单词 | muscovite |
释义 | Muscoviten.1adj. A. n.1 A native or inhabitant of Moscow or of the former principality of Muscovy. More generally: a Russian (now archaic). ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [noun] Muscovite1535 Russ1537 Russian1538 Muscovian1577 Muscoviter1650 White Russian1659 Great Russian1783 bear1804 Rooshian1838 Soviet1920 Ivan1925 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [noun] > Moscow Muscovite1535 1535 J. Wallop Let. 6 Sept. in MS. Cotton Calig. EII. f. 217 Th[e] musscavittes hath geven battaile to the King of pow[lles]. 1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes f. 47 The Moscouites [Ger. Der Moscobiter] and whyte Russes fayth. Moscouites is a nacion in Asia whose lande is called Moscouia. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 256v They were cauled Moscouites of the chiefe citie of al the prouince named Moscouia or Mosca. 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiiij The wide Empire of the Moschouite. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 122 Appariled thus, like Muscouites, of Russians. View more context for this quotation 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 303 Disguysd like Muscouites in shapeless geare. View more context for this quotation 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1639) 47 Of the Greeke Communion are the Muscovites, the Russes in Poland [etc.]. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 87 The spawn of Fish, especially that of Sturgeon, they order thus... The Muscovites call it Ikary, and the Italians Cavaiar. 1700 M. Prior Carmen Sæculare 11 The young Moscovite, the mighty Head Whose Sovereign Terror Forty Nations dread. 1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lxv. 523 The Moscovites..were as jealous as any people in the south. 1862 G. Meredith Grandfather Bridgeman in Mod. Love xiv. 11 The Muscovite stole thro' the mist-wreaths. 1877 D. M. Wallace Russia xxv. 386 No wonder the Muscovites were scandalized by his conduct. 1905 Daily Chron. 11 Mar. 4/4 These may have been part and parcel of the plans of the Japanese commanders, deliberately devised to throw dust in the eyes of the Muscovite. 1941 World-Telegram (N.Y.) 8 Jan. 23/2 We had trouble with the Muscovites before and..made them promise..to leave off revolutioneering in our midst. 1989 Holiday Which? Mar. 79/1 Muscovites put their 5 kopeks in the gates,..and board the trains that arrive every minute or two. B. adj. Of or relating to Moscow or Muscovy, or their inhabitants; (gen.) Russian. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [adjective] > Muscovy Muscovite1577 Muscovian1579 Muscovitish1622 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [adjective] Russa1525 Muscovite1577 Russian1583 Russie1589 Muscovitish1622 Russic1670 Great Russian1799 Black Russian1827 Russki1835 Rooshian1845 Soviet1920 Mordvian1953 1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 62 As, in the Sclauonian, or Moschouite, the Arabik,..the Chiny Language. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 105 Certaine Englishmen sayling by the Moscouite sea,..haue pierced euen to Cathaia. 1676 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia (new ed.) 80 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) The Moscovite Language. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 364 A faithful Muscovite Servant, or rather a Siberian Servant. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 574/1 The Muscovite priests use exorcisms at the administration of baptism. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 27 That Christian hound, the Muscovite ambassador. 1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 76 134 German bureaucratists..and Muscovite diplomatists. 1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 332/2 The belfry building is a curious mixture of styles..and the whole is thoroughly Muscovite. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 552/1 For want of funds, Alexander was unable to assist the Grand Master of the Order of the Sword against Muscovite aggression. 1987 C. Phillips European Tribe xiii. 115 For ordinary Muscovite workers the most treasured and least aimless jobs are those in hotels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). muscoviten.2 Geology. A pale, translucent, potassium-containing mineral of the mica group, KAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2, occurring in many rocks. Also called white mica. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass-like materials specular stone1577 murra1598 talc1601 isinglass1750 mica1778 Muscovy glass1794 muscovite1850 Vitreosil1909 vitreous silica1925 windolite1927 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > phyllosilicate > [noun] > mica > muscovite Muscovy glass1573 talc1601 mirror-stone1668 Muscovy talc1677 potash mica1844 muscovite1850 phengite1854 1850 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 3) v. v. 356 Muscovite, D[ana]. 1856 W. P. Blake Rep. Geol. Route near 35th Parallel (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific IV) x. 106 They have the usual form of Muscovite micas, the regular rhombic prism. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. §56. 56 Muscovite, or common mica, is a potash-mica. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 413/1 Muscovite (Muscovy-Glass)... Crystals over a yard in diameter in China, where it is used for windows. 1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) iii. 52 Fine-grained light-colored granite in dikes is called aplite and commonly has more muscovite than average. 1986 D. Carey Dreadnought iv. 53 Merete joined me between two spires of glittering muscovite. 1991 New Yorker 14 Oct. 86/2 Two types of mica—colorless muscovite and black biotite—sprinkle the stone with a salt-and-pepper glitter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1adj.1535n.21850 |
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