单词 | dialist |
释义 | dialistn. A maker of, or expert in, sundials. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > making or regulating > one who makes or regulates clockmaker1374 horologer1496 regular1513 clocksmith1556 clock setter1574 clock keeper1576 clockman1613 clock master1629 dialler1650 dialist1652 horologiographian1688 clock winder1720 horologiographer1727 horologist1798 timer1876 1652 T. Stirrup (title) Horometria: or, the compleat diallist. 1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 346 Helps to a young Dyalist for his more orderly and quick making of Dyals. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. 1 The architect, the navigator, the dialist. 1805 D. Brewster Ferguson's Lect. Mech. (new ed.) II. 15 But lest the young dialist should have neither globe nor wooden scale..we shall now shew him how he may make a dial without any of these helps. 1883 W. Jolly Life J. Duncan xi. 102 John Duncan also became a theoretical and practical diallist, making dials for himself and his friends. 1917 Art World June 299/1 We all have a sympathetic feeling for the dialist who wrote: ‘The gods confound the man who first found out, how to distinguish hours’. 1962 Math. Teaching Oct. 490/2 Others were land surveyors, gaugers, dialists, gunners, engineers. 2004 Sunday News (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 1 Aug. g1 Clark, 56, is a dialist. He designs, collects and studies sundials. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1652 |
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