单词 | corsican |
释义 | Corsicann.adj. A. n. A native or inhabitant of Corsica; the Corsican dialect of Italian. the Corsican, Napoleon Bonaparte, who was born in Corsica. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > tyranny, despotism, or autocracy > one who tyrantc1290 Turk1536 Pharaoh1565 tyrannizer1602 domineerer1641 Corsican1739 Napoleon1821 Ozymandias1878 big-sticker1905 Mussolini1926 Hitler1930 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of France > Corsica Corsican1739 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Italian > varieties of courtesan1549 Roman1561 Tuscan1568 Lombard1598 Neapolitan1598 Venetian1598 Lucchese1642 Milanese1642 Piedmontese1642 Romanesco1792 Sicilian1818 Ligurian1835 Bolognese1839 Corsican1855 Florentine1855 Veronese1872 Emilian1878 Romanaccio1963 Torinese1975 1739 Gentleman's Mag. June 330/2 The Marquis de Maillebois has attack'd the Corsicans in their Posts on the Mountains. 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica 15 In general the Corsicans breathe a pure atmosphere. 1803 Ld. Nelson Let. 27 Aug. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 187 That man of tyranny, Buonaparte; but I detest Europe for being so mean~spirited as to submit to the mandates of this Corsican. 1814 R. Southey Ode ii If that perfidious Corsican maintain Still his detested reign. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Chron. Drum in Misc. (1855) I. 16 Good Lord, how he doth plume himself, Because we beat the Corsican! 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxviii. 242 Could the Corsican but have waited in his prison until all these parties were by the ears, he might have returned and reigned unmolested. 1855 R. Martineau tr. Gregorovius Corsica iv. vii. 283 That pantomimic dance of lament is called in Corsican the ballata. 1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 258/2 The Corsicans under General Paoli made themselves in great part independent. 1880 Chambers's Encycl. XIII. 494/2 In Southern Corsican dr for ll is conspicuous. 1897 Fortn. Rev. June 890 I could speak no Corsican. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. 21 Jan. 113/2 Make up your mind to charm the Corsican. 1968 Guardian 5 Jan. 9/7 The new rules for the baccalaureat do not allow..Basque, Catalan, or Corsican to be offered as subjects. B. adj. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of Corsica or its inhabitants. the Corsican ogre, the Corsican robber, etc.: Napoleon Bonaparte. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > France or Frankish land > [adjective] > Corsica Corsican1768 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [adjective] > Corsican Corsican1768 society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective] > tyrannical, despotic, or autocratic tyrant1297 tyrannous1491 Pharaonical1528 tyrannical1560 tyrannizing1589 servile1603 despotical1608 monarchicala1618 Nimrodian1631 autocratoric1641 Dominical1644 despotic1650 Pendragonish1650 autocratical1651 autocratorical1651 Pharaonian1673 autocratic1769 Pharaonic1792 Corsican1804 Napoleonic1810 satrapian1822 satrapical1823 sultanic1827 absolutist1829 absolutistic1841 arbitrary1862 Napoleonistic1870 Nimrodic1877 pre-Hitlerian1942 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica 29 The Corsican villages are frequently built upon the very summits of their mountains. 1803 S. Hoole Anecd. J. Hoole 1 The barbarities perpetrated by the Corsican Robber. 1804 Ld. Nelson Let. 10 Feb. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 411 I have no doubt but Egypt is the favourite and ultimate object of the Corsican tyrant. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiii. 108 The Corsican monster locked up at Elba. 1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 162 Corsican vengeance is proverbial. 1882 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 1 The Iron Duke had thrashed the Corsican Ogre. 1897 Fortn. Rev. June 887 To remove the false impression of the Corsican bandit so dear to the transpontine stage. 1964 D. Warner Death of Dreamer ii. i. 45 A tough French dope merchant, one of the Corsican Brotherhood. Compounds Corsican cock n. a variety of the domestic fowl. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > types of rumpkin1676 bantam1749 Jersey blue1758 Dorking1779 Plymouth Rock1806 Java1813 shack-bag1816 Negro fowl1835 creeper1847 Minorca1848 cuckoo fowl1850 Leghorn1850 Brahmapootra1851 Ancona1853 shanghai1853 Andalusian1854 Bolton bay1854 Corsican cock1854 jacinth1854 Minorca1854 spangle1854 yellow leg1854 Crèvecœur1855 sultan1855 Hamburg1857 Leghorn1857 Yokohama1865 Houdan1871 Langshan1871 Wyandot1881 sultan hen1882 silkie1885 Orpington1887 rock1889 silver-grey1889 Campine1892 Rhode Island Red1893 Faverolles1902 Rhode Island White1905 Malines1906 Rhode Island1914 Australorp1922 maranc1934 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 423 Chitteprat or Corsican Cock. 1855 Poultry Chron. 3 518 Chitteprat or Corsican. Corsican granite n. a mixture of feldspar, hornblende, and quartz. ΚΠ 1857 J. B. Jukes Man. Geol. 73 Globular Diorite, Orbicular Greenstone, Corsican Granite. Corsican moss n. Alsidium helminthocorton, a Mediterranean seaweed, formerly used as a vermifuge. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > other non-British medicinal plants or plant parts scammony1567 teamster's tea1728 buchu1731 goatweed1756 Iceland moss1785 argel1803 opopanax-wort1811 papoose root1811 ginseng1818 mad-dog weed1818 chirayta1829 Corsican moss1849 goatweed1864 devil's claw1876 sneezeweed1877 lingzhi1904 mountain pink1936 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > remedies for parasitic infections > [noun] > vermifuge or anthelminthic > plant-derived wormseedc1503 santonica1658 worm-grass1756 filix mas1789 worm-barkc1791 cowage1801 kamala1820 wormseed oil1830 Mucuna1836 santonin1838 Corsican moss1849 kousso1851 worm-oil1855 crab-oil1858 tallicoona oil1866 kainic acid1954 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §1130 Plocaria (Gigartina) Helminthocorton, under the name of Corsican Moss, was formerly used as a vermifuge. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Moss, Corsican, a supposed vermifuge, once in some repute, but now almost exploded. If genuine, it should consist of Gracilaria Helminthochorton, one of the rose-spored Algæ, but for this the common Laurencia obtusa is frequently substituted. 1887 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. V. 26/1 As a medicine Corsican moss is of the past. Corsican pine n. a slender pine, Pinus nigra maritima or P. laricio, used for forest planting. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies pine treeeOE pineOE pine-nut treec1330 pineapplec1390 pineapple treea1398 mountain pine1597 pine1597 mountain pine1601 frankincense1611 rosin flower?1611 black pine1683 Scotch pine1706 yellow pine1709 Jersey pine1743 loblolly pine1760 mugoa1768 Scots pine1774 Scotch fir1777 arrow plant1779 scrub pine1791 Georgia pine1796 old field pine1797 tamarack1805 grey pine1810 pond pine1810 New Jersey pine1818 loblolly1819 Corsican pine1824 celery-top pine1827 toatoa1831 heavy-wooded pine1836 nut pine1845 celery pine1851 celery-topped pine1851 sugar-pine1853 western white pine1857 Jeffrey1858 Korean pine1858 lodge-pole pine1859 jack pine1863 whitebark pine1864 twisted pine1866 Monterey pine1868 tanekaha1875 chir1882 slash-pine1882 celery-leaved pine1883 knee-pine1884 knobcone pine1884 matsu1884 meadow pine1884 Alaska pine1890 limber pine1901 bristlecone pine1908 o-matsu1916 insignis1920 radiata1953 1824 A. B. Lambert Descr. Genus Pinus II. 28 Pinus Laricio. Corsican Pine. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 402/1 The ridges of the Crimea are clothed with Corsican pine. 1957 M. Hadfield Brit. Trees 76 The Corsican pine was first grown in Britain in 1759. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1739 |
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