单词 | storehouse |
释义 | storehousen. 1. A building in which goods are stored. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > storehouse houseOE storehouse1348 penuary1607 store1667 deposit-house1797 supply house1864 garnerage1880 1348 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 470/18 m. 9 Pro vna serura noua empta pro hostio del storhus vj. d. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 22 She to haue the storehous therto to leye in hire stuffe. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xii. f. xcvij Which nether have stoore housse ner barne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iv. 35 Where is Duncans body? Macd. Carried to Colmekill, The Sacred Store-house of his Predecessors, And Guardian of their Bones. View more context for this quotation 1664 S. Pepys Diary 12 July (1971) V. 202 And fine storehouses there are and good dockes. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 307 One of these huts..the Indians made use [of] for a store-house. 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 10 Laying up your wheat wisely in store-houses for the time of famine. 1890 Rlwys. Amer. 300 The supplies are..delivered at the General Storehouse. 2. transferred and figurative. Often, a store or treasury from which something may be obtained in plenty; an abundant source (of). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > source of supply > abundant mine?1541 storehouse1578 pantheon1596 cornucopia1611 goshen1890 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 72 The liuer, the shoppe or storehouse of bloud. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H2 Arcadie storehouse of Nimphs, and nurserie of beautie. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R2v She..Greatly ioyed merry tales to faine, Of which a store-house did with her remaine. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 103 My heart hath been a store-house long of things And sayings laid up, portending strange events. View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. x. 65 Memory, which is as it were the Store-house of our Ideas. 1846 T. Wright Ess. Middle Ages I. v. 203 The history..published by Geoffrey of Monmouth opened a rich storehouse of fiction for the poets who followed. 1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (ed. 3) I. ii. 59 The brain..is the store-house of past sensations. 1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. Introd. i. 4 Books that are professedly storehouses of information. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 240 The vtter Storhouse Dore in the seid Ship. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. iv. sig. Mivv Now that I am become the storer or storehouse keper of this puissant lorde. 1548 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 40 ijo croked boltes ffor the store howse dore. 1809 in Orders Council Naval Service (1866) I. 257 Clerk and Storehouse Keeper. 1816 in Orders Council Naval Service (1866) I. 260 One Storehouse Labourer. 1833 in Orders Council Naval Service (1866) I. 190 The first and second classes of storehouse labourers, who are men charged with an important trust of great responsibility. 1886 in Orders Council Naval Service (1888) V. 125 We would recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased to sanction the appointment of a Storehouseman (Civil rating) to that Ship..and to be assisted by a Yeoman of Storerooms. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1348 |
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