单词 | agricolation |
释义 | agricolationn. rare after 18th cent. The theory or practice of cultivating the soil; agriculture. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] earth-tilthOE earth-tillingOE tilling?c1225 delving1377 laboura1393 land-tillingc1420 culturec1450 tilthing1495 labouring1523 manurea1547 manuring1550 digging1552 cultivation1553 tilth1565 manurance1572 agriculture1583 nithering1599 culturation1606 gainor1607 delvage1610 agricolation1623 gainage1625 cultivage1632 manurementa1639 groundwork1655 fieldwork1656 proscission1656 field labour1661 manuragea1670 subduing1776 management1799 subjugation1800 geopony1808 clodhopping1847 agriculturism1885 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Agricolation, tillage of ground. 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Agriculture, Agricolation (agricultura) husbandry or Tillage of Land. 1794 M. Forster Let. 13 Mar. in A. Young Ann. Agric. 22 337 The improvement of the first art upon earth (Agricolation). 1798 J. S. Murray Gleaner III. 220 She is mistress of agricolation, and is at once a botanist and a florist. 1840 in Proc. Geol. & Polytechnic Soc. W. Riding Yorks. (1849) 1 134 Those employed in the agricolation of Great Britain undervalue those substances which constitute the chief food of the vegetable kingdom. 1912 Year Bk. Central Conf. Amer. Rabbis 22 336 It is an axiom of agricolation that the soil must be made suitable for the crop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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