missionaryn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmɪʃn̩əri/,

/ˈmɪʃn̩ri/, U.S.

/ˈmɪʃəˌnɛri/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin missionarius.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin missionarius (c1620 or earlier) < classical Latin missiōn- , missiō mission n. + -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare French missionnaire (1624 as noun, 1685 as adjective), Italian missionario (1622 or earlier as noun, 20th cent. as adjective), Spanish misionero (mid 17th cent. as noun and adjective; also †misionario ), Portuguese missionário (mid 17th cent. as noun). Compare slightly later missionaire n., missioner n.

A. n.

a. A person sent on or engaged in a religious mission abroad. Also: a person engaged in evangelical or humanitarian work at home. Frequently with distinguishing word, as foreign missionary (see also city missionary n. at city n. Compounds 2, home missionary n. at home n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts

missionary1625

missioner1654

gospeller1673

umfundisi1825

God-man1842

moruti1866

missionizer1901

missionist1909

mish1939

1625 E. Chaloner Credo Ecclesiam Sanctam Catholicam i. vii. 68 Veronus, hath..procured letters Patents for the establishing of a French Congregation of Missionaries, as hee termes them.

1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 296 Should the Jesuits of Italy..send thither their Missionaries.

1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 4 The King sent through all his Kingdom Missionaries to instruct the Protestants..in the Roman Religion.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 375 The Jesuite Missionaries of Paraguay.

1791 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 316 Why are we not all devoted to God; breathing the whole spirit of Missionaries?

1824 Cape Chron. in S. Afr. Jrnl. 1 76 Mr Moffat..Missionary of the Kuruman..has lately arrived in Cape Town..accompanied by five women and a boy of the marauding nation called ‘Mantatees’.

1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 1 232 I had occasion to accompany a home missionary into a few of the dens of London.

1852 A. Essex in A. Rabone Rec. of Pioneer Family (1966) 19 The pseudo-philanthropists and the self-righteous missionaries..have no sympathy to spare for the plundered, ruined, bereaved Colonists.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §3. 23 The missionaries of the new faith appeared fearlessly among the Mercians.

1891 M. Williams Later Leaves 390 The great assistance magistrates receive from the thirteen missionaries attached to the different Courts.

1891 M. Williams Later Leaves 397 My Court missionary saw the two off by train.

1916 C. A. Eastman From Deep Woods to Civilization 132 White men with Indian wives and missionaries, may be ordered off the reservation as ‘disturbers of the peace’.

1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond ii. 22 The Seventh Day Adventists were the busiest missionaries in Turkey and the Levant.

1979 G. MacEwan Pat Burns, Cattle King (1981) vi. 45 The good people of that city took him for a foreign missionary home on furlough and treated him with appropriate respect.

1991 Bull. Centre Sci. Devel., Pretoria Mar. 3 The missionaries failed to transform the nomadic Khoikhoi into sedentary agricultural and trading communities.

b. In extended use.

ΚΠ

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 92 That Politick Engine who..was employed by some of Oxford as a Missionary amongst the Nonconformists of the adjacent Counties.

1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Mar. (1932) (modernized text) III. 892 I would not, at twenty years, be a preaching missionary of abstemiousness and sobriety.

a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 181 The fanatic missionaries of sedition have scattered the seeds of discontent in our cities.

1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) ii. 66 The wise man..when..his duties..call him from his house, or into foreign lands,..shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue.

1890 R. Buchanan Coming Terror (1891) 83 My father was one of Robert Owen's missionaries.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xvi. 291 We're frankly missionaries, not an art for art concern.

1975 Listener 17 July 94/3 Not that Mr Evans is a preacher—some ecological guru, or the latest missionary for F. R. Leavis's organic community.

1992 Daily Tel. (BNC) 15 Apr. 43 (heading) Diesel Cars: Meet the diesel missionary from Dagenham.

†2. = Lazarist n., Vincentian n.¹ Cf. mission n. 3b. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > other religions > Lazarist > [noun]

Congregation of the Priests of the Mission1656

missionary1656

Lazarite1728

Lazarist1747

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Missionaries,..Also, a particular institute in France, called the Fathers of the Mission; who go by pairs,..preach and catechize, and perform other pastoral Offices.

†3. An agent or emissary; esp. a person sent on a political mission. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > person sent on a mission

emissary1631

missioner1654

missionaire1687

missionary1693

envoy1696

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy

sand1038

sandesman1123

sanderbodec1200

erendes-manc1275

sand-manc1275

legatec1350

embassadora1398

ambassador1417

bassatourc1450

orator1474

messenger1535

vakeel1622

public minister1624

minister1647

envoy1666

wakeel1803

missionary1821

elchee1824

ambassador-at-large1868

1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 101 The Agents of the party would employ their little Missionaries to gather Stories from all corners of the Country.

1777 E. Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol 73 That this ill-natured doctrine should be preached by the missionaries of a court I do not wonder.

1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 97 The diplomatic missionaries of Europe at Paris.

1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 64 Mr. Triptolemus Yellowley, who was the chosen missionary of the Chamberlain of Orkney and Zetland.

†4. A missionary body or establishment. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts > collectively

mission1622

missionary1719

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 273 Christianity..was once planted here by a Dutch Missionary of Protestants.

1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 172 There were then..612 jesuits colleges, 340 residuaries, 59 noviciates, 200 missionaries, and 24 professors houses of that society.

†5. New Zealand. A Christian, esp. a Maori convert to Protestantism. Cf. mihanere n. Obsolete.

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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun] > one who has undergone

proselytec1384

converse1388

convert1561

convertitec1592

convertist1611

missionary1834

mihanere1840

vert1864

proselytess1879

1834 E. Markham N.Z. Recoll. (1963) 32 They are all Missionaries as they call the Christians.

1840 N.Z. Jrnl. 5 Dec. 292/2 The natives..call themselves missionaries, having embraced Christianity.

1841 N.Z. Jrnl. 10 Apr. 87/2 I asked whether it was true, that he had given up all fighting intrigues, and become a missionary.

1854 R. E. Malone Three Years' Cruise Australasian Colonies iii. 22 Mihaneri (missionaries—the universal name, in New Zealand, for Protestant Christians).

6. New Zealand. The sweet briar, Rosa eglanteria, introduced by missionaries and now an invasive weed. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [noun]

brierc1000

eglaterea1400

eglantinec1400

hound's thornc1420

dogberry1527

dog-briar1530

sweet-briar1538

brier-bush1562

dog bramble1567

canker1582

dog rose1597

canker rose1606

dog-thorn1694

cynorrhodon1706

bramble-rose1713

Scotch rose1731

white dog rose1770

brier-rose1810

bull-brier1860

missionary1881

burnet-rose1884

1881 F. Larkworthy N.Z. Revisited 30 The sweetbriar, which here [i.e. at Tarawera] goes by the name of the ‘Missionary’, blocking the roads and vacant spaces.

1898 W. P. Reeves Long White Cloud i. 17 The sweetbriar..covers whole hillsides, to the ruin of pasture. Introduced, innocently enough, by the missionaries, it goes by their name in some districts.]

1912 B. E. Baughan Brown Bread from Colonial Oven iii. 48 ‘Missionary’, in the North Island is frequently an alternative spelling for ‘sweet~brier’, which is a pest.

1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxvii. 274 Sweet-briar..‘Missionary’ as it is still called, has been spread abroad by the horse.

B. adj.

1. Relating to or connected with a religious mission; sent on or engaged in a mission; proper to or characteristic of a person sent on or engaged in a mission; occupied in or characterized by the work of a mission. Also in extended use.Some of the examples given may illustrate attributive use of the noun: cf. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [adjective]

missionary1644

missional1907

1644 in H. Foley Rec. Eng. Province Soc. Jesus (1878) III. 89 They seemed..firmly united in the several graces of priestly and apostolical missionary vocation.

1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning 20 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. These [records] are agreed, by the Missionary Jesuits, to extend so far above Four Thousand Years.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 265 The missionary Priests usually went thither [sc. to Macao], in Order to their going forward to China.

1767 B. Franklin in London Chron. 9 Apr. Even the Missionary Clergy..cannot forbear acquainting the Bishops..that they are indeed very diligent in their respective missions.

1813–15 (title) Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East.

1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. ix. 166 One of those little accidents which chequer missionary life in Spain.

1854 in C. C. Richards Village Life Amer. (1912) 47 If we wanted to take shares in the missionary ship, Morning Star, we could buy them at 10 cents apiece.

1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xviii. 150 Mrs. Shapcote sent out invitations to a missionary tea in honour of him [sc. a missionary].

1875 F. M. Müller Chips from German Workshop IV. 265 The three missionary religions, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and Christianity.

1933 P. A. Eaddy Hull Down v. 108 On some missionary hooker where they'll want to dish up two prayer meetings in the one week to all hands.

1965 Listener 1 July 15/1 Dante is more than a poet and his Comedy more than a poem. His prime purpose in writing is missionary and prophetic.

1988 Computer Graphics World Feb. 26/1 This is still a vendor-driven market that will require missionary selling and market education.

1990 Newsweek 19 Feb. 24 Mandela grew up at a time when well-born South African blacks were given rigorous, moralistic, missionary educations.

†2. Sent out or forth. Obsolete (archaic and poetic in later use).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > [adjective] > sent on a mission

missivea1450

emissary1685

missionary1691

missioned1796

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 330 The Missionary Angels that have the Charge and Office of Guardians here upon Earth.

1699 J. Pomfret Love Triumphant in Poems (1724) 28 Cupid..Who Troops of missionary Loves commands.

1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vi. 86 The night..calling By missionary winds and twilight birds.

Compounds

Missionary Baptist n. U.S. a Baptist who engages in missionary work.

ΚΠ

1849 E. Chamberlain Indiana Gazetteer (ed. 3) 72 A large majority of this denomination are Missionary Baptists, and the minority is rapidly diminishing.

1891 H. F. O'Beirne Leaders Indian Territory 184/2 He is a missionary Baptist and a good christian.

1949 Sat. Evening Post 22 Oct. 122/4 He entered the Missionary Baptist ministry as a young man, and for ten years filled pastorates in the Carolinas.

1978 C. Trillin Sound of Eating in Alice, let's Eat 164 The ladies from the Second Mount Triumph Missionary Baptist Church have a booth again selling the fried chicken that apparently caused Jaffe to seek salvation last year.

missionary barrel n. U.S. a barrel or box of clothing and other goods supplied to a remote missionary by his or her church.

ΚΠ

1866 Debates & Proc. Nat. Council Congregational Churches (Amer. Congregational Assoc.) 424 What we cannot give away in our own parish,..we put into the Home Missionary barrels, and send them to the home missionaries to give away.]

1885 Amer. Missionary May 150 Letter..written by one of the Indian girls..in reply to a little girl who sent a bonnet in a missionary barrel.

1952 J. H. Giles 40 Acres & No Mule 183 The next time you pack a missionary barrel remember that I wear a size 14 dress, a 6-½ shoe, and I am badly in need of a lightweight, rainproof coat!

1992 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) 615/2 Part of that help came in the form of the missionary barrel, which was a box of clothing for his family, sent by an eastern congregation that had ‘adopted’ him.

missionary bishop n. a bishop who engages in missionary work, without responsibility for a particular see.

ΚΠ

1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 258 He was ordained in France a missionary bishop, without any fixed see, in 628.

1866 J. C. Patteson Let. 1 Jan. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) II. x. 160 I value much these memorials of the first Missionary Bishop of the Church of England.

1971 J. Manton Sister Dora xvi. 272 Selwyn of Lichfield..had been the first missionary bishop in Melanesia.

missionary box n. a box for the reception of contributions to the funds of a missionary society.

ΚΠ

1822 Missionary Herald (Boston) Jan. 22 Donations... A miss. box kept in the room of Mr. John Blatchford of the Theo. Sem.]

1830 ‘C. C. Socio’ in Post-Chaise Compan. 56 Missionary box.

1854 C. M. Yonge Castle Builders v. 69 The chimney-piece ornamented with missionary boxes and cards for shilling and penny subscriptions.

1942 A. P. Jephcott Girls growing Up iii. 58 We redeemed ourselves..by working hard for a missionary box.

1981 D. Davie Coll. Poems (1990) 312 The Mission Fields ripe for the scything Gospel cost him a weekly penny. The missionary box!

missionary position n. [see quots. 1929¹] a position for sexual intercourse in which a woman lies underneath a man, facing him.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > position in intercourse > specific

knee-chest position1935

missionary position1948

cowgirl1993

reverse cowgirl1993

1929 B. Malinowski Sexual Life of Savages x. 284 The natives [of the Trobriand Islands] despise the European position and consider it unpractical and improper.

1929 B. Malinowski Sexual Life of Savages xiii. 403 Tokolibeloa, once a famous Don Juan,..insisted that this was misinari si bubunela, ‘missionary fashion’, one of the novel immoralities introduced by Christianity.]

1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male x. 373 Malinowski..notes that caricatures of the English-American position are performed around the communal campfires, to the great amusement of the natives [sc. the Trobrianders of the south-western Pacific] who refer to the position as the ‘missionary position’.

1969 Daily Tel. 10 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 7 In six States [in the U.S.] a woman may still be awarded a divorce if her husband makes love to her in any other than the missionary position.

1987 Atlantic Feb. 52/1 I had been a straight missionary-position type until I met John.

missionary rector n. Roman Catholic Church (now historical) the priest in charge of a Roman Catholic mission in England.

ΚΠ

1865 Spectator 15 Apr. 409/1 Canon Hunt, as the Missionary Rector, will anoint your Eminence.

1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 774/2 In England there is a certain number of missions in each diocese, important either on account of their having been long established or because of the size of the congregation, the priests in charge of which are styled ‘Missionary Rectors’.

1995 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bulletin (Nexis) 4 Aug. 1 b A four-year stint as a missionary rector in Bonda, Zimbabwe.

missionary zeal n. the type of enthusiasm or fervour characteristic of a missionary; earnest or proselytizing support for a cause.

ΚΠ

1822 C. M. Sedgwick New-Eng. Tale xiii. 205 The sins that have stirred up such a missionary zeal in that body of quakerism; will weigh very light in the scales of love.

1899 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 13 160 Broad views of trade solidarity, a propagandist enthusiasm, and a missionary zeal for the uniform minimum.

1917 E. Wharton Summer i. 9 Mr. Miles, the new Episcopal clergyman..had proposed, in a fit of missionary zeal, to take the young people down to Nettleton to hear an illustrated lecture on the Holy Land.

1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 4 Jan. 22/4 The senior team..may be young workaholics who display almost missionary zeal in their search for better management strategies and pragmatic solutions to their problems.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	missionary
释义	missionaryn.adj. Brit. /ˈmɪʃn̩əri/, /ˈmɪʃn̩ri/, U.S. /ˈmɪʃəˌnɛri/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin missionarius. Etymology: < post-classical Latin missionarius (c1620 or earlier) < classical Latin missiōn- , missiō mission n. + -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare French missionnaire (1624 as noun, 1685 as adjective), Italian missionario (1622 or earlier as noun, 20th cent. as adjective), Spanish misionero (mid 17th cent. as noun and adjective; also †misionario ), Portuguese missionário (mid 17th cent. as noun). Compare slightly later missionaire n., missioner n. A. n. 1. a. A person sent on or engaged in a religious mission abroad. Also: a person engaged in evangelical or humanitarian work at home. Frequently with distinguishing word, as foreign missionary (see also city missionary n. at city n. Compounds 2, home missionary n. at home n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts missionary1625 missioner1654 gospeller1673 umfundisi1825 God-man1842 moruti1866 missionizer1901 missionist1909 mish1939 1625 E. Chaloner Credo Ecclesiam Sanctam Catholicam i. vii. 68 Veronus, hath..procured letters Patents for the establishing of a French Congregation of Missionaries, as hee termes them. 1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 296 Should the Jesuits of Italy..send thither their Missionaries. 1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 4 The King sent through all his Kingdom Missionaries to instruct the Protestants..in the Roman Religion. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 375 The Jesuite Missionaries of Paraguay. 1791 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 316 Why are we not all devoted to God; breathing the whole spirit of Missionaries? 1824 Cape Chron. in S. Afr. Jrnl. 1 76 Mr Moffat..Missionary of the Kuruman..has lately arrived in Cape Town..accompanied by five women and a boy of the marauding nation called ‘Mantatees’. 1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 1 232 I had occasion to accompany a home missionary into a few of the dens of London. 1852 A. Essex in A. Rabone Rec. of Pioneer Family (1966) 19 The pseudo-philanthropists and the self-righteous missionaries..have no sympathy to spare for the plundered, ruined, bereaved Colonists. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §3. 23 The missionaries of the new faith appeared fearlessly among the Mercians. 1891 M. Williams Later Leaves 390 The great assistance magistrates receive from the thirteen missionaries attached to the different Courts. 1891 M. Williams Later Leaves 397 My Court missionary saw the two off by train. 1916 C. A. Eastman From Deep Woods to Civilization 132 White men with Indian wives and missionaries, may be ordered off the reservation as ‘disturbers of the peace’. 1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond ii. 22 The Seventh Day Adventists were the busiest missionaries in Turkey and the Levant. 1979 G. MacEwan Pat Burns, Cattle King (1981) vi. 45 The good people of that city took him for a foreign missionary home on furlough and treated him with appropriate respect. 1991 Bull. Centre Sci. Devel., Pretoria Mar. 3 The missionaries failed to transform the nomadic Khoikhoi into sedentary agricultural and trading communities. b. In extended use. ΚΠ 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 92 That Politick Engine who..was employed by some of Oxford as a Missionary amongst the Nonconformists of the adjacent Counties. 1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Mar. (1932) (modernized text) III. 892 I would not, at twenty years, be a preaching missionary of abstemiousness and sobriety. a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 181 The fanatic missionaries of sedition have scattered the seeds of discontent in our cities. 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) ii. 66 The wise man..when..his duties..call him from his house, or into foreign lands,..shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue. 1890 R. Buchanan Coming Terror (1891) 83 My father was one of Robert Owen's missionaries. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xvi. 291 We're frankly missionaries, not an art for art concern. 1975 Listener 17 July 94/3 Not that Mr Evans is a preacher—some ecological guru, or the latest missionary for F. R. Leavis's organic community. 1992 Daily Tel. (BNC) 15 Apr. 43 (heading) Diesel Cars: Meet the diesel missionary from Dagenham. †2. = Lazarist n., Vincentian n.¹ Cf. mission n. 3b. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > other religions > Lazarist > [noun] Congregation of the Priests of the Mission1656 missionary1656 Lazarite1728 Lazarist1747 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Missionaries,..Also, a particular institute in France, called the Fathers of the Mission; who go by pairs,..preach and catechize, and perform other pastoral Offices. †3. An agent or emissary; esp. a person sent on a political mission. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > person sent on a mission emissary1631 missioner1654 missionaire1687 missionary1693 envoy1696 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy sand1038 sandesman1123 sanderbodec1200 erendes-manc1275 sand-manc1275 legatec1350 embassadora1398 ambassador1417 bassatourc1450 orator1474 messenger1535 vakeel1622 public minister1624 minister1647 envoy1666 wakeel1803 missionary1821 elchee1824 ambassador-at-large1868 1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 101 The Agents of the party would employ their little Missionaries to gather Stories from all corners of the Country. 1777 E. Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol 73 That this ill-natured doctrine should be preached by the missionaries of a court I do not wonder. 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 97 The diplomatic missionaries of Europe at Paris. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 64 Mr. Triptolemus Yellowley, who was the chosen missionary of the Chamberlain of Orkney and Zetland. †4. A missionary body or establishment. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts > collectively mission1622 missionary1719 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 273 Christianity..was once planted here by a Dutch Missionary of Protestants. 1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 172 There were then..612 jesuits colleges, 340 residuaries, 59 noviciates, 200 missionaries, and 24 professors houses of that society. †5. New Zealand. A Christian, esp. a Maori convert to Protestantism. Cf. mihanere n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun] > one who has undergone proselytec1384 converse1388 convert1561 convertitec1592 convertist1611 missionary1834 mihanere1840 vert1864 proselytess1879 1834 E. Markham N.Z. Recoll. (1963) 32 They are all Missionaries as they call the Christians. 1840 N.Z. Jrnl. 5 Dec. 292/2 The natives..call themselves missionaries, having embraced Christianity. 1841 N.Z. Jrnl. 10 Apr. 87/2 I asked whether it was true, that he had given up all fighting intrigues, and become a missionary. 1854 R. E. Malone Three Years' Cruise Australasian Colonies iii. 22 Mihaneri (missionaries—the universal name, in New Zealand, for Protestant Christians). 6. New Zealand. The sweet briar, Rosa eglanteria, introduced by missionaries and now an invasive weed. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [noun] brierc1000 eglaterea1400 eglantinec1400 hound's thornc1420 dogberry1527 dog-briar1530 sweet-briar1538 brier-bush1562 dog bramble1567 canker1582 dog rose1597 canker rose1606 dog-thorn1694 cynorrhodon1706 bramble-rose1713 Scotch rose1731 white dog rose1770 brier-rose1810 bull-brier1860 missionary1881 burnet-rose1884 1881 F. Larkworthy N.Z. Revisited 30 The sweetbriar, which here [i.e. at Tarawera] goes by the name of the ‘Missionary’, blocking the roads and vacant spaces. 1898 W. P. Reeves Long White Cloud i. 17 The sweetbriar..covers whole hillsides, to the ruin of pasture. Introduced, innocently enough, by the missionaries, it goes by their name in some districts.] 1912 B. E. Baughan Brown Bread from Colonial Oven iii. 48 ‘Missionary’, in the North Island is frequently an alternative spelling for ‘sweet~brier’, which is a pest. 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxvii. 274 Sweet-briar..‘Missionary’ as it is still called, has been spread abroad by the horse. B. adj. 1. Relating to or connected with a religious mission; sent on or engaged in a mission; proper to or characteristic of a person sent on or engaged in a mission; occupied in or characterized by the work of a mission. Also in extended use.Some of the examples given may illustrate attributive use of the noun: cf. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [adjective] missionary1644 missional1907 1644 in H. Foley Rec. Eng. Province Soc. Jesus (1878) III. 89 They seemed..firmly united in the several graces of priestly and apostolical missionary vocation. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning 20 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. These [records] are agreed, by the Missionary Jesuits, to extend so far above Four Thousand Years. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 265 The missionary Priests usually went thither [sc. to Macao], in Order to their going forward to China. 1767 B. Franklin in London Chron. 9 Apr. Even the Missionary Clergy..cannot forbear acquainting the Bishops..that they are indeed very diligent in their respective missions. 1813–15 (title) Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. ix. 166 One of those little accidents which chequer missionary life in Spain. 1854 in C. C. Richards Village Life Amer. (1912) 47 If we wanted to take shares in the missionary ship, Morning Star, we could buy them at 10 cents apiece. 1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xviii. 150 Mrs. Shapcote sent out invitations to a missionary tea in honour of him [sc. a missionary]. 1875 F. M. Müller Chips from German Workshop IV. 265 The three missionary religions, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and Christianity. 1933 P. A. Eaddy Hull Down v. 108 On some missionary hooker where they'll want to dish up two prayer meetings in the one week to all hands. 1965 Listener 1 July 15/1 Dante is more than a poet and his Comedy more than a poem. His prime purpose in writing is missionary and prophetic. 1988 Computer Graphics World Feb. 26/1 This is still a vendor-driven market that will require missionary selling and market education. 1990 Newsweek 19 Feb. 24 Mandela grew up at a time when well-born South African blacks were given rigorous, moralistic, missionary educations. †2. Sent out or forth. Obsolete (archaic and poetic in later use). ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > [adjective] > sent on a mission missivea1450 emissary1685 missionary1691 missioned1796 1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 330 The Missionary Angels that have the Charge and Office of Guardians here upon Earth. 1699 J. Pomfret Love Triumphant in Poems (1724) 28 Cupid..Who Troops of missionary Loves commands. 1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vi. 86 The night..calling By missionary winds and twilight birds. Compounds Missionary Baptist n. U.S. a Baptist who engages in missionary work. ΚΠ 1849 E. Chamberlain Indiana Gazetteer (ed. 3) 72 A large majority of this denomination are Missionary Baptists, and the minority is rapidly diminishing. 1891 H. F. O'Beirne Leaders Indian Territory 184/2 He is a missionary Baptist and a good christian. 1949 Sat. Evening Post 22 Oct. 122/4 He entered the Missionary Baptist ministry as a young man, and for ten years filled pastorates in the Carolinas. 1978 C. Trillin Sound of Eating in Alice, let's Eat 164 The ladies from the Second Mount Triumph Missionary Baptist Church have a booth again selling the fried chicken that apparently caused Jaffe to seek salvation last year. missionary barrel n. U.S. a barrel or box of clothing and other goods supplied to a remote missionary by his or her church. ΚΠ 1866 Debates & Proc. Nat. Council Congregational Churches (Amer. Congregational Assoc.) 424 What we cannot give away in our own parish,..we put into the Home Missionary barrels, and send them to the home missionaries to give away.] 1885 Amer. Missionary May 150 Letter..written by one of the Indian girls..in reply to a little girl who sent a bonnet in a missionary barrel. 1952 J. H. Giles 40 Acres & No Mule 183 The next time you pack a missionary barrel remember that I wear a size 14 dress, a 6-½ shoe, and I am badly in need of a lightweight, rainproof coat! 1992 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) 615/2 Part of that help came in the form of the missionary barrel, which was a box of clothing for his family, sent by an eastern congregation that had ‘adopted’ him. missionary bishop n. a bishop who engages in missionary work, without responsibility for a particular see. ΚΠ 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 258 He was ordained in France a missionary bishop, without any fixed see, in 628. 1866 J. C. Patteson Let. 1 Jan. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) II. x. 160 I value much these memorials of the first Missionary Bishop of the Church of England. 1971 J. Manton Sister Dora xvi. 272 Selwyn of Lichfield..had been the first missionary bishop in Melanesia. missionary box n. a box for the reception of contributions to the funds of a missionary society. ΚΠ 1822 Missionary Herald (Boston) Jan. 22 Donations... A miss. box kept in the room of Mr. John Blatchford of the Theo. Sem.] 1830 ‘C. C. Socio’ in Post-Chaise Compan. 56 Missionary box. 1854 C. M. Yonge Castle Builders v. 69 The chimney-piece ornamented with missionary boxes and cards for shilling and penny subscriptions. 1942 A. P. Jephcott Girls growing Up iii. 58 We redeemed ourselves..by working hard for a missionary box. 1981 D. Davie Coll. Poems (1990) 312 The Mission Fields ripe for the scything Gospel cost him a weekly penny. The missionary box! missionary position n. [see quots. 1929¹] a position for sexual intercourse in which a woman lies underneath a man, facing him. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > position in intercourse > specific knee-chest position1935 missionary position1948 cowgirl1993 reverse cowgirl1993 1929 B. Malinowski Sexual Life of Savages x. 284 The natives [of the Trobriand Islands] despise the European position and consider it unpractical and improper. 1929 B. Malinowski Sexual Life of Savages xiii. 403 Tokolibeloa, once a famous Don Juan,..insisted that this was misinari si bubunela, ‘missionary fashion’, one of the novel immoralities introduced by Christianity.] 1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male x. 373 Malinowski..notes that caricatures of the English-American position are performed around the communal campfires, to the great amusement of the natives [sc. the Trobrianders of the south-western Pacific] who refer to the position as the ‘missionary position’. 1969 Daily Tel. 10 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 7 In six States [in the U.S.] a woman may still be awarded a divorce if her husband makes love to her in any other than the missionary position. 1987 Atlantic Feb. 52/1 I had been a straight missionary-position type until I met John. missionary rector n. Roman Catholic Church (now historical) the priest in charge of a Roman Catholic mission in England. ΚΠ 1865 Spectator 15 Apr. 409/1 Canon Hunt, as the Missionary Rector, will anoint your Eminence. 1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 774/2 In England there is a certain number of missions in each diocese, important either on account of their having been long established or because of the size of the congregation, the priests in charge of which are styled ‘Missionary Rectors’. 1995 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bulletin (Nexis) 4 Aug. 1 b A four-year stint as a missionary rector in Bonda, Zimbabwe. missionary zeal n. the type of enthusiasm or fervour characteristic of a missionary; earnest or proselytizing support for a cause. ΚΠ 1822 C. M. Sedgwick New-Eng. Tale xiii. 205 The sins that have stirred up such a missionary zeal in that body of quakerism; will weigh very light in the scales of love. 1899 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 13 160 Broad views of trade solidarity, a propagandist enthusiasm, and a missionary zeal for the uniform minimum. 1917 E. Wharton Summer i. 9 Mr. Miles, the new Episcopal clergyman..had proposed, in a fit of missionary zeal, to take the young people down to Nettleton to hear an illustrated lecture on the Holy Land. 1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 4 Jan. 22/4 The senior team..may be young workaholics who display almost missionary zeal in their search for better management strategies and pragmatic solutions to their problems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). missionaryv. Brit. /ˈmɪʃn̩əri/, /ˈmɪʃn̩ri/, U.S. /ˈmɪʃəˌnɛri/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: missionary n. Etymology: < missionary n. Compare earlier missionarying n. rare. †1. transitive. To preach to (a person), as or in the manner of a missionary. Usually in passive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > conduct mission [verb (transitive)] > act as missionary missionaryc1876 c1876 J. Albery Man in Possession i, in Dramatic Wks. (1939) II. 105 I know I was [dreadfully wicked], but I'm not now, Teddy. I've been missionaried, and preached to. 1893 K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver's Problem (1894) vii. 87 Boys hate to be missionaried, and I'm sure I don't blame them. 2. intransitive. To act as a missionary, do missionary work. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > conduct mission [verb (intransitive)] > act as missionary missionary1884 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xix. 162 Preachin's my line, too; and workin' camp-meetin's; and missionaryin' around. 1983 P. Fussell Class v. 122 The ‘old’ Orient, the archaic one Americans used to colonize, missionary to, educate, patronize, and rip off. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1625v.c1876
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