单词 | ethologist |
释义 | ethologistn.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian jugglerc1175 foolc1300 jangler1303 fool sagec1330 ribald1340 ape-ward1362 japer1377 sage fool1377 harlotc1390 disporter?a1475 jocular?a1475 joculatora1500 jester?1518 idiot1526 scoffer1530 sporter1531 dizzardc1540 vice1552 antic1564 bauble-bearer1568 scoggin1579 buffoon1584 pleasant1595 zany1596 baladine1599 clown1600 fiddle1600 mimic1601 ape-carrier1615 mime1616 mime-man1631 merry man1648 tomfool1650 pickle-herring1656 badine1670 puddingc1675 merry-andrew1677 mimical1688 Tom Tram1688 Monaghan1689 pickled herring1711 ethologist1727 court-foola1797 Tom1817 mimer1819 fun-maker1835 funny man1839 mimester1846 comic1857 comedian1860 jokesman1882 comique1886 Joey1896 tummler1938 alternative comedian1981 Andrew- 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Ethologist,..a Mimick, one who expresses other Peoples Manners by Voice or Gesture. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Ethologist, one that shews the manners of others, one that imitates the customs and manners of others. 1809 G. Burnett tr. J. Milton Prose Wks. II. 409 You have fantastically got up this fable, as if for scenic representation, bravely embellished, after what ethologist [L. ethologum] I know not, with comic introductions and pithy sentences, as baits for vulgar ears. 1849 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 16 June 371/2 Let us not be told that fictions succeed when they are mere sketches of character..; we are..not depreciating the merit of ethologists and colourists as such, but denying that they are..artists. 2. A writer on or student of ethics and manners; an ethicist. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > science of mankind > [noun] > anthropology > cultural or social > person ethologist1828 agriologist1875 social anthropologist1894 cultural anthropologist1911 culturalist1929 culturologist1943 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Ethologist, one who writes on the subject of manners and morality. 1844 Brit. & Foreign Rev. 16 88 Many elements of the social state are at variance with such creed... A great problem is here set for the ethologist to solve. 1930 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 40 155 Whether ethologist or polemicist, M. Bayet..deems himself exempt from ‘founding’ his personal faith on his very conception of ethics. 3. Zoology. An expert in or student of the science of ethology (ethology n. 4). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > zoology > [noun] > zoologist > one who studies specific aspect of zoology faunist1766 marine zoologist1862 zoologico-archaeologist1864 zoogeographer1868 neo-zoologist1870 neontologist1889 animal psychologist1894 palaeozoologist1897 ethologist1905 animal behaviourist1914 archaeozoologist1938 1905 Science 7 Apr. 536/1 It might even be said that the ethologist has no right to speak of a process as a character or characteristic. 1957 New Scientist 12 Sept. 38/2 Ethologists have set about a detailed study of ‘instinctive’ behaviour in many mammals including man. 1993 G. Cashman What Causes War? ii. 16 The major thesis of the ethologists is that man is the product of two million years of biological evolution. 2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies iii. 58 If the eggs are scattered by, say, an ethologist or during an aggressive encounter with another earwig, they quickly gather them together again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1727 |
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