单词 | miri |
释义 | † mirin.1 Obsolete. rare. A physician. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] physician?c1225 leecherc1374 practiserc1387 doctora1400 flesh-leecha1400 leechman14.. mediciner?a1425 miria1425 M.D.1425 medicine?c1450 practitioner?1543 minister1559 doc1563 artist1565 medicus1570 medicianera1578 Aesculapius1586 Dra1593 pisspot1592 medician1597 physicianer1598 medicinary1599 pisspot1600 velvet-cap1602 healer1611 Galena1616 physiner1616 clyster1621 clyster-pipe1622 hakim1623 medic1625 practicant1630 medico1647 physicker1649 physicster1689 Aesculapian1694 nim-gimmer1699 pill-monger1706 medical man1784 meester1812 medical1823 pill-gilder1824 therapeutist1830 pill1835 pill roller1843 med1851 pill-peddler1855 therapeutic1858 squirt1859 medicine man1866 pill pusher1879 therapist1886 doser1888 internist1894 pill-shooter1911 whitecoat1911 quack1919 vet1925 a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 22 For þi sal sho do als te wyse miri dos, þat wyl hele þe seke. a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 23 Þan sal þabbes do als te sleȝe miri [L. medicus]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2019). Mirin.2adj. A. n.2 1. A member of an originally hill-dwelling people of the eastern Himalayas who subsequently settled in the Assam valley.The term is not used by the peoples themselves: see etymological note and quot. 1981. ΚΠ 1828 J. B. Neufville in Asiatic Researches 16 334 The river..washes the country inhabited by the tribe of Mírís, a nearly barbarous race, rudely armed with bows and arrows, and differing altogether in language, appearance, and manners from the inhabitants of Asam proper... The Mírís..are very expert in the management of the bow. 1890 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 19 182 Outline Grammar of the Shai'yâng Miri Language, as spoken by the Miris of that Clan residing in the neighbourhood of Sadiyah. 1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 773/1 The hill and frontier tribes of Assam include the..Singphos, Daphlas, Miris..&c., nearly all of whom..are found near the frontiers of Lakhimpur district. 1981 N. C. Pegu Mishings Brahmaputra Valley p. vi Though they are named as ‘Miri’ in the list of scheduled tribes of Assam by Constitutional order, 1950 and subsequent amendments, they call themselves as ‘Mishing’ not without pride. To them, the term ‘Miri’ is ambiguous and rings derogatory. 2. Any of a number of Tibeto-Burman languages of the Miris. ΚΠ 1837 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 6 ii. 1026 The A'bors occupy the lofty ranges of the mountains... The Mirí is a dialect of this language, which is spoken by the people of the plains; but is said not to be essentially different from the language of the highlands. 1875 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 157 The languages of North-west Bengal..are Bodo, Borro, Kachari, and Dhimal; and the Miri (Abor and Sibsagur) of the eastern frontier of Bengal. 1909 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India III. i. 569 Miri and Mishmi are said to possess tones. 1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (United Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 1/2 North Assam languages..Adi (Abor), and Miri are spoken in North East Frontier Agency and northeast Assam, India, and in Tibet. 1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 568 Some sources separate Adi and Miri as two languages. B. adj. Of or relating to the Miris or their languages. ΚΠ 1872 E. T. Dalton Descriptive Ethnol. Bengal i. v. 29 The Miri girls dance the somewhat sensual Bihu dance with great spirit. 1882 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 11 54 Fig. 3 shows the Miri houses, in lines also or rows, near river banks, north and north-east of Assam. 1890 [see sense A. 1]. 1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (United Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 1/2 Abor Miri..is one of the mutually understood dialects of more than 100,000 Miri tribesmen and an undetermined number of Adis. 1981 N. C. Pegu tr. Proverb in Mishings Brahmaputra Valley i. 1 The Miri woman laments looking at the peak of mountains when her husband dies. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1425n.2adj.1828 |
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