red mann.

Brit.

/ˈrɛd ˌman/, U.S.

/ˈrɛd ˈmæn/

Inflections: Plural red men;

Forms: see red adj. and n. and man n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., man n.¹

Etymology: < red adj. + man n.¹With sense 1 compare white woman n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f and similarly white wife (see e.g. quots. a1550, 1709, 1835 at sense 1). With sense 2a compare French homme rouge (1725 or earlier in this sense), and e.g. Natchez toM ha·kup , lit. ‘red man’ (1873 as tvmh hakup ), Creek isti-cháati , lit. ‘red person’ (1738 or earlier), both with reference to American Indians; compare the discussion at redskin n. With sense 2b compare quot. 1892 at Red Indian n. 2. In sense 3a after South African Dutch rooiman (see roman n.³ 1); in sense 3b after Afrikaans rooiman (see roman n.³ 2). In sense 4 so called on account of its red colour.

1. Alchemy. A substance regarded as the male principle or parent of metals, usually identified with sulphur (cf. sulphur n. 2a). Now historical.

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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [noun]

elementa1300

spirita1393

bodya1398

originalsc1484

red mana1500

principlea1550

principium1684

a1500 in D. W. Singer Catal. Lat. & Vernacular Alchemical MSS (1931) II. 489 (MED) Take one rede man.

a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 53 (MED) They talke of the red man & his whit wiffe.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E2 Your Red man, and your white woman; With all your Broathes, your Menstrues [etc.] .

1709 E. Philalethes True Light Alchymy ii. 65 Of the Red-Man one, of his White Wife three Thou take, and mix (which is a good proportion).

1835 J. Anster in tr. J. W. von Goethe Faustus 392 (note) In almost every one of these recipes for preparing the elixir, this marriage between the red man and the white wife is mentioned.

1926 A. E. Waite Secret Trad. in Alchemy xiv. 208 A Recapitulation at the end affirms that ‘our Red Man’ and his wife do not tinge until they have been tinged themselves.

2000 D. Tyson Sexual Alchemy v. 78 The ‘red man’ and the ‘white woman’ are sulfur and quicksilver, respectively.

a. A North American Indian. Also (with the): North American Indians collectively. Now historical.Now generally considered offensive.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Amerindian > [noun]

Indian1553

American1568

Native Americana1628

native1636

American Native1648

American Indian1650

Injun1666

Canada Indian1688

red man1740

North American Indian1748

redskinc1769

buckskin1783

Red Indian1788

red1795

North American1825

copperhead1838

neechee1850

Lo1871

Amerind1899

Amerindian1899

1740 J. Wesley Extract Jrnl. 28 We believe the Souls of Red Men walk up and down near the Place where they died.

1744 Vaudreuil in Pres. State Louisiana 37 The English..aimed at nothing so much as the Destruction of the red Men.

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 187 The Indian or the Red Man seems to have been the most ancient, or the original man of America.

1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 187 The fancied superiority of the red men has been exploded ever since the settlement of emigrants from Europe along the frontiers.

1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish vii. 42 Ready to be let loose, and destroy his brother the red man.

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 477 A few scattered tribes of red-men.

1941 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 28 377 The red men resented the intrusion of the American white men on their hunting grounds.

2003 S. M. O'Brien In Bitterness & in Tears xiv. 153 Although some of their officers attempted to stop them, the white soldiers had taken out their hatred of all red men on the Cherokees.

b. = Beothuk n. 1.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern Canada > [noun]

mountainer1625

Montagnais1654

mountaineer1703

Cree1760

Mistassini1781

Muskego1785

Red Indian1796

Chipewyan1801

Beothuk1828

red man1842

Naskapi1849

1842 R. H. Bonnycastle Newfoundland II. xiv. 252 These were, very possibly, the poor disinherited Red Men, who, it had been the disgraceful practice of the ruder hunters, furriers, and settlers in Newfoundland, to hunt, fire at, and slaughter, wherever they could find them.

1892 Trans. Royal Soc. Canad. 9 124 The name Red Indian..is the translation of the Micmac name,..Maquajik, which means red men or red people.

1955 L. E. F. English Historic Newfoundland 9/2 They [sc. Beothuks] were described as of ordinary height—yet there are recorded instances of giant Red Men of seven feet in stature.

1996 New Scientist (Nexis) 10 Feb. 3030 Their practice of painting faces and limbs..with crimson-coloured ochre inspired the now common epithet Red Man.

3. South African.

†a. The Roman sea bream, Chrysoblephys laticeps; = roman n.³ 1. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Chrysoblephus

stompneus1705

roman1790

red man1798

dageraad1853

1798 S. H. Wilcocke in tr. J. S. Stavorinus Voy. E.-Indies I. ii. 34 (note) A kind of red fish, named roómans or red men, by the inhabitants of the Cape.

b. A large nocturnal sun spider; = roman n.³ 2. rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > order Solpugida > member of

solpugid1869

sun spider1898

roman1905

wind-scorpion1912

solifugid1925

solifuge1935

wind-spider1959

red man1966

1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xiv. 235 The Red Men come into the house at night... Of medium size—perhaps three inches with the legs fully spread..orange-red, hairy, fast, with great snapping beak-like jaws which, most horrifyingly, they can move at the same time up and down and from side to side.

4. Caribbean. A red-coloured squirrelfish (family Holocentridae) of the Virgin Islands, esp. the common Holocentrus adscensionis. Also red man fish.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Beryciformes > member of family Holocentridae (soldier-fish)

squirrel1735

squirrel-fish1803

soldier-fish1882

red man1890

1890 Cent. Dict. Redman,..a holocentroid fish, Holocentrus ascensionis, of a brilliant reddish color. (St. Thomas, W.I.)

1951 S. Murray Compl. Handbk. Virgin Islands 122 (table) Redman fish.

1981 L. Valls What Pistarckle! 104/1 Red man, squirrelfish (Holocentrus).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	red man
释义	red mann. Brit. /ˈrɛd ˌman/, U.S. /ˈrɛd ˈmæn/ Inflections: Plural red men; Forms: see red adj. and n. and man n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., man n.¹ Etymology: < red adj. + man n.¹With sense 1 compare white woman n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f and similarly white wife (see e.g. quots. a1550, 1709, 1835 at sense 1). With sense 2a compare French homme rouge (1725 or earlier in this sense), and e.g. Natchez toM ha·kup , lit. ‘red man’ (1873 as tvmh hakup ), Creek isti-cháati , lit. ‘red person’ (1738 or earlier), both with reference to American Indians; compare the discussion at redskin n. With sense 2b compare quot. 1892 at Red Indian n. 2. In sense 3a after South African Dutch rooiman (see roman n.³ 1); in sense 3b after Afrikaans rooiman (see roman n.³ 2). In sense 4 so called on account of its red colour. 1. Alchemy. A substance regarded as the male principle or parent of metals, usually identified with sulphur (cf. sulphur n. 2a). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [noun] elementa1300 spirita1393 bodya1398 originalsc1484 red mana1500 principlea1550 principium1684 a1500 in D. W. Singer Catal. Lat. & Vernacular Alchemical MSS (1931) II. 489 (MED) Take one rede man. a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 53 (MED) They talke of the red man & his whit wiffe. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E2 Your Red man, and your white woman; With all your Broathes, your Menstrues [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1709 E. Philalethes True Light Alchymy ii. 65 Of the Red-Man one, of his White Wife three Thou take, and mix (which is a good proportion). 1835 J. Anster in tr. J. W. von Goethe Faustus 392 (note) In almost every one of these recipes for preparing the elixir, this marriage between the red man and the white wife is mentioned. 1926 A. E. Waite Secret Trad. in Alchemy xiv. 208 A Recapitulation at the end affirms that ‘our Red Man’ and his wife do not tinge until they have been tinged themselves. 2000 D. Tyson Sexual Alchemy v. 78 The ‘red man’ and the ‘white woman’ are sulfur and quicksilver, respectively. 2. a. A North American Indian. Also (with the): North American Indians collectively. Now historical.Now generally considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Amerindian > [noun] Indian1553 American1568 Native Americana1628 native1636 American Native1648 American Indian1650 Injun1666 Canada Indian1688 red man1740 North American Indian1748 redskinc1769 buckskin1783 Red Indian1788 red1795 North American1825 copperhead1838 neechee1850 Lo1871 Amerind1899 Amerindian1899 1740 J. Wesley Extract Jrnl. 28 We believe the Souls of Red Men walk up and down near the Place where they died. 1744 Vaudreuil in Pres. State Louisiana 37 The English..aimed at nothing so much as the Destruction of the red Men. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 187 The Indian or the Red Man seems to have been the most ancient, or the original man of America. 1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 187 The fancied superiority of the red men has been exploded ever since the settlement of emigrants from Europe along the frontiers. 1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish vii. 42 Ready to be let loose, and destroy his brother the red man. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 477 A few scattered tribes of red-men. 1941 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 28 377 The red men resented the intrusion of the American white men on their hunting grounds. 2003 S. M. O'Brien In Bitterness & in Tears xiv. 153 Although some of their officers attempted to stop them, the white soldiers had taken out their hatred of all red men on the Cherokees. b. = Beothuk n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern Canada > [noun] mountainer1625 Montagnais1654 mountaineer1703 Cree1760 Mistassini1781 Muskego1785 Red Indian1796 Chipewyan1801 Beothuk1828 red man1842 Naskapi1849 1842 R. H. Bonnycastle Newfoundland II. xiv. 252 These were, very possibly, the poor disinherited Red Men, who, it had been the disgraceful practice of the ruder hunters, furriers, and settlers in Newfoundland, to hunt, fire at, and slaughter, wherever they could find them. 1892 Trans. Royal Soc. Canad. 9 124 The name Red Indian..is the translation of the Micmac name,..Maquajik, which means red men or red people. 1955 L. E. F. English Historic Newfoundland 9/2 They [sc. Beothuks] were described as of ordinary height—yet there are recorded instances of giant Red Men of seven feet in stature. 1996 New Scientist (Nexis) 10 Feb. 3030 Their practice of painting faces and limbs..with crimson-coloured ochre inspired the now common epithet Red Man. 3. South African. †a. The Roman sea bream, Chrysoblephys laticeps; = roman n.³ 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Chrysoblephus stompneus1705 roman1790 red man1798 dageraad1853 1798 S. H. Wilcocke in tr. J. S. Stavorinus Voy. E.-Indies I. ii. 34 (note) A kind of red fish, named roómans or red men, by the inhabitants of the Cape. b. A large nocturnal sun spider; = roman n.³ 2. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > order Solpugida > member of solpugid1869 sun spider1898 roman1905 wind-scorpion1912 solifugid1925 solifuge1935 wind-spider1959 red man1966 1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xiv. 235 The Red Men come into the house at night... Of medium size—perhaps three inches with the legs fully spread..orange-red, hairy, fast, with great snapping beak-like jaws which, most horrifyingly, they can move at the same time up and down and from side to side. 4. Caribbean. A red-coloured squirrelfish (family Holocentridae) of the Virgin Islands, esp. the common Holocentrus adscensionis. Also red man fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Beryciformes > member of family Holocentridae (soldier-fish) squirrel1735 squirrel-fish1803 soldier-fish1882 red man1890 1890 Cent. Dict. Redman,..a holocentroid fish, Holocentrus ascensionis, of a brilliant reddish color. (St. Thomas, W.I.) 1951 S. Murray Compl. Handbk. Virgin Islands 122 (table) Redman fish. 1981 L. Valls What Pistarckle! 104/1 Red man, squirrelfish (Holocentrus). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1500
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