单词 | sciote |
释义 | Scioten.adj. Now rare. A. n. A native or inhabitant of the Greek island of Chios; a Chian. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece > Greek islands Rhodianc1450 Naxianc1487 Candian1549 Melian1550 Parian1550 Sciote1553 Cretan1579 Samian1579 Leucadian1615 Sciana1641 Siphnian1709 Septinsular1807 Ionian1816 Corfiote1835 Naxiote1859 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iv. f. 50v The Rodians and the Sciotes [L. Chii] demaunded assistaunce of some guarrison. 1622 R. Ferrers Worth of Women sig. C8v The Scyots by th'Egiptian sore opprest, Vnarm'd to leaue the towne, with them agree. 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant xv. 186 The Sciots..resolv'd to mitigate his Fury by a voluntary submission. 1769 T. Smollett Present State All Nations IV. 170 The Turks look upon the Sciots as a foolish kind of people, and it is a common saying among them, that it is as impossible to find a wise Sciot as a green horse. 1843 Southern Lit. Messenger Apr. 233/2 The Turks on every Sciote fell, Blood-thirsty as the hound. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 549/1 A number of the Sciotes having, in 1822, joined the Samians,..the inhabitants..were indiscriminately massacred... Subsequently..many of the Sciote families returned. 1910 J. Cook Mediterranean & Borderlands II. x. 132 Within two months twenty-three thousand Sciotes were put to the sword. B. adj. Of or relating to the Greek island of Chios; Chian. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands Ionic1483 Rhodiana1533 Candian1559 lesbian1559 Cretan1579 Ionian1579 Ortygian1582 Parianc1602 Lemnian1611 Carpathian1637 lesbic1659 Eubœan1660 Melian1684 Sciote1718 Minoan1830 Naxiote1859 Corfiote1877 Knossian1894 Siphnian1895 Cycladic1915 Leucadian1952 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 31 July (1965) I. 419 The ruins of this great City is now inhabited by poor Greek peasants who wear the Sciote habit. 1837 H. Martineau Diary 8 Sept. in Autobiogr. (1877) III. 190 Eastlake..must be a metaphysician to have painted his Sciote picture. 1898 Werner's Mag. Sept. 6 The moon, with sleepy light, Bathed each purple Sciote hill. 1914 S. G. W. Benjamin Life & Adventures Free Lance iii. 91 Our pyrgo, although less ornate than many Sciote pyrgoes,..was typical in general style and arrangement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1553 |
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