单词 | supputation |
释义 | supputationn. 1. The action or process of calculating or computing (an amount, chronological period, etc.); calculation, computation, reckoning. Also: an instance of this; a method or system of reckoning; a calculation. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > action of calculating or counting accountc1300 numberingc1325 telling1340 calculingc1374 countingc1380 accountinga1387 summinga1387 calculation1393 count?a1400 computationc1425 reckoningc1425 numeration?a1475 supputation?a1475 compute1531 calcule1601 summing up1607 computing1629 subduction1656 enumerating1864 headcount1913 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 27 Florentius, monke of Wurcestre, whom y folowe specially with Marianus Scotte in the supputacion [L. supputatione] of yeres. 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel f. 9v (heading) A brife supputacion of the Ages and yeris of the worlde. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 1v Euery leaque conteyneth foure myles, after theyr supputations. 1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 12 Chronologies are onely bare supputations of the times, without any regard of the acts then happening. 1650 J. Twysden Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 67 For the ready supputation of the places of the planets. 1696 J. Aubrey Miscellanies 24 The skill of dealing with difficult supputations of Numbers not then discoverable. 1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. i. i. 8 The Julian Period..is a supputation of 7980 Years, invented by Julius Scaliger. 1797 P. Howard Scriptural Hist. Earth i. 94 The first period contains, according to my supputation, 1383 years from the deluge, but only 1033 according to the Hebrew chronology. 1825 A. Clarke Comm. Old Test. (Psalm lxxxi. 3) They..sent persons to the top of some hill..about the time which, according to their supputations, the new moon should appear. 1830 Standard 6 Apr. Seventeen hundred and ninety-seven years ago (according to the common supputation), another parliament was busily employed in carrying..a measure of ‘religious peace’. 1905 J. B. Bury Life St. Patrick App. 382 It is to be noted that in the Liber Armachanus two divergent subputations of Patrick's age are found. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun] weenc888 rightnessOE steemc1330 sight1362 witc1374 emprisea1393 reputation?c1400 apprizingc1449 nick?a1450 vail1471 countc1475 opinionc1480 estimationc1522 meting1548 reckoning1548 valuation1548 computation1558 account1583 cess1588 esteem1598 appreciation1605 resentiment1606 repute1610 ratea1616 assessmenta1626 estimate1637 vote1639 supputation1643 compute1646 value1651 resentment1655 contemplation1673 critique1798 appraisement1808 appraisal1817 viewa1854 sizing up1967 chit1989 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §18 In a wise supputation all things begin and end in the Almighty. View more context for this quotation 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxviii. 18 They have their supputations and conjectures. 1854 N. Wales Chron. 25 Nov. We pitched our tents..upon the banks of the Yarra Yarra, where the first night gold dreams and phantoms, with our supputation based on a honey fall, filled us with good pluck. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping shreddingc1000 putation?1440 snathing1485 loppingc1511 brushing1513 topping1513 twisting1535 pruning1548 heading1552 browsing1574 lop1575 disbranching1600 debranching1601 stocking1611 stowing1618 polling1626 supputation1656 summer pruning1669 snedding1720 shrouding1725 pollarding1794 thinning1800 brashing1950 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Supputation.., a pruyning or cutting Trees. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1475 |
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