单词 | patroon |
释义 | patroonn. 1. A person who gives financial or other support to a person, cause, activity, etc. Cf. patron n. 4b. U.S. in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > patronage > [noun] > patron avowe1297 avowrya1387 setter-forth1451 fautora1464 patron1466 presidenta1522 benefactor1532 patronizer1596 favourer1625 patroona1641 good fairy1716 fairy godfather1847 avoué1851 tall relative1976 a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) II. i. 35 Our noble patroon, wth his lovely Lady. 1664 J. Wilson Cheats iv. i. 46 And do you now forget your Patroon, sirrah? Do you forget your Patroon? 1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 28 I could never have imagin'd that you could have been Patroon of so foul a cause. 1997 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 23 Nov. d1 You paid 50 bucks if you came alone and 95 bucks if you brought somebody. That made you a ‘patron’. If you wanted to be a ‘patroon’—a distinction of mysterious value—you had to cough up 200 bucks. 2002 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 6 Dec. (Classified section) 7 c Judge..maintained a lifelong connection with the University as a Patroon. 2. A master (esp. of a slave). Cf. patron n. 6. Now historical. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > master of slaves patrona1665 patroon1671 Negro-holder1780 slave-master1822 slave-master1822 old master1845 1671 J. Baltharpe Straights Voy. 20 In Garden of his Pateroone He was a working about noon. 1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 57 He was forced to travel with his Pateroon Four or five miles over land to Damaniscottee. 1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans i. 8 In this Town I lived many Years with my second Patroon. 1990 A. Sinclair Need to Give iv. 56 In New York,..patroon designated the owner of Indian or African slaves as well as the proprietor of an estate. 3. The captain, master, or officer in charge of a ship, barge, or boat; the coxswain of a longboat. Cf. patron n. 5a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master skipper1390 master shipmana1393 master mariner?a1400 shipmanc1405 shipmasterc1440 commanderc1450 patron1490 shipper1496 ship-governor1526 reis1585 nakhoda?1606 sea-captain1612 malem1615 manjee1683 captain1705 patroon1719 old man1821 owner1903 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 23 My Patroon came on board alone, and told me his Guests had put off going. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 111 Mr. C—l the Patroon prevail'd on 'em to return to Captain C—p. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. I Maître de chaloupe, the coxswain, or patroon of the long-boat. 1774 S. Hearne Jrnl. 11 Oct. (1934) 122 The Pataroon or Steersman of each Cannoe has 50 £ Pr annom, the foresman £40. 1808 C. Schultz Travels II. 106 We were..disappointed in our expectation of obtaining a pilot, or pattroon, as they are called. 1877 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 9 130 We employed a patroon and six bogas to pole us up to Honda. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxii. 261 Both our master and the patroon of the boat scrupled at the risk. 1960 William & Mary Q. 17 184 For some years he was patroon of a trading boat carrying deerskins from Augusta to Charleston. 1981 William & Mary Q. 38 431 Tinco and Sam were ‘employed in the three-masted boat Beaufort Packet’, Tinco as the patroon, the person in charge. 4. U.S. A possessor of a landed estate and certain manorial privileges, granted under the former Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey, to members of the (Dutch) West India Company. Now historical.The New Netherlands Co. issued a charter in 1629 providing that whoever brought 50 permanent settlers should be invested with an estate of 16 miles frontage on the Hudson, extending back indefinitely. The patroons held manorial courts. Their privileges were finally abolished in about 1850. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > possessor of land from Dutch West India Company patroon1744 1744 A. Hamilton Itinerarium 29 Nov. (1907) 74 Jeremiah Ranslaer..is dignified here with the title of Patroon. 1776 C. Carroll Jrnl. (1845) 42 Vast tracts of land on each side of Hudson's river are held by the proprietaries, or, as they are here styled, the Patrones of the manors. 1797 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 186 What with the English influence..and the Patroon influence..little is to be hoped. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. xiii. 194 Once his Family could chase their deer over tracts of country wider than that which belongs to the Albany Patteroon. 1870 A. M. Burrill New Law Dict. Manor, in American Law..is a tract held of a proprietor by a fee-farm rent in money or in kind, and descending to oldest son, who in New York is called a patroon. 1883 J. Fiske in Harper's Mag. May 921/1 The patroons brought many colonists with them. 1904 Baltimore Amer. 5 Oct. 8 Now that New Yorkers can ride a mile a minute in their nice new sewer, they had better get rid of their horsecar relics of the old patroon days. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Mar. 139/2 The Roosevelts were..were well off but not rich, members of a good Dutch family but not patroons. 2002 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 8 Dec. a1 Col. Walter S. Church used the home in the 1850s to collect feudal land rents on behalf of Dutch patroons. DerivativesΚΠ 1864 T. Winthrop Edwin Brothertoft (ed. 7) 147 I can see how, with these great estates, a Patrooness may be willing to save herself a confiscation. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Patroon Patrooness, a woman with the rights or privileges of a patroon; a female patroon. ΚΠ 1858 N.Y. Tribune 30 Jan. 5/3 Another Blow at Patroonry.—The land-holders of Rensselaer county..had a meeting at West Sandlake on the 27th. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1641 |
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