单词 | environage |
释义 | environagen. Now rare. The aggregate of all the things, circumstances, etc., surrounding a person or thing; one's environment. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > that which surrounds > a surrounding space or area > totality of surroundings or environment circumstancea1340 encompassure1600 environry1600 vironry1600 attendment1646 circumambiency1646 ambience1648 environment1725 circumjacency1751 environ1762 environage1831 setting1841 enshrinement1849 entourage1850 milieu1854 surroundings1861 ambiente1862 mise-en-scène1871 surround1922 Umwelt1964 1831 Lady Morgan France in 1829–30 (ed. 2) II. Postscr. 567 Brought up, as he [sc. Napoleon II] had been, under the direction of Austria, and incapacitated for the duties of the kingly office by all his kingly environage. 1836 New Monthly Mag. 48 320 The slightest changes in the environage of the party. 1853 J. Abbott Hist. Alexander the Great iv. 63 One central river, which..escaped from the environage of mountains through a most celebrated dell called the Vale of Tempe. 1888 W. Whitman November Boughs 9 The petty environage and limited area of the poets of past or present Europe. 1917 Art World 2 272/2 A writer ‘who has been there’ and knows the environage of these mostly vanished marvels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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