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单词 embarkation
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embarkationn.

/ɛmbɑːˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: Also 1500s–1800s embarcation, 1700s imbarkation, imbarcation.
Etymology: < French embarcation, < embarquer embark v.
1. The action or process of embarking. literal and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > action of taking ship
embarkage1577
embarking1591
embarkment1596
embarkation1645
embark1655
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > putting persons or things on board
shipping1483
embarking1591
embarkment1596
embarkation1645
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xvii. 32 I can find no commodity of embarcation at Saint Malos.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 23 Very sollicitous for the Embarcation of the Army.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 172 To hasten the embarkation of the troops.
1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 6 I shall delay the embarkation.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 222 The point of embarcation was close by the..abode of Godwine.
attributive.1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Sept. 8/2 The embarkation list..will include twenty-three officers.1899 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 10/2 As the ship was about to sail, investigations were made, and..the embarkation officer went aboard to see the supply.1904 Daily Chron. 6 Sept. 6/7 The embarkation staff at the port.1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 2 Every one was new to embarkation-duty.1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night iii. 322 And back home in Suffolk on embarkation leave he had listened to a sermon.
2. concrete. A body of troops embarked, gone or put on board ship. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > embarkation party
embarkation1720
1720 London Gaz. No. 5877/1 The Transports..were taking on Board the third..Imbarkation.
a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 503 Another and much greater embarkation followed.
3. A vessel, boat. Obsolete. [compare French embarcation, Spanish embarcacion.]
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun]
shipc725
beamOE
boardOE
bargea1300
steera1300
vessela1300
treea1382
loomc1400
man1473
ark1477
bottom1490
keela1547
riverboat1565
craft1578
pine1592
class1596
flood-bickerer1599
pitchboard1599
stern-bearer1599
wooden horse1599
wooden isle1603
water treader?1615
water house1616
watercraft1618
machine1637
prore1642
lightman1666
embarkation1690
bark1756
prowa1771
Mudian1813
bastiment1823
hooker1823
nymph1876
M.F.V.1948
1690 London Gaz. No. 2525/1 They have..taken divers..small Embarkations.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4115/4 Sloops, and other Imbarcations.
1781 Rennell in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 106 Embarkations..traverse the inundation.
1795 H. T. Colebrooke Remarks Husbandry & Commerce Bengal i. 5 The peasants repairing to the market..on embarkations.
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xliii. 238 A..rotten and crazy embarkation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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