单词 | geoponic |
释义 | geoponicn.adj. Now rare. A. n. A writer on agriculture; (also) †a practitioner of agriculture, a farmer (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > treatise or report > writer on agriculture geoponic1612 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion vi. 99 Naturalists, Historians and Geoponiques, as Varro, Columel, Pliny, Trogus and Solinus. 1640 W. Hamond Paradox sig. A4v What our Northerne Geoponicks labour for, by cultivating the earth, by planting and transplanting,..groweth here naturally. 1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 111 Theophrastus, and the Latin geoponics, never would have neglected to speak of the luxury and fecundity it [sc. the orange tree] displays. 1902 R. S. Nichols Eng. Pleasure Gardens vi. 167 Evelyn, a great authority on gardens at the height of this period, considered the writings of Tusser, Markham, Hartlib, and Walter Blith..as filled with more valuable information than could be found in Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladio, or the Greek Geoponics. 2006 D. L. Thurmond Handbk. Food Processing Anc. Rome iv. 169 It should come as no surprise that the geoponics have little to say about dry storage of most of the aforementioned root vegetables. B. adj. Of or relating to agriculture; agricultural. Also: †rustic, countrified, bucolic (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective] georgical1588 geoponical1646 agricultural1661 geoponic1663 georgic1690 agricolous1779 agric1812 ag1844 terracultural- the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective] > rustic or pastoral fieldena1425 grangyc1541 shepherdly1579 champestrial1612 geoponical1646 geoponic1663 Arcadian1667 bucolical1830 lane-born1834 bucolic1846 1663 Bullokar's Eng. Expositor (rev. ed.) Geoponick, belonging to tillage, or husbandry. 1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 13 The old Geoponic Authors, to whom I refer the Critical. 1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 2 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Our Modern Practitioners..understand as little of them, as they do of the Geoponick, Hieracosophick, or Cynogetick Physicks. 1792 A. Young Trav. France 283 In respect to the geoponic division of the soils of the kingdom, the rich calcareous plain of the north-eastern quarter first calls for our attention. 1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 21 The Remains of the Greek Geoponic writers. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. Notices 6 A brown, parchment-hided old man of the geoponic or bucolic species. 1860 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner (1891) xii. 166 Two or three notabilities of Rockland, with geoponic eyes. 1937 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 78 339 The material was placed in its secondary position in the process of geoponic activities. 1981 Agric. Hist. 55 8 Grosser's ‘primer of agriculture’..marked a turning point in the appreciation of the geoponic profession. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1612 |
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