单词 | accumulate |
释义 | accumulateadj. Now rare. Heaped up, accumulated; increased by accumulation. In early use chiefly as past participle. ΚΠ 1533 T. More Let. to Henry VIII in Wks. (1557) II. 1424/1 Of your mere abundant goodnes heped and accumilate vpon me. 1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. B.7 Ze haue the same actioun, that ze had then, accumulat with recent murther and tressoun, to prouoke the Ire of the Eternall. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C4v Socrates..was made a person heroycall, and his memorie accumulate with honors diuine and humane. View more context for this quotation 1668 H. More Two Last Dialogues v. xxix. 409 A very accumulate Completion of that Prediction. 1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 223 It was an accumulate Number, or Council of Priests, to whom ordinary Appeals came. 1780 H. L. Thrale Diary 28 June in Thraliana (1942) I. 441 My Spirits are really affected by the Sight of horrors thus accumulate on horrors. 1821 R. Southey Vision of Judgem. v. 20 The blast with lightning and thunder Vollying aright and aleft amid the accumulate blackness. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iv. 80 The accumulate store saved from the wrecks of Time. 1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris iii. 182 All the accumulate impedimenta. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). accumulatev. 1. a. transitive. To heap up in a mass, to pile up (literal and figurative); to amass, collect, or accrue (esp. wealth or possessions). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > collect and store amass1481 accumulatec1487 uphoard1582 harvest1888 stockpile1943 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > make abundant [verb (transitive)] > accumulate or get a large amount of heapc1000 amass1481 accumulatec1487 exaggerate1533 pilec1540 gathera1593 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate heapc1000 tassea1400 aggregate?a1425 grossc1440 amass1481 accumulatec1487 accumule1490 exaggerate1533 cumulate1534 compile1578 pook1587 mass1604 hilla1618 congeriate1628 agglomerate1751 pile1827 to roll up1848 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 276 Such affluent abundaunce of so odoriferous spices Dame Nature hath accumylated and enriched theym with-all. 1529 T. Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. cv. 11 I desyre nat thys for any mynde, God ys my jugge, that I have to accumulat good. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. ix. f. 135v If he lysted, he mought accumulate vp treasure incomparable. 1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 25 Exchaunge that doth multiply or accumulat infinite and excessiue profits. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 108 What piles of wealth hath he accumulated ? View more context for this quotation 1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 84 The vitious humors, accumulated in the vessels of the womb, and restagnated or belched up into the stomach. 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 317 In wet weather these insects [sc. ants] accumulate cavernous heaps of sandy particles amongst the grass, called by the labourers, sprout-hills. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 36 She borrowed large sums in every year; and has thereby accumulated an immense debt. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 123 Soon the young captive prince shall roll in fire, And all his race accumulate the pyre. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner ii. 32 How the love of accumulating money grows an absorbing passion. 1902 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 6 451 Up to the first Christian century, religious truth was accumulated progressively. 1937 J. Steinbeck Of Mice & Men 102 He had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back. 1969 M. Copeland Game of Nations v. 82 They accumulated piles of unprocessed tape in the Mukhabaret and Interior Ministry basements. 2010 Daily Tel. 2 Feb. 21/4 Power is heady stuff and having got a taste of it they accumulated more powers. b. intransitive. To amass wealth or possessions.one must speculate to accumulate and variants: see speculate v. Additions. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] musterc1560 amass1572 accumulate1613 piece1622 rally1647 rendezvous1662 herd1704 collect1794 congest1859 mass1861 the mind > possession > wealth > be rich [verb (intransitive)] > become rich gather?c1225 richa1375 purchasec1387 increasea1425 enrich1525 to feather one's nest1583 to make a, one's fortune1596 to make one's fortunea1616 fatten1638 accumulate1747 to fill one's pipe1821 to shake the pagoda-tree1825 pyramid1926 1613 T. Adams Heauen & Earth Reconcil'd sig. C2v It is obseruable, that the Creatures neerest to the Earth, are most greedy to accumulate: What Creatures store vp such heapes of prouision, as the Ant. 1640 J. Saltmarsh Holy Discov. & Flames 39 As wee adde and accumulate with our owne hands, God fillips our height downe. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. x. 56 None of your family, but yourself, could be happy were they not rich. So let them fret on, grumble and grudge, and accumulate. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 351 Lombard Street and Threadneedle Street are merely places where men toil and accumulate. They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. 1858 J. G. Holland Titcomb's Lett. vii. 237 We strive to accumulate beyond our wants and beyond the wants of our families. 1918 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 28 Nov. 537/1 The war has impressed that the ‘love of money’, the greed to accumulate for the sake of accumulation, is an evil. 1993 C. Perrow in R. Swedberg Explor. Econ. Sociol. xiv. 382 The fetish of consumption drives the people in small firms to work long hours in order to accumulate and spend. 2. transitive. Oxford University. To take (degrees) by accumulation (accumulation n. 4). Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (intransitive)] > more than one accumulate1615 society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (transitive)] > more than one accumulate1615 1615 T. Jackson Justifying Faith ii. vi. 220 Did hee intend they should accumulate iustifications as we doe degrees in schooles, and be twise iustifyed at once? 1678 T. Dixon Let. 27 Nov. in Flemings in Oxf. (1904) I. 267 One Haley..may be admitted to his Masters degree & accumulate for both Degrees togethr. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 862 He accumulated the degrees in Physick, and was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. at Lond. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 819 Rob. Moor of New Coll. who accumulated, was admitted. 1753 E. Chambers Cycl. Wood gives numerous instances of Accumulators, i.e. persons who accumulated or took degrees by Accumulation, at Oxford. 1845 G. R. M. Ward tr. Oxf. University Statues III. 141 Dispensation shall be proposed for empowering any head of a college [etc.]..to be admitted to accumulate degrees, or take the degrees of Bachelor and Master, or Doctor, at once. 1887 Dict. National Biogr. XI. 5/1 Meanwhile he had accumulated his degrees in divinity, proceeding D.D. on 2 March 1715 as a member of Christ Church. 1904 Grove's Dict. Music (1922) I. 747 On June 26, 1790, he accumulated the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Music at Oxford. 1986 J. Barton in J. McConica Hist. Univ. Oxf. III. iv. 266 Budden..had turned to the law from arts, and had accumulated the degrees in 1602. 2009 Univ. Oxf. Exam. Regulations, 2009–10 xxvii. 1062 The following fees shall be paid by every person..accumulating the Degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Civil Law. £18. 3. intransitive. To be formed into a heap or mass; to increase in quantity; to build up. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] forthwaxa900 wax971 growOE risec1175 anhigh1340 upwax1340 creasec1380 increasec1380 accreasea1382 augmenta1400 greata1400 mountc1400 morec1425 upgrowc1430 to run up1447 swell?c1450 add1533 accresce1535 gross1548 to get (a) head1577 amount1583 bolla1586 accrue1586 improve1638 aggrandize1647 accumulate1757 raise1761 heighten1803 replenish1814 to turn up1974 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > collect in one mass or body > accumulate gather1390 heap?1507 aggregate1591 pile1616 to brook up1691 accumulate1757 cata1909 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. lxxiii. 256 Several engines are made use of for removing the mud, or slime, as it accumulates. 1759 R. Symmer in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. cccclxxvii. 413 Setting aside the debt that must accumulate upon it. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 52 Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. 1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 30 More dark And dark the shades accumulate. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. iv. v. 89 Events were rapidly rolling together from every quarter, and accumulating to a crisis. 1902 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 32 373 A considerable body of prehistoric pottery has accumulated in our museums. 1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) v. 41 After a pile of strata has accumulated to a certain depth in a given region, an emergence..may take place. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Feb. a18/1 The snow will not build to immobilizing amounts, but will accumulate enough to cause disruptions to daily routines. 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