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单词 oxfordian
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Oxfordiann.adj.

Brit. /ɒksˈfɔːdɪən/, U.S. /ɑksˈfɔrdiən/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Oxford , -ian suffix.
Etymology: < the name of Oxford (see Oxford n.) + -ian suffix. Compare Oxonian n., Oxonian adj.In sense B. 2 after French oxfordien (J. Thurmann 1830, in Mém. de la Soc. d'Hist. nat. de Strasbourg I. 22). In sense B. 3 with allusion to the title of Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford (1550–1604).
A. n.
1. gen. A person living in or associated with the city or University of Oxford; = Oxonian n. 1.
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society > education > member of university > [noun] > (former) specific university or college
mountainer?a1425
Cantabrigianc1540
Oxonianc1540
Sorbonist1560
Oxford man1590
Oxfordian1645
Johnian1655
hog1690
Harvardian1702
squil1721
Cantab1751
king's man1751
Wadhamite1760
Princetonian1807
Brunonian1829
merchant tailor1829
Trinitarian1852
houseman1868
polytechnician1871
Mertonian1883
Cheltonian1887
Girtonian1887
Girtonite1894
Newnhamite1896
woman1896
normalien1904
Somervillian1904
Orangeman1908
Tab1914
Ivy Leaguer1943
Oxbridgean1959
plate-glasser1968
Yalie1969
1645 King Charles I Let. 9 June in J. Evelyn Diary & Corr. (1852) IV. 149 If we peripatetiques get no more mischances then you Oxfordians ar lyke to haue this somer.
1648 Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer No. 278. 1091 A Letter from Cambridge informeth thus:..I betook my self to dissemble a little as if I had been an Oxfordian.
1739 ‘C. Dodd’ Church Hist. Eng. II. 91/2 Some learned men of his acquaintance at Doway, who formerly had been Oxfordians.
1882 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Oct. 678 The Protestant Oxfordians would have smiled at Campian's arguments.
1925 Amer. Hist. Rev. 30 338 No wonder that the Oxfordians are so fond of their alma mater and that in his last will and testament Haverfield connected Oxford forever with his own personal scientific endeavors and achievements.
1990 Sunday Tel. 14 Jan. 19/1 In conferring an honour on Professor Galbraith,..many Oxfordians do not feel that the University is exactly catching the tide of history.
1994 Oxfiend 28 Apr. 4/2 100 Oxfordians are choked to death by car exhaust every year.
2. Geology. The Oxfordian stage or period (see sense B. 2).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > secondary or Mesozoic > Jurassic > Jurassic spec.
Oxfordian1849
Callovian1856
Pliensbachian1903
1849 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 5 182 The overlying stage..is therefore a good representative of the Oxfordian of the Alps.
1885 R. Etheridge Stratigr. Geol. & Palæontol. 441 The Middle Jurassic rocks comprise two complete and distinct groups—1. The Oxfordian; 2. The Corallian. 1. Oxfordian—divisible into two sections, a and b, the Kellaways Rock and the Oxford Clay.
1946 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 57 8 Formerly, (1933) the present author maintained..that the whole of the Oxford Clay of Oxford should be included in the Oxfordian; however, he has come to the conclusion that this would be wrong.
1995 Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 116 240/2 In areas of carbonate facies the Early Oxfordian was a time of very condensed sedimentation.
3. A proponent or supporter of the Oxfordian theory (see sense B. 3).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > literary origin of text > specific authorship theory > one who holds
Unitarian1850
chorizontes1868
chorizontist1873
Baconian1874
Shakespearean1874
separatist1903
Stratfordian1908
Shakespearite1909
Oxfordian1930
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright > believer in Shakespeare's authorship > not
Baconian1874
Oxfordian1930
1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Sept. 712/2 Oxfordians seem to start from the basic assumption that the association of the work of Shakespeare with the Stratford player needs explanation.
1970 S. Schoenbaum Shakespeare's Lives vi. ix. 610 The contempt felt by reputable scholars for the Oxfordians.
1999 Time 15 Feb. 75/1 A critical weakness of the Oxfordians is that De Vere died in 1604, before several of Shakespeare's masterpieces were published or performed.
B. adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the University or city of Oxford or its inhabitants; = Oxonian adj. rare before late 19th cent.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Britain > Oxford
Oxonian1606
Oxfordian1689
1689 R. Wild Benefice iv. 40 If you please, with your perspicuous Luminaries to contemplate and perscrutate these Testifications, you shall be animadverted of my Deportment in the Oxfordian Society, in my modification for Literature.
1886 Bot. Gaz. 11 29 The Oxfordian professor [sc. Dillenius] held aloof from the Linnæan system.
1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 231 The second volume of this work, composed by an Oxfordian scholar, was published last year.
1936 R. Riskin Lost Horizon 54 (stage direct.) Chang turns his head slowly and speaks in perfect Oxfordian English.
1975 ‘R. Player’ Let's talk of Graves ii. 37 The..author of ‘Lead Kindly Light’..was still so Oxfordian, so damned Anglican.
2002 Independent (Nexis) 6 July 36 The arcane Oxfordian art of stammering self-deprecation.
2. Geology. Of, relating to, or designating a division of the Upper Jurassic strata lying below the Kimmeridgian and above the Callovian (in continental Europe restricted to the lower part of this division), or the period of time during which its rocks were deposited.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [adjective] > secondary or Mesozoic > Jurassic > specific
Purbeck stone1410
Oxfordian1845
Portlandian1845
Callovian1851
Kimmeridgian1851
Bathonian1858
Sinemurian1863
Tithonian1869
Toarcian1885
Kellovian1888
Aalenian1896
Pliensbachian1952
1845 N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 469 The organic contents of the Lias, those of the Oolitic group properly so called, those of the Oxfordian group, and those of the Portlandian group, as they occur in Switzerland, are as different from each other as the fossils of the Lias from those of the Keuper.
1863 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 153 33 The first evidence of a Bird in strata of the Oxfordian or Corallian stage of the Oolitic series was afforded by the impression of a single feather.
1900 Geogr. Jrnl. 15 408 These were probably the Cretacean beds overlying the Jurassic strata, which immediately afterwards we came upon in the Oxfordian black shales.
1975 A. Hallam Jurassic Environments ii. 16 The problem of correlation becomes much more serious from Upper Oxfordian times onwards.
1998 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 25 340/1 The river runs through Oxfordian limestone.
3. Of or relating to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550–1604); spec. designating, relating to, or advocating the theory that he was the author of works attributed to Shakespeare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [adjective] > relating to or holding specific authorship theory
Unitarian1842
Baconian1874
chorizontic1875
chorizontal1887
Stratfordian1908
Oxfordian1930
1930 P. Allen Case for Edward de Vere 20 These poems of Chapman..are, in my judgment, enough..to prove the Oxfordian authorship of ‘Shakespeare’.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 June 462/4 For the ordinary reader, and especially for the reader unfamiliar with the Oxfordian theory, Mr. Allen's book is not wholly satisfactory.
1970 S. Schoenbaum Shakespeare's Lives vi. ix. 609 Freud read the Looney book. It converted him to the Oxfordian faith.
1991 Atlantic Oct. 79/2 A reiteration of that unshakeable Oxfordian fallacy that the rights of authors were recognized in Elizabethan-Stuart England.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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