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单词 servatory
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servatoryn.

Forms: late Middle English 1600s seruatory.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin servātōrium.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin servātōrium store, container (from 12th cent. in British sources), fishpond (12th cent.; 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin servāt- , past participial stem of servāre to preserve (see serve v.3) + -ōrium -ory suffix1.
Obsolete.
1. Probably: a fishpond.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-pond or -tank
fish-poolc950
fish-housec1000
viverc1330
stew1387
piscinaa1398
piscinea1400
fishpondc1440
trunk1440
moat1463
stagnec1470
servatorya1475
viviera1500
fish-stew1552
vivarium1600
shut1605
fish-stove1615
keep1617
estang1628
vivarya1634
nursery1772
preserve1849
whalerya1880
fish tank1957
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 301 The cowrte, and all the bildyngis, with the gardeyne, and seruatory [L. servatorio].
2. An object in which something is kept or preserved.In quot. referring to a phylactery (phylactery n. 1a).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > that which preserves from injury or destruction
preserverc1487
preservativea1500
servatory1613
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. viii. 120 Their Phylacteries or Seruatories..they [sc. the Pharisees] vsed as Preseruatiues, or Remembrancers of the law.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021).
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