| 单词 | economy of nature |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseconomy of nature c. Of the natural world as a whole, esp. in economy of nature; spec. as relating to the interdependence of living things. Now historical.The term economy of nature owed its popularization and specific use to the title of a work commonly attributed to Linnaeus ( I. J. Biberg & Linnaeus Oeconomia naturae (1749), see quot. 1759), in which the mutually useful and apparently ‘economical’ mechanisms connecting living beings are understood as purposefully designed and analogous with those operating within human economic systems. Cf. later ecosystem n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] shapec1050 composition1382 temperc1400 confectionc1420 temperament1471 frame?1520 compage1550 architecture1590 compacture1590 structure?1591 fabricaturec1600 constitution1601 membrature1606 composture1614 compositure1625 contexturea1639 composure1639 economy1644 fabric1644 conformation1646 composier1648 constructurea1652 compages1660 mechanism1662 compound1671 construction1707 componency1750 formation1774 make-up1821 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. x. 83 Bodies..do neuerthelesse mooue constantly and perpetually one way, the dense ones descending, and the rare ones ascending: not by any intrinsecall quality that worketh vpon them; but by the oeconomy of nature, that hath sett on foote due and plaine causes to produce known effects. 1704 T. Taylor Two Covenants God with Mankind ii. 158 'Tis one and the same God who rules both in the Oeconomy of Nature, and of Grace; and if he acts as a General cause in the one, he cannot be presum'd to act as a particular cause in the other. 1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. I. Biberg Oeconomy Nature in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 31 By the œconomy of nature we understand the all-wise disposition of the creator in relation to natural things, by which they are fitted to produce general ends, and reciprocal uses. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 579 He that hunts Or harms them there..Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm. 1814 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 104 72 The existence of oxygen in the atmosphere, and its action in the economy of nature..have necessarily caused it to occupy a great portion of the attention of chemists. 1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 15 Dec. 370/1 We see, then, that the economy of nature is, or should be, the economy of husbandry. 1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. iii. ix.423 Darwin..has arrived at the following conclusion regarding the use of hybridism in the economy of nature. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iii. 65 Some Protozoa play a very important part in the economy of Nature by contributing largely to the plankton (the drifting population) of the sea and the fresh waters. 2005 Smithsonian Dec. 60/1 According to the well-established creationist theory of Darwin's day, the exquisite adaptations of many species..were compelling evidence that a ‘designer’ had created each species for its intended place in the economy of nature. < as lemmas |
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