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单词 gerent
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gerentn.adj.

/ˈdʒɪərənt/
Etymology: < Latin gerent-em, present participle of gerĕre to manage.
rare.
A. n.
One who holds an office; a manager, ruler. Also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun]
man of officec1300
officerc1380
officec1440
office manc1459
officiate1500
officiary1505
official1555
gerent1576
officiary1587
office-bearer1593
stallera1627
incumbent1672
designator1683
corrector1690
office-holder1818
city manager1909
postholder1961
1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 80 (margin) He meaneth the Augurship wherein they were both Gerents at one Time.
1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 182 Such a marriage-rite..Shall thrust him headlong from his gerent seat.
figurative.1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. 111 And so sympathy pairs with self-assertion, the two gerents of human life on earth.
B. adj.
(See quot.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > transference > [adjective] > relating to conveying or transporting > carrying
bearingOE
gerent1656
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Gerent, bearing or carrying.
1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
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