单词 | laborant |
释义 | laborantn.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] sickc888 lazar1340 sickmanc1340 laborant?a1425 suffererc1450 malade1483 patient1484 lazar-man1552 languisher1599 ruina1616 plaintiff1633 valetudinarist1651 valetudinaire?c1682 valetudinarian1703 invalid1709 infirm1711 invaletudinarian1762 valetudinary1785 complainant1861 aegrotant1865 degenerate1895 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 24 At lest þat þe passion be aleged & þat it noye noȝt to þe laborant [?c1425 Paris seke man]. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 8 (MED) He..þat is wayke of hert is noȝt in way of curacion..I haue sene but fewe laborante in þis vice heled in any sikenes. 2. A worker in a chemistry laboratory; a chemist's assistant; an experimental chemist. Frequently derogatory. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > general chemist > [noun] chemic1559 chemist1559 laborant1661 chymistatora1682 laboratorian1824 1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist Pref. sig. A7 I distinguish betwixt those Chymists that are either Cheats, or but Laborants, and the true Adepti. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. iii. sig. O2 As little as I am wont to reverence vulgar Chymists, I then envy'd their Laborants, whose imployment requires them to attend the Fire. 1680 R. Boyle Exper. & Notes Prodvcibleness Chymicall Princ. i. 39 in Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) We caused the Laborant with an iron rod dexterously to stirr the kindled part of the Nitre. 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 203 Glauber..a very Chymist or Laborant, and nothing at all of a clear Philosopher. 1800 T. Browne Union Dict. Laborant, a chymist, not in use. 1830 S. F. Gray & A. L. Porter Chem. of Arts I. 277 This part of the operation is very distressing to the laborants, on account of the muriatic acid gas which it continues to emit. 1994 S. Shapin Social Hist. Truth viii. 363 In the The Sceptical Chymist's usage..laborants were chemical mercenaries, undeniably possessing skill but not genuine knowledge. 2001 P. Ball Bright Earth iii. 83 The laborants might harbour a desire to attain the status of adepts; the adepts look upon the laborants as vulgar recipe-followers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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