| 单词 | mother colony |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother colony a. With sense ‘that is the source or origin of others, or (occasionally) that fulfils a protective or nurturing role’, as mother colony, mother-lodge, mother vein, etc. See also motherland n., mother ship n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] mother?c1225 originalc1350 radicala1398 primitive?a1425 fundamentalc1449 primordial?a1450 primea1500 primary1565 nativea1592 fundamentive1593 primordiate1599 primara1603 remote1605 originousa1637 originary1638 parental1647 principiate1654 fontal1656 underivative1656 underived1656 fountainous1662 first hand1699 matricular1793 first-handed1855 protomorphic1887 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 161 Ȝe habbeð an dale iherd..of þeo þe me cleopeð seoue moder sunnen. 1325 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 547 Incipiendo ad inferiorem finem de la Modirlech qui vocatur Gramos et sic ambulando [etc.]. 1479 in J. Raine Priory of Hexham (1865) II. 24 (MED) Molendinum..cum stagno et le modir-dame. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 53 Those principall & mother elements of the world, wherof all things in this lower world are made. 1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea in Wks. (1620) I. 484 Because ignorance is a mother sin, therefore [etc.]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Veine saphene, the mother veine. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxii. 302 Till they reacht, where those two mother springs, Of deepe Scamander, pour'd abroad, their siluer murmurings. 1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 118 Love..is a general Mother Vertue, and the principle of a more particular and special Obedience. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 403 The layers..must be allowed two years to take root, before they are cut off from the mother-tree. 1784 M. Weighton Drainage Award 9 The mother drain, or navigable canal, now made. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 32 Lifts proud Anteus from his mother-plains. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude 9 O dear Britain! O my mother Isle! 1824 T. De Quincey Historico-crit. Inq. Rosicrucians & Free-masons in London Mag. Jan. 7 These orders have degrees—many or few according to the constitution of the several mother-lodges. 1854 A. P. Stanley Hist. Memorials Canterbury (1857) i. 26 The Cathedral of Canterbury [is] the mother cathedral of England. 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 342 On the supposition that it is the mother-vein of the country from which the ores of the Silver Flat..are derived. 1897 J. J. Knight Brisbane 25 The mother colony had to be fought. 1907 Practitioner Aug. 320 These granules consist of a zymogen, or mother-ferment, which is called trypsinogen. 1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali iv. 75 When the [rice] field is prepared, the mother-seed, which has been picked from the largest and most beautiful ears, is soaked for two days and two nights, then spread on a mat and sprinkled with water until the germ breaks through. 1964 P. F. Anson Bishops at Large ix. 421 St Dunstan's Abbey was advertised as ‘the Mother-Community’. 1973 Country Life 31 May 1544/2 While St. Kitts is now completely independent in internal matters, its people..recall with pride the island's role as the ‘Mother Colony’ for the British Empire in the Caribbean. < as lemmas |
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