denye, what in þe first creacioun and in þe secounde recreacyoun þat a man resceyueþ in þe blood of my sone. a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 270 (MED) Godis sone hadde mor trauayl in recreacion and redempcion of mankende þan he hadde to makyn al þis world. 1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. C.iiiiv Cryst,..That craftly made euery creature by good recreacyon. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft v. ii. 93 But to what end should one dispute against these creations and recreations? 1615 Bp. J. Hall Imprese of God i, in Recoll. Treat. 658 As in the Creation he could haue made all at once, but hee would take dayes for it: so in our re-creation by grace. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 2 Not long after the re-creation of mankind we find recorded..the Tower of Babylon. 1703 J. Broughton Psychologia ii. x. 412 From hence we may easily collect what sort of a Resurrection, I do not say Estibus, but his Hypothesis makes; it plainly makes a re-creation, and that cannot be of the same Person. 1800 Neighbourhood I. xv. 85 Pursling, like Alexander the Great, sighed for a new creation; or..we might more properly say.., a new re-creation. 1831 C. A. Bowles Cat's Tail 21 In hopes, that by dint of blue pill and starvation, The former great man might effect re-creation. 1873 G. Henslow Evolution xiii. 204 The cataclysms and recreations of the early geological theorists. 1933 Eng. Rev. Jan. 88 The recreation of the Habsburg monarchy. 1988 G. J. Whitrow Time in Hist.: Evol. Gen. Awareness iii. 31 The late Babylonian astronomer-priest Berossus..believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation of the universe. 2. The action or an act of replicating or reproducing something; a replica, a reconstruction. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > an imitation resemblant1484 patterna1500 counterfeiture1548 counterfeit1587 idol1590 reduplication1592 copy1596 module1608 imitationa1616 mockage1615 echo1622 conduplicationa1631 transcript1646 ectype1647 mime1650 duplicating1659 mimicry1688 replication1692 shadow1693 reproduction1701 mimication?1715 repetition1774 replicate1821 autotype1829 replica1841 re-creation1915 retake1922 mock-up1957 reprise1961 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > action of repeating in a copy or making a copy replication1692 reproducing1705 multiplication1715 reproduction1793 re-creation1915 the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > reconstruction > that which is reconstruction1795 re-creation1915 1915 Portsmouth (Ohio) Daily Times 18 Oct. 12/6 (advt.) It is the laboratory re-creation of music as opposed to manufactured music. 1931 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 53/2 (caption) At the left is a re-creation of the pre-Georgian type of mantel. 1984 Listener 22 Mar. 28/3 It is all intended..as a loving..re-creation of Arthur Ransome's celebrated series of children's stories. 2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land iii. 27 It was exactly the kind of bar you would hope to find in San Francisco, a kitsch recreation of a fifties beauty salon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.2?a1425 |
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