royal oakn.

Brit.

/ˌrɔɪəl ˈəʊk/, U.S.

/ˌrɔɪ(ə)l ˈoʊk/

Forms: see royal adj. and n. and oak n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: royal adj., oak n.

Etymology: < royal adj. + oak n.The name of ‘the Royal Oak’ was given to the tree at Boscobel in Shropshire, in which Charles II hid himself during his flight after the battle of Worcester in 1651. With sense 3 compare Robur Carolinum n.

1. A large or stately oak tree; (in later use) spec. the English or pedunculate oak, Quercus robur. Now rare.In quot. 1664: an oak tree from a royal forest.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks

red oakOE

cerre-tree1577

gall-tree1597

robur1601

kermes1605

live oak1610

white oak1610

royal oak1616

swamp-oak1683

grey oak1697

rock oak1699

chestnut oak1703

water oak1709

Spanish oak1716

turkey-oak1717

willow oak1717

iron oak1724

maiden oak1725

scarlet oak1738

black jack1765

post oak1775

durmast1791

mountain chestnut oak1801

quercitron oak1803

laurel oak1810

mossy-cup oak1810

rock chestnut oak1810

pin oak1812

overcup oak1814

overcup white oak1814

bur oak1815

jack oak1816

mountain oak1818

shingle-oak1818

gall-oak1835

peach oak1835

golden oak1838

weeping oak1838

Aleppo oak1845

Italian oak1858

dyer's oak1861

Gambel's Oak1878

maul oak1884

punk oak1884

sessile oak1906

Garry oak1908

roble1908

1616 T. Scot 2nd Pt. Philomythie sig. B4 Tall Cedars, Cypres, Pine and royall Okes, With country Elmes, and Ash for plow and yokes.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxxii. 114 The fittest sacrifice for the Royal-Oaks, and their Hamadryad's.

1707 Philos. Trans. 1706–7 (Royal Soc.) 25 2422 The Royal Oak..overspreading Subnascent Trees and young Suckers.

a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 320 A knife-haft made from the royal-oak.

1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 215/1 Q. regia, the Royal Oak. Leaves stalked,..heart-shaped, wavy... From Koordistan.

1898 3rd Ann. Rep. Pennsylvania Dept. Agric. 518 It is also late in life before the royal oak, Quercus Robur, assumes the rough-bark condition.

1900 Meehan's Monthly Nov. 167/1 England has good cause to be proud of the Royal Oak, Quercus Robur.

1969 Gardeners Chron. & New Horticulturalist 21 Feb. 35/2 It is thought that the most appropriate tree to plant (except in smokey atmospheres) will be the royal oak, Quercus pedunculata.

2. Usually with capital initials. A lottery of the later 17th and early 18th centuries, originally organized to benefit poor Royalist veterans of the English Civil War. Frequently as Royal Oak lottery. Now historical.

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1663 E. Hayward Let. 21 Dec. in J. Q. Adams Dramatic Rec. Sir Henry Herbert (1917) 133 Not Doubting but that I shalbe reimbursed and encouraged when the business is in a more setled way, that the royall oake Lotteries, and musick are reduced to obedience.

1665 in Aberdeen Jrnl. Notes & Queries (1914) 7 120 The practiseing of the game called the Royall Oak.

1695 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 3 Ah Pox confound that Will's Coffee-House, it has ruin'd more Young Men than the Royal Oak Lottery.

1703 Daily Courant 4 Oct. 2/1 A Comedy call'd, The Sullen Lovers... With a new prologue by way of Elegy on the Death of the Royal Oak Lottery.

1718 A. de Moivre Doctr. Chances Pref. p. iii When the Play of the Royal Oak was in use, some Persons who lost considerably by it, had their losses chiefly occasioned by an Argument of which they could not perceive the Fallacy.

1899 Pall Mall Mag. 19 547 As early as 1696, lotteries, with the exception of the Royal Oak lottery, were prohibited as common nuisances.

2003 Huntington Libr. Q. 66 156 In 1664 Nathaniel Cole, a former mayor of Bristol, complained to Joseph Williamson that the Royal Oak, a veteran's lottery, ruined many young men.

3. Astronomy. With capital initials and usually with the. (The English name of) the former constellation Robur Carolinum. Now historical.

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the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Robur Carolinum

Robur Carolinum1702

royal oak1712

1712 E. Wells Young Gentleman's Astron., Chronol., & Dialling vii. 89 To these 15 are not long since added 12 Constellations, made up of the fixed Stars about the fourth Pole, and not visible to us, viz. the Phenix, the Crane..and the Royal Oak.

?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 487/1 The new Southern Constellations... Robur Carolinum, The Royal Oak.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 323 Our constellation of the Royal Oak is said to have found its way in new copies of the old Hindu treatises, into the company of the Seven Sages.

1907 R. S. Ball Great Astronomers 168 Halley..endeavoured to squeeze a new constellation into the group around the southern pole which he styled ‘The Royal Oak’.

1995 P. Whitfield Mapping of Heavens iii. 88 In Restoration England, Edward Sherburne and Edmond Halley devised respectively a Royal Heart and a Royal Oak in commemoration of Charles I and Charles II.

4. A sprig of oak worn to commemorate the restoration of Charles II in 1660.Recorded earliest in, and now only in, Royal Oak Day n. at Compounds.

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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > plants

rose of Sharon1626

Sharon's rose1640

royal oak1759

Flanders poppy1918

palm1918

Easter lily1926

1759 S. Paterson Catal. Orig. Manuscripts J. Henley 25 Royal Oak Day.

1777 in J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 354 Royal Oak The Whigs to provoke.

1825 London Lit. Gaz. 30 July 483/1 It [sc. May] is happier than the rest of the months in its 29th day, when we wear royal oak, and thank it for a Restoration.

1853 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 8 490 Each young loyalist is armed with a nettle..with which..are coerced those unfortunates who are unprovided with ‘royal oak’.

Compounds

Royal Oak Day n. now chiefly historical the anniversary of the Stuart restoration to the English throne on 29 May 1660, traditionally celebrated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves (see note in etymology); = Oak-apple Day n. at oak-apple n. Compounds.

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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year

Candlemas1014

May Day1267

All Souls' Dayc1300

midsummer evena1400

firstc1400

Beltane1424

midsummer eve1426

quarter day1435

Beltane1456

mid-Sundaya1475

madding-day1568

Lord Mayor's day1591

Barnaby bright1595

Lammas-eve1597

All Saints' Night1607

Handsel Monday1635

distaff's day1648

long Barnabya1657

St. Valentine's eve1671

leet-day1690

All Fools' Day1702

Boxing Day1743

April Fool's Day1748

Royal Oak Day1759

box day1765

Oak-apple Day1802

All Souls' Eve1805

mischief night1830

Shick-shack Day1847

chalk-back day1851

call night1864

Nut-Monday1867

Arbor Day1872

April Fool's1873

Labour Day1884

Martinmas Sunday1885

call day1886

Samhain1888

Juneteenth1890

Mother's Day1890

Father's Day1908

Thinking Day1927

Punkie night1931

Tweede Nuwejaar1947

1759*Royal Oak Day [see sense 4].

1884 Folk-lore Jrnl. 2 382 Those who did not conform to the usages of the ‘Royal Oak day’ were pelted with rotten eggs.

2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 26 May d4 The bars continue to celebrate Royal Oak Day with prize draws, specials and live music.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	royal oak
释义	royal oakn. Brit. /ˌrɔɪəl ˈəʊk/, U.S. /ˌrɔɪ(ə)l ˈoʊk/ Forms: see royal adj. and n. and oak n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: royal adj., oak n. Etymology: < royal adj. + oak n.The name of ‘the Royal Oak’ was given to the tree at Boscobel in Shropshire, in which Charles II hid himself during his flight after the battle of Worcester in 1651. With sense 3 compare Robur Carolinum n. 1. A large or stately oak tree; (in later use) spec. the English or pedunculate oak, Quercus robur. Now rare.In quot. 1664: an oak tree from a royal forest. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks red oakOE cerre-tree1577 gall-tree1597 robur1601 kermes1605 live oak1610 white oak1610 royal oak1616 swamp-oak1683 grey oak1697 rock oak1699 chestnut oak1703 water oak1709 Spanish oak1716 turkey-oak1717 willow oak1717 iron oak1724 maiden oak1725 scarlet oak1738 black jack1765 post oak1775 durmast1791 mountain chestnut oak1801 quercitron oak1803 laurel oak1810 mossy-cup oak1810 rock chestnut oak1810 pin oak1812 overcup oak1814 overcup white oak1814 bur oak1815 jack oak1816 mountain oak1818 shingle-oak1818 gall-oak1835 peach oak1835 golden oak1838 weeping oak1838 Aleppo oak1845 Italian oak1858 dyer's oak1861 Gambel's Oak1878 maul oak1884 punk oak1884 sessile oak1906 Garry oak1908 roble1908 1616 T. Scot 2nd Pt. Philomythie sig. B4 Tall Cedars, Cypres, Pine and royall Okes, With country Elmes, and Ash for plow and yokes. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxxii. 114 The fittest sacrifice for the Royal-Oaks, and their Hamadryad's. 1707 Philos. Trans. 1706–7 (Royal Soc.) 25 2422 The Royal Oak..overspreading Subnascent Trees and young Suckers. a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 320 A knife-haft made from the royal-oak. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 215/1 Q. regia, the Royal Oak. Leaves stalked,..heart-shaped, wavy... From Koordistan. 1898 3rd Ann. Rep. Pennsylvania Dept. Agric. 518 It is also late in life before the royal oak, Quercus Robur, assumes the rough-bark condition. 1900 Meehan's Monthly Nov. 167/1 England has good cause to be proud of the Royal Oak, Quercus Robur. 1969 Gardeners Chron. & New Horticulturalist 21 Feb. 35/2 It is thought that the most appropriate tree to plant (except in smokey atmospheres) will be the royal oak, Quercus pedunculata. 2. Usually with capital initials. A lottery of the later 17th and early 18th centuries, originally organized to benefit poor Royalist veterans of the English Civil War. Frequently as Royal Oak lottery. Now historical. ΚΠ 1663 E. Hayward Let. 21 Dec. in J. Q. Adams Dramatic Rec. Sir Henry Herbert (1917) 133 Not Doubting but that I shalbe reimbursed and encouraged when the business is in a more setled way, that the royall oake Lotteries, and musick are reduced to obedience. 1665 in Aberdeen Jrnl. Notes & Queries (1914) 7 120 The practiseing of the game called the Royall Oak. 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 3 Ah Pox confound that Will's Coffee-House, it has ruin'd more Young Men than the Royal Oak Lottery. 1703 Daily Courant 4 Oct. 2/1 A Comedy call'd, The Sullen Lovers... With a new prologue by way of Elegy on the Death of the Royal Oak Lottery. 1718 A. de Moivre Doctr. Chances Pref. p. iii When the Play of the Royal Oak was in use, some Persons who lost considerably by it, had their losses chiefly occasioned by an Argument of which they could not perceive the Fallacy. 1899 Pall Mall Mag. 19 547 As early as 1696, lotteries, with the exception of the Royal Oak lottery, were prohibited as common nuisances. 2003 Huntington Libr. Q. 66 156 In 1664 Nathaniel Cole, a former mayor of Bristol, complained to Joseph Williamson that the Royal Oak, a veteran's lottery, ruined many young men. 3. Astronomy. With capital initials and usually with the. (The English name of) the former constellation Robur Carolinum. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Robur Carolinum Robur Carolinum1702 royal oak1712 1712 E. Wells Young Gentleman's Astron., Chronol., & Dialling vii. 89 To these 15 are not long since added 12 Constellations, made up of the fixed Stars about the fourth Pole, and not visible to us, viz. the Phenix, the Crane..and the Royal Oak. ?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 487/1 The new Southern Constellations... Robur Carolinum, The Royal Oak. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 323 Our constellation of the Royal Oak is said to have found its way in new copies of the old Hindu treatises, into the company of the Seven Sages. 1907 R. S. Ball Great Astronomers 168 Halley..endeavoured to squeeze a new constellation into the group around the southern pole which he styled ‘The Royal Oak’. 1995 P. Whitfield Mapping of Heavens iii. 88 In Restoration England, Edward Sherburne and Edmond Halley devised respectively a Royal Heart and a Royal Oak in commemoration of Charles I and Charles II. 4. A sprig of oak worn to commemorate the restoration of Charles II in 1660.Recorded earliest in, and now only in, Royal Oak Day n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > plants rose of Sharon1626 Sharon's rose1640 royal oak1759 Flanders poppy1918 palm1918 Easter lily1926 1759 S. Paterson Catal. Orig. Manuscripts J. Henley 25 Royal Oak Day. 1777 in J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 354 Royal Oak The Whigs to provoke. 1825 London Lit. Gaz. 30 July 483/1 It [sc. May] is happier than the rest of the months in its 29th day, when we wear royal oak, and thank it for a Restoration. 1853 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 8 490 Each young loyalist is armed with a nettle..with which..are coerced those unfortunates who are unprovided with ‘royal oak’. Compounds Royal Oak Day n. now chiefly historical the anniversary of the Stuart restoration to the English throne on 29 May 1660, traditionally celebrated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves (see note in etymology); = Oak-apple Day n. at oak-apple n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year Candlemas1014 May Day1267 All Souls' Dayc1300 midsummer evena1400 firstc1400 Beltane1424 midsummer eve1426 quarter day1435 Beltane1456 mid-Sundaya1475 madding-day1568 Lord Mayor's day1591 Barnaby bright1595 Lammas-eve1597 All Saints' Night1607 Handsel Monday1635 distaff's day1648 long Barnabya1657 St. Valentine's eve1671 leet-day1690 All Fools' Day1702 Boxing Day1743 April Fool's Day1748 Royal Oak Day1759 box day1765 Oak-apple Day1802 All Souls' Eve1805 mischief night1830 Shick-shack Day1847 chalk-back day1851 call night1864 Nut-Monday1867 Arbor Day1872 April Fool's1873 Labour Day1884 Martinmas Sunday1885 call day1886 Samhain1888 Juneteenth1890 Mother's Day1890 Father's Day1908 Thinking Day1927 Punkie night1931 Tweede Nuwejaar1947 1759Royal Oak Day [see sense 4]. 1884 Folk-lore Jrnl.* 2 382 Those who did not conform to the usages of the ‘Royal Oak day’ were pelted with rotten eggs. 2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 26 May d4 The bars continue to celebrate Royal Oak Day with prize draws, specials and live music. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1616
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