单词 | unmanured |
释义 | unmanuredadj. Agriculture. a. Of land: not worked or cultivated, untilled. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective] westeeOE wildc893 wastyc1230 wastec1290 untilled1297 void1398 wilsomea1400 desolate1413 wastablea1450 unlaboured1474 untilthed1495 spare1508 unmanured1541 unculted1548 uncultured1555 Hyrcan1567 untoiled1578 manureless1595 griggy1597 Wealdish1598 Hyrcanian1600 unwrought1600 wealy1601 uncultived1605 incult1624 unmanaged1634 incultivateda1657 uncultivate1659 uncultivated1684 unreclaimed1753 wildered1810 irreclaimed1814 natural1827 feral1882 1541 in Sc. Hist. Rev. (1910) 7 361 Had nocht bene the said abbot and convent remittit ane part of the said ferme the saidis tenentis and occupyaris of neid fors had left the saidis landis unmanurit or plenist. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 222/2 The prouince lay waste & vnmanured. 1585 R. Lane Let. 12 Aug. in Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1860) 4 12 A vaste Countrey yett unmannerde, though most apte for yt. 1623 Draft Petition Commissioners in V. A. Ives Rich Papers: Lett. Bermuda (1984) 268 The loss of this redounds to themselves..who doe still lett their Landes lie uncleared & unmanured. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 85 I could not find a foote of ground vnmanured. c1694 J. Dryden Let. in Wks. (1893) XVIII. 118 It looks like a vast tract of land newly discovered: the soil is wonderfully fruitful, but unmanured. 1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 222 To let braid tracts of land lie unmanur'd. 1759 in tr. C. de Bruyn Trav. into Moscovy, Persia, & East-Indies xiv. 109/2 Cyprus..is now so thinly inhabited that half the lands lie unmanured. b. figurative and in figurative context. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature green?a1300 rawa1398 indigest1398 unmatured?a1425 unripea1500 unseasonable1515 unbuilded1519 inchoate1534 unripened1561 uncivil1572 unmellowed1573 unmanured1577 unblown1587 ungrown1593 unpolished1594 rudimental1597 rude1600 unsalted1602 unseasoned1602 unlicked1612 embryon1613 unbakeda1616 unbloweda1616 unfledged1615 unmellow1615 sappya1627 embryous1628 unconcocteda1631 unkneaded1633 immature1635 sucking1648 vacuous1651 embryo1659 unelaborate1663 unmature1673 unformed1689 undeveloped1736 infantile1772 uncultivated1796 unelaborated1817 fetal1820 embryotic1823 embryonic1825 embryonary1833 sophomoric1837 seedling1843 rudimentary1851 unwrought1869 juvenescent1875 vealy1890 under-developed1892 1577 H. I. in tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. Pref. sig. ¶.ijv The Churche in this time is like lande that hath lyen..vnmanured, vncompassed, vntilled. 1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus 381 It argueth an unmanured wit. 1633 Sapho to Philaenis in J. Donne Poems 167 Thy body is a naturall Paradise, In whose selfe, unmanur'd, all pleasure lies. 1663 A. Cowley Ode Orinda's Poems ii 'Twere shame..if in thee A Spirit so rich..Should unmanur'd, or barren lye. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical vi. 69 Gallantry..which was formerly so well Cultivated,..is at present Desolate, Unmanur'd, and Abandoned! 1755 P. Furneaux Importance Educ. sig. C2 Schools..fit their [sc. children's] hands for business, but leave their hearts unmanured. 2. Not dressed or supplied with manure or other fertilizer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > manured or fertilized > not undungedc1440 unsoiled1616 unmanured1770 unsanded1843 1770 A. Young Course Exper. Agric. I. i. i. 119 (table) Average profit on the unmanured crops. 1795 J. Taylor Let. 5 Mar. in T. Jefferson Papers (2000) XXVIII. 295 My crop of corn is usually worth three times as much as my crop of wheat in unmanured ground. 1849 J. F. W. Johnston Exper. Agric. 105 The unmanured [crop] might have ripened its seed while the manured was still growing. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 419 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The average product of unmanured American soil. 1931 A. D. Hall Soil (ed. 4) iv. 139 The differences are less pronounced for the unmanured plot where a small crop had been grown than for the dunged plot with its larger crop. 2008 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 363 518/2 The manure was applied to the arable crops, resulting in crop yields much higher than could be achieved from unmanured crops grown continuously. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1541 |
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