单词 | geoponical |
释义 | geoponicaladj. Now rare. Of or relating to agriculture; (in later use also) provincial, bucolic. Cf. geoponic adj. 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 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. iii. 286 Authors Geoponicall, or which have treated de re Rustica, as Constantine, Marcus Cato, Columella, Palladius and Varro. View more context for this quotation 1753 Gentleman's Mag. June 267 A good geoponical reason may certainly be assign'd for it. 1789 Ann. Agric. 11 641 Progress in geoponical knowledge. 1852 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. 27 152 The early Hebrews were eminently geoponical and pastoral. 1880 12th Ann. Rep. Inspector Asylums 1879 (Office Prisons & Public Charities Ontario) 409 Our geoponical and horticultural operations have been fairly successful this year. 1986 R. Munter & C. L. Grose Englishmen Abroad i. 2 The joint impact of these traumatic historical developments was at last to jar the island from her geoponical complacency. DerivativesΚΠ 1814 Last Act i. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 365 Posterity will call it the Twistonian system of geoponicality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1646 |
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