单词 | colonized |
释义 | colonizedadj.n. A. adj. I. That has been established as a colonist, and related senses. 1. Of a person: that has been established as a colonist; settled or resettled in a colony. Now rare (chiefly historical in later use).In later use chiefly with reference to the settlers of a Roman colonia (see colony n. 1a). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > colonized colonized1632 settled1831 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 431 [Thieves and outlaws in Ireland are] a great discouragment for our collonizd plantators there. 1760 J. Mills tr. J. B. L. Crevier Hist. Rom. Emperors VI. xvii. ii. 315 Some pieces of land, part of what had been destined to be distributed among the colonised troops, but which was still unsettled, he gave to the actual possessors of them. 1833 Sheffield Independent 13 July The American [Colonization] Society had been established in order to get rid of free colonized people of colour. 1970 J. M. Carter Battle of Actium viii. 108 An embassy from two colonized legions of Caesar's veterans, who had served under Antony, added their voices to the plea for negotiation. 2. U.S. Politics. Of a voter: that has moved or been moved into a district in order to vote (typically illegally or irregularly) for one party in an election. Also: †designating a vote cast by such a voter (obsolete). Now rare (chiefly historical after 1930s). ΚΠ 1840 N. Amer. & Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) 29 Oct. The Democratic Whig Young Men..are requested to assemble.., for the purpose of taking such measures as will defeat the fraudulent attempt..to destroy the purity of our elections by colonized voters. 1856 N.-Y. Daily Times 4 Nov. 4/4 A more desperate attempt will be made to-day, to elect local candidates by means of spurious and colonized votes, than at any previous period in our municipal history. 1916 Statesman (Austin, Texas) 14 Nov. 1/1 Alleged senators were elected by ‘colonized’ votes. 1939 Christian Sci. Monitor 25 May 22/5 Thousands of names of illegal or colonized voters in the Kansas City wards have been stricken from the poll lists. 1985 Polit. Sci. Q. Winter 100 681 An all-Democratic jury refused to return indictments against Democratic election officials despite voluminous evidence of repeaters, colonized voters, and other fraudulent acts. 3. Biology. Of a plant, animal, microorganism, etc.: that has formed or established a colony; esp. that has been deliberately introduced or bred in an artificial colony (cf. colonization n. 4b, colonize v. 4b). ΚΠ 1932 U.S. Dept. Agric.: Yearbk. 238 The results of these studies have shown a rapid building up of the colonized insects. 1949 CDC Bull. July 34/2 Progeny of wild-caught and colonized strains of [Anopheles]quadrimaculatus were compared. 1972 Amer. Naturalist 106 684 Newly colonized species in an open habitat sometimes seem to expand their ecological niche beyond that utilized in their source habitat. 1994 MMWR Recommendations & Rep. (U.S. Centres for Disease Control & Prevention) No. RR-7 2 Colonized laboratory rats have also been infected with Seoul virus. 2012 Ecology 93 757/2 The downward break of the curve of young sites may be due to recently colonized species still having small populations. II. That has been settled by colonists, and related senses. 4. a. Of a place: that is established as a colony; settled by colonists; under the control of a colonial power. ΚΠ 1702 J. Harris Leighton-Stone-Air 6 From the wealthy Town, Herself a Colonized City grown, She steals an easy distance to behold Augusta's Phenix Pinnacles of Gold. 1786 T. Seddon Lett. to Officer I. xiii. 158 A colonized country has a natural claim to the protection of its mother, and, when fostered to maturity, a grateful return of the obligations received should extend no farther than an equilibrium of subjection with all other subjects of the same government. 1813 Considerations on Colonial Policy 9 Are we to assume it as a general maxim, that to colonized territories obtained by cession, similar privileges and benevolences are to be granted? 1863 J. Davis Tracks of McKinlay 230 ‘The running of the creek’ is quite an event in many parts of colonized Australia. 1936 Foreign Affairs 14 627 The railway that serves the colonized area of Kenya represents a still unrefunded cost to the home government of over $20,000,000. 1970 Caribbean Studies July 90 It is not surprising that..English usage in colonised places also had its period of graduation before being lexicographically chronicled. 2021 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 June 37/3 But we also have the Paris agreement, and climate equity was written into it so that developed rich nations were tasked with paying more and doing more and helping the historically disadvantaged and even colonized nations. b. Of an indigenous person, population, etc.: that has been made subject to the political rule of a colonial power.Somewhat rare before mid 20th cent. ΚΠ 1831 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 4 119 In every colony,..the manners and usages of the colonized people will insensibly glide into something like an imitation of those by whom they are colonized, and Tacitus tells us that it is the surest means by which a people can be retained under dominion. 1958 R. Matthews tr. G. Tillion Algeria iii. 33 The colonizing settler is to the colonized population rather what insulin is to the diabetic, at once a sign of his illness and a temporary palliative. 1992 S. J. Ortiz Woven Stone 20 As a colonized indigenous person, I was more familiar with the larger society than my own because that society in influence, numbers, and political economic impact was overwhelming. 2017 S. Alexie You don't have to say you love Me cxxix. 338 I think many Indians consciously and subconsciously seek the approval of white folks. As a colonized people, we tend to perform our Indianness as a way of asserting our identities. c. Of the mind, culture, etc.: affected, influenced, or formed by the experience of colonization or subjection to colonial rule, its power structures, etc. Chiefly in academic contexts. ΚΠ 1967 Darlite (Dar es Salaam) 4 ii. 44 Much of Fanon's book..is taken up with..analysis of literary material taken mainly from..the West Indies and illustrative of the immediate motivation and the processes of the workings of the colonized mind of the black man and woman. 1985 Southern Rev. (Univ. of Adelaide) July 143 The period when women's writing was compared with black writing, and both were described in terms of the politics of the colonised body. 1992 S. Gikandi Writing in Limbo i. 41 The emigration of the Caribbean writer to ‘the tempestuous island of Prospero's and his language’ is not so much a journey of conquest in reverse as an attempt to expropriate the master's language to redefine and transform the colonized cultural space. 2013 FT Weekend 28 Sept. (Mag.) 7/3 As Sen notes, anti-westerners demeaned themselves by thinking so much about the west... Such people have ‘colonised minds,’ says Sen. 5. Biology. Settled or inhabited by (esp. newly established) colonies of a plant, animal, microorganism, etc.; (of an area, habitat, substrate, host organism, etc.) subjected to colonization by an organism. ΚΠ 1918 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1916–17 28 289 Being enclosed in a glass globe..subjected both the plant and its tenants [sc. insect pests] to a temperature several degrees higher than would have been the condition if the colonized plant were openly exposed to air. 1957 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 26 291 Grey squirrels apparently disappeared from some of the recently colonized areas in 1955. 1997 Jrnl. Amer. Dental Assoc. 128 1449/1 There are two major mechanisms for the introduction of MRSA: the admission of an infected or colonized patient..; the transmission from a carrier patient to another patient by way of the transiently colonized hands of health care personnel. 2010 T.H. Fleming et al. in T. H. Fleming & P. A. Racey Island Bats 134 More recently colonized islands will contain less genetic diversity than earlier-colonized islands. B. n. ΚΠ 1848 Afr. Repository & Colonial Jrnl. (Washington D.C.) Jan. 21/1 In this way the colonized [sc. Egyptians settled in Greece under Cecrops] were untrameled, and upon an arena on which they could exert themselves to the development of those faculties with which God has endowed man. 1882 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 21 Jan. 2/2 No less than 500 families must be settled [sc. in Mexico] the first five, and 2,000 the first ten years. Three-fifths of the colonized must be Europeans. 2. With the and plural agreement: people subjected to colonial settlement and rule, considered as a class or group. Also (in quot. 1920) with singular agreement: a person, country, nation, etc., subjected to colonial rule. Frequently contrasted with colonizer. ΚΠ 1920 Jrnl. Royal Afr. Soc. 20 59 Modern civilisation can only have honourable and lasting results if the colonised gets from colonisation as much advantage as the coloniser, and that, if there is any doubt, it should be in favour of the colonised. 1938 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 32 197 The second part of the book, devoted to the relation between the colonizers and the colonized, discusses such questions as colonial problems, the population problem, native production, labor, and principles of colonial administration. 1976 I. M. Lewis Social Anthropol. in Perspective ix. 283 It formed part of a wider colonial philosophy which showed respect, however distantly and paternalistically, for the traditional institutions of the colonized. 2018 E. Morales Latinx v. 140 The fraught nature of the clash between the colonizer and the colonized, are contained within one body space. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < adj.n.1632 |
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