单词 | outpart |
释义 | outpartn. An outer, outlying, or exterior part or place. In later use chiefly in plural: the parts of a town lying outside its walls or municipal boundaries; the outskirts.In quot. ?a1600 of outpart: from (the) outside. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [noun] > the outside or exterior > outer or exterior part(s) outwardOE outpart1488 utter-side1577 outlets1583 outside1598 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > suburb > collectively suburbc1350 suburbans?c1400 suburblec1540 outshifts1592 skirts1616 environsc1660 outpart1722 outlets1762 suburbia1870 'burb1977 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 1063 On a out part the Scottis set in that tyd. ?a1600 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Cambr.) l. 520 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 243 Thys hors..so subtelly to be wrought That they of out-part appere nought Ne maide oppyne to mannys sight. ?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads iv. 65 The Fellffs, or out-parts of a wheele, that compasse in the whole. a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) ii. iii. 50 Ffollowe thy fflot nose & smell them there, in th'out part off this Cloyster. 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. at Inhoc Any corner or out part of a common field plough'd up and sow'd..within that year wherein the rest of the same field lay fallow. 1698 Protestant Mercury 27–9 July No. 286. 2/1 A constable in the Out-parts..out on the Watch. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 56 Those Parishes, and Places as were called the Hamlets, and Out-parts. 1755 Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 793 In some parishes in London there die more..and in others in the out-parts of the town there die fewer. 1780 Ann. Reg. 201 The imposition being committed in the outparts. 1848 Southern Literary Messenger 14 442/1 I can sell the neck, and other out-parts of the property. 1903 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 12 59 This massacre began in the outparts of the country round about. 1906 Daily Chron. 30 May 3/3 The evidence of an apparently Semitic influence on the religion of Egypt in this out-part of her empire. 1979 Hist. Jrnl. 22 103 The parishes represented in the two petitions were in the western part of the City and the adjacent outparts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1488 |
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