单词 | ingathering |
释义 | ingatheringn. The action of gathering in or collecting (esp. the harvest); a gathering in, collection. Also figurative; applied spec. to the congregating of the Jews in Israel. Feast of Ingathering = Feast of Tabernacles. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] inning?1407 harvest1526 ingathering1535 shaking1623 harvesting1719 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xxxiv. 22 The feast of yngaderynge [1551 ingatherynge] at ye yeares ende. a1555 N. Ridley Let. in J. Bradford Writings (1853) (modernized text) II. 400 Make some ingatherings amongst your neighbours for the relief of them. 1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling (1672) vi. 153 The ingathering of his corn. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 92 The ingathering of their hay and corns, [was] executed with a sledge. 1861 Illustr. Times 5 Oct. 222 The great ingathering of the hops is completed. 1896 J. F. Youngson 40 Years Punjab Mission xxvii. 257 It resulted in the ingathering of thousands. 1952 S. Spender Learning Laughter iii. 36 But to-day there is another kind of paradox... This might be called the paradox of the Ingathering. 1964 Economist 16 May 703/1 The other chief fact of Israel, politically as well as economically, is the determination to make the in-gathering of Jews..viable and safe. 1971 Listener 14 Jan. 36/3 When Israel became a state on 15 May 1948 the first principle written into its proclamation of independence affirmed that ‘the state of Israel will be open to Jewish immigration and the in-gathering of the exiles’. 1973 Guardian 12 Mar. 10/3 Young Israelis..feel no mission to the Jews of the Diaspora. The ingathering of the exiles is a remote slogan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). ingatheringadj. Gathering in, gathering together. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathering, collecting, or coming together mustering1566 gathering1697 ingathering1887 1887 Advance 24 Mar. The ingathering streams are to branch off..into as many channels to empty the river as had united to fill it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1535adj.1887 |
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