单词 | plantator |
释义 | plantatorn. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > cause of transformation forschuppild?c1225 converter1533 transformer1601 plantator1616 transformator1617 transmogrifier1676 new broom1799 transformist1799 denaturalizer1832 catalyser1904 wind (also winds) of change1905 catalyst1943 touchpaper1968 1616 T. Granger Syntagma Grammaticum sig. B6v That that seed of learning, &c. that he sowes..having once taken rooting may be served of the childes nature..[the master must preserve it] from outward contagion of vaine, vitious, & idle persons... For such persons are plantatores, and rigatores also, whose poisons..do surely take effect. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 438 Can you draw from them [i.e. the French]..a greater draught, then they draw from the Italian, for first they be Imitators; next, Mutators; thirdly, Temptators; and lastly, your Plantators, in all the varieties of vanity. 2. A settler, a colonist. Cf. planter n. 2a. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] peopler1566 planter1587 plantator1632 colonist1658 populator1664 storer1690 settler1696 white settler1754 plantationite1756 colonizer1766 colonizationist1823 colon1860 homesteader1870 plantationer1888 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 411 A great discouragment for our collonizd plantators there. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 123 This year the protestants and English plantators in Ireland, began to grow into some discontent. a1677 R. Bellings in J. T. Gilbert Hist. Irish Confederation (1882) I. 17 They further resented the incapacity layd upon them of houlding by lease or purchasing from the Plantatoure any part of those lands. 1757 W. Harris Fiction Unmasked 59 By a Survey made of it in the Year 1620 it appears, that there were but 33 Plantators or Undertakers, to whom Lands were set out, and that they had amongst them only 17904 Acres. 1940 Social Forces 19 245/2 In the early days of American colonization, however, the term, along with ‘plantationer’, ‘plantationite’, and ‘plantator’, was more likely to designate one who was planted or settled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1616 |
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