propagatorn.

Brit.

/ˈprɒpəɡeɪtə/, U.S.

/ˈprɑpəˌɡeɪdər/

Forms: 1500s– propagator, 1600s propagater.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin propāgātor.

Etymology: < classical Latin propāgātor person who extends something in time or space, in post-classical Latin also person who begets or produces offspring (4th cent.) < propāgāt- , past participial stem of propāgāre (also prōpāgāre ) propagate v. + -or -or suffix. Compare Middle French, French propagateur person who propagates a religion (1495; subsequently from c1700), person who begets or produces offspring (1658), person who disseminates or promotes an idea or practice in general (1787), Italian propagatore person who disseminates or promotes a belief, idea, or practice, person who spreads lies or scandal (a1653), Spanish propagador person who propagates a religion (mid 16th cent. or earlier), person who begets or produces offspring (early 17th cent. or earlier).With the form propagater compare -er suffix¹.

a. A person who begets or produces offspring; (now chiefly) a person who causes a race to continue in being by procreation.In quot. 1585: †a divine creator or originator (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > procreator, parent, or origin

motherOE

stallionc1305

childbearera1382

getterc1390

begetter1440

procreator1548

propagator1585

procreatrix1593

breeder1594

procreatress1597

pregnatress1651

multiplier1660

parent1670

propagatrix1803

baby-maker1968

1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke 24 The heathnish Philosophy of Aristotle..assigneth no Author nor propagator vnto the essences or natures, which it saith to be eternall.

1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects xiii. 88 The Tempest destroyed all people, sauing a few that the Lord permitted Vistney to couer with the skirt of his preseruation, reserued to be the Propagaters of mankinde in the third Age.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 32 [They] must needs depend on some prime Propagator, as all Families do.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 203. ¶7 Were I to propose a Punishment for this infamous Race of Propagators, it should be to send them..into our American Colonies..to People those Parts..where there is a want of Inhabitants.

1874 J. Miller Unwritten Hist.: Life amongst Modocs (new ed.) xix. 272 Instead of the grizzly bear being a bad Indian undergoing a sort of purgatory for his sins, he is held to be a propagator of their race.

1888 Amer. Anthropologist 1 303 The weak, physically, mentally, and morally, are selected to become propagators of the race.

1911 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 17 132 He leaves us somewhat uncertain how far he regards her [sc. woman] as a human being, a part of the race, and how far only a propagator of it.

1978 A. McLaren Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century Eng. ii. ii. 53 Women would no longer be viewed assimple propagators of the species, but as men's helpmates.

1992 F. Masiello Between Civilization & Barbarism ii. iv. 121 As propagators of the race but lacking both sense and sensibility, they engender effete and dysfunctional heirs.

†b. The penis. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis

weapona1000

tarsec1000

pintleOE

cock?c1335

pillicock?c1335

yard1379

arrowa1382

looma1400

vergea1400

instrumentc1405

fidcocka1475

privya1500

virile member (or yard)?1541

prickc1555

tool1563

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codpiece1584

needle1592

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dildo1597

nag1598

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rubigo?a1600

Jack1604

mentula1605

virge1608

prependent1610

flute1611

other thing1628

engine1634

manhood1640

cod1650

quillity1653

rammer1653

runnion1655

pego1663

sex1664

propagator1670

membrum virile1672

nervea1680

whore-pipe1684

Roger1689

pudding1693

handle?1731

machine1749

shaft1772

jock1790

poker1811

dickyc1815

Johnny?1833

organ1833

intromittent apparatus1836

root1846

Johnson1863

Peter1870

John Henry1874

dickc1890

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John Thomasc1890

old fellowc1890

Aaron's rod1891

dingle-dangle1893

middle leg1896

mole1896

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micky1898

baby-maker1902

old man1902

pecker1902

pizzle1902

willy1905

ding-dong1906

mickey1909

pencil1916

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Johna1922

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dong1930

putz1934

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weenie1939

length1949

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dinger1953

winky1954

dork1961

virilia1962

rig1964

wee-wee1964

Percy1965

meat tool1966

chopper1967

schlong1967

swipe1967

chode1968

trouser snake1968

ding-a-ling1969

dipstick1970

tonk1970

noonies1972

salami1977

monkey1978

langer1983

wanker1987

1670 J. Ogilby Africa 451 Lastly, they have little Bellies, broad Feet, long Toes, and furnish'd, as most of the Blacks upon the Guinee Coast, with large Propagators.

2. A person who disseminates or promotes a belief, idea, practice, etc.; a person who spreads lies, scandal, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > person who

publisherc1453

bruiter1535

dissipater1537

spreader1542

utterer1549

setter-outc1553

disperser1580

seed carrier1602

divulger1606

propagator1610

promulgera1635

dispreader1636

divulgater1637

promulgater1637

diffuser1645

promulgator1648

disseminator1667

circulator1792

vulgarizer1899

forthteller1920

vulgarisateur1933

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. v. 536 These bretheren were both cittizens of the earthly cittie and propagators of the glory of Rome.

1655 W. Guild Anti-Christ pointed & painted Out xiii. 110 Shee [sc. Rome]..Being not onlie guiltie herself of idolatrie.., But, also, being the propagater thereof to all other parts under her jurisdiction.

1699 R. Barret Compan. for Midwives 92 The Propagaters of new Doctrines use all possible Intrigues to duckoy a child into their Communion.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Ubiquists G. Hornius will only allow Brentius to be the first Propagator of Ubiquitism.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxvvii. 184 The inventor, the propagator and believer of an illiberal report alike so injurious to him.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 167 These writers, like the propagators of all novelties, pretended to a great zeal for the poor, and the lower orders.

1812 Ld. Ellenborough in Examiner 28 Dec. 832/2 The defendant was not proved to be the institutor, but only the propagator, of the libel.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 455 A zealous propagator of Christianity.

1936 J. C. Goodwin One of Crowd xix. 271 Speakers' Corner is a mixed grill of apostles and propagators, of oddities and crudities, of fanatics and eccentrics.

1962 L. J. Daly Polit. Theory J. Wyclif 16 A close follower and propagator of the views of St. Thomas on philosophy and theology.

2001 Times 31 Aug. ii. 7/6 The commissars of the Architectural Press..regarded him as a pushy eccentric and—far worse—a propagator of prefabs.

a. A person who grows plants; a producer of new plants from a parent stock, seed, etc. Also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1658 J. Evelyn in tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner Ep. Ded. sig. A3^v The Palisades and Contr-Espaliers of Alaternus, which most incomparable Verdure, together with the right culture of it, for beauty and fence, I might glory to have been the first propagator in England.

1669 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ 274 Propagator, a Planter.

a1798 T. Pennant View of Hindoostan (1800) III. 174 In Chinese Tartary the Bobak Marmots..are said to be the propagators of Rhubarb.

1827 Times 19 Mar. 4/2 (advt.) A first-rate fruit grower and a good propagator of trees, shrubs, and plants.

1863 J. D. Hooker Let. 23–27 May in C. Darwin Corr. (1999) XI. 439 As to a head propagator being away an hour daily & that a fixed hour, I do not doubt it is most inexpedient.

1906 Science 19 Oct. 499/1 The propagator..observed that some animal was eating their tender shoots.

1947 D. Wyman Arboretums & Bot. Gardens N. Amer. 417 The services of an experienced propagator are essential.

2002 Water Gardener July 6 He is also a highly skilled propagator and raises a vast range of water lilies.

b. A forcing frame for plants; (now chiefly) a covered container, typically heated, filled with earth or compost and used for germinating seeds or raising seedlings.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > propagator

propagator1885

mist propagator1963

1885 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 30 Mar. 1254/2 A well made propagator, zinc, can be heated with gas or oil lamp, very useful for raising flower seeds or striking cuttings.

1914 W. F. Rowles Garden under Glass i. 16 The propagator itself may consist of a box..covered by loose sheets of glass.

1950 E. J. King Propagation of Plants iii. 29 A propagator is a small frame built inside a heated greenhouse in such a way as to give even higher temperatures than those in the main part of the house.

1971 Daily Tel. 13 Feb. 7/3 A week or two lost in raising seeds in a heated greenhouse, or electric propagator in the home, is not a matter of extreme urgency.

1996 Amateur Gardening 25 May 40/1 Sow easy-to-grow coleus (now correctly called solenstemon) in a windowsill propagator.

4. Particle Physics. An algebraic function representing the propagation of a particle on the subatomic scale, esp. between its space–time points of creation and annihilation.

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the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [noun] > function representing propagation

propagation function1949

propagator1951

1951 Physical Rev. 84 1233/1 G′(1,2), the ‘quantum propagator’, is a function of (x_μ1x_μ3) not containing any Dirac operators.

1986 P. C. West Introd. Supersymmetry & Supergravity xvii. 159 By explicitly performing the integration in Z₀[j,J] we obtain the propagators of the theory.

1997 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 453 438 The propagator with the drift terms set to zero is the pure fluctuation propagator.

Derivatives

† propagatress n. Obsolete rare. = propagatrix n.

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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > person who > female

propagatress1653

propagatrix1655

promulgatress1660

1653 J. Howell German Diet sig. Iii2^v You have been persuaded to believe that Italy is the source of civility, the nurce of noblenes and vertue, the prime propagatresse of piety and learning.

1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 89 The prime Propagatresse of Religion and Learning.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	propagator
释义	propagatorn. Brit. /ˈprɒpəɡeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈprɑpəˌɡeɪdər/ Forms: 1500s– propagator, 1600s propagater. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin propāgātor. Etymology: < classical Latin propāgātor person who extends something in time or space, in post-classical Latin also person who begets or produces offspring (4th cent.) < propāgāt- , past participial stem of propāgāre (also prōpāgāre ) propagate v. + -or -or suffix. Compare Middle French, French propagateur person who propagates a religion (1495; subsequently from c1700), person who begets or produces offspring (1658), person who disseminates or promotes an idea or practice in general (1787), Italian propagatore person who disseminates or promotes a belief, idea, or practice, person who spreads lies or scandal (a1653), Spanish propagador person who propagates a religion (mid 16th cent. or earlier), person who begets or produces offspring (early 17th cent. or earlier).With the form propagater compare -er suffix¹. 1. a. A person who begets or produces offspring; (now chiefly) a person who causes a race to continue in being by procreation.In quot. 1585: †a divine creator or originator (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > procreator, parent, or origin motherOE stallionc1305 childbearera1382 getterc1390 begetter1440 procreator1548 propagator1585 procreatrix1593 breeder1594 procreatress1597 pregnatress1651 multiplier1660 parent1670 propagatrix1803 baby-maker1968 1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke 24 The heathnish Philosophy of Aristotle..assigneth no Author nor propagator vnto the essences or natures, which it saith to be eternall. 1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects xiii. 88 The Tempest destroyed all people, sauing a few that the Lord permitted Vistney to couer with the skirt of his preseruation, reserued to be the Propagaters of mankinde in the third Age. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 32 [They] must needs depend on some prime Propagator, as all Families do. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 203. ¶7 Were I to propose a Punishment for this infamous Race of Propagators, it should be to send them..into our American Colonies..to People those Parts..where there is a want of Inhabitants. 1874 J. Miller Unwritten Hist.: Life amongst Modocs (new ed.) xix. 272 Instead of the grizzly bear being a bad Indian undergoing a sort of purgatory for his sins, he is held to be a propagator of their race. 1888 Amer. Anthropologist 1 303 The weak, physically, mentally, and morally, are selected to become propagators of the race. 1911 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 17 132 He leaves us somewhat uncertain how far he regards her [sc. woman] as a human being, a part of the race, and how far only a propagator of it. 1978 A. McLaren Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century Eng. ii. ii. 53 Women would no longer be viewed assimple propagators of the species, but as men's helpmates. 1992 F. Masiello Between Civilization & Barbarism ii. iv. 121 As propagators of the race but lacking both sense and sensibility, they engender effete and dysfunctional heirs. †b. The penis. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis weapona1000 tarsec1000 pintleOE cock?c1335 pillicock?c1335 yard1379 arrowa1382 looma1400 vergea1400 instrumentc1405 fidcocka1475 privya1500 virile member (or yard)?1541 prickc1555 tool1563 pillock1568 penis1578 codpiece1584 needle1592 bauble1593 dildo1597 nag1598 virility1598 ferret1599 rubigo?a1600 Jack1604 mentula1605 virge1608 prependent1610 flute1611 other thing1628 engine1634 manhood1640 cod1650 quillity1653 rammer1653 runnion1655 pego1663 sex1664 propagator1670 membrum virile1672 nervea1680 whore-pipe1684 Roger1689 pudding1693 handle?1731 machine1749 shaft1772 jock1790 poker1811 dickyc1815 Johnny?1833 organ1833 intromittent apparatus1836 root1846 Johnson1863 Peter1870 John Henry1874 dickc1890 dingusc1890 John Thomasc1890 old fellowc1890 Aaron's rod1891 dingle-dangle1893 middle leg1896 mole1896 pisser1896 micky1898 baby-maker1902 old man1902 pecker1902 pizzle1902 willy1905 ding-dong1906 mickey1909 pencil1916 dingbatc1920 plonkerc1920 Johna1922 whangera1922 knob1922 tube1922 ding1926 pee-pee1927 prong1927 pud1927 hose1928 whang1928 dong1930 putz1934 porkc1935 wiener1935 weenie1939 length1949 tadger1949 winkle1951 dinger1953 winky1954 dork1961 virilia1962 rig1964 wee-wee1964 Percy1965 meat tool1966 chopper1967 schlong1967 swipe1967 chode1968 trouser snake1968 ding-a-ling1969 dipstick1970 tonk1970 noonies1972 salami1977 monkey1978 langer1983 wanker1987 1670 J. Ogilby Africa 451 Lastly, they have little Bellies, broad Feet, long Toes, and furnish'd, as most of the Blacks upon the Guinee Coast, with large Propagators. 2. A person who disseminates or promotes a belief, idea, practice, etc.; a person who spreads lies, scandal, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > person who publisherc1453 bruiter1535 dissipater1537 spreader1542 utterer1549 setter-outc1553 disperser1580 seed carrier1602 divulger1606 propagator1610 promulgera1635 dispreader1636 divulgater1637 promulgater1637 diffuser1645 promulgator1648 disseminator1667 circulator1792 vulgarizer1899 forthteller1920 vulgarisateur1933 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. v. 536 These bretheren were both cittizens of the earthly cittie and propagators of the glory of Rome. 1655 W. Guild Anti-Christ pointed & painted Out xiii. 110 Shee [sc. Rome]..Being not onlie guiltie herself of idolatrie.., But, also, being the propagater thereof to all other parts under her jurisdiction. 1699 R. Barret Compan. for Midwives 92 The Propagaters of new Doctrines use all possible Intrigues to duckoy a child into their Communion. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Ubiquists G. Hornius will only allow Brentius to be the first Propagator of Ubiquitism. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxvvii. 184 The inventor, the propagator and believer of an illiberal report alike so injurious to him. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 167 These writers, like the propagators of all novelties, pretended to a great zeal for the poor, and the lower orders. View more context for this quotation 1812 Ld. Ellenborough in Examiner 28 Dec. 832/2 The defendant was not proved to be the institutor, but only the propagator, of the libel. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 455 A zealous propagator of Christianity. 1936 J. C. Goodwin One of Crowd xix. 271 Speakers' Corner is a mixed grill of apostles and propagators, of oddities and crudities, of fanatics and eccentrics. 1962 L. J. Daly Polit. Theory J. Wyclif 16 A close follower and propagator of the views of St. Thomas on philosophy and theology. 2001 Times 31 Aug. ii. 7/6 The commissars of the Architectural Press..regarded him as a pushy eccentric and—far worse—a propagator of prefabs. 3. a. A person who grows plants; a producer of new plants from a parent stock, seed, etc. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1658 J. Evelyn in tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner Ep. Ded. sig. A3^v The Palisades and Contr-Espaliers of Alaternus, which most incomparable Verdure, together with the right culture of it, for beauty and fence, I might glory to have been the first propagator in England. 1669 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ 274 Propagator, a Planter. a1798 T. Pennant View of Hindoostan (1800) III. 174 In Chinese Tartary the Bobak Marmots..are said to be the propagators of Rhubarb. 1827 Times 19 Mar. 4/2 (advt.) A first-rate fruit grower and a good propagator of trees, shrubs, and plants. 1863 J. D. Hooker Let. 23–27 May in C. Darwin Corr. (1999) XI. 439 As to a head propagator being away an hour daily & that a fixed hour, I do not doubt it is most inexpedient. 1906 Science 19 Oct. 499/1 The propagator..observed that some animal was eating their tender shoots. 1947 D. Wyman Arboretums & Bot. Gardens N. Amer. 417 The services of an experienced propagator are essential. 2002 Water Gardener July 6 He is also a highly skilled propagator and raises a vast range of water lilies. b. A forcing frame for plants; (now chiefly) a covered container, typically heated, filled with earth or compost and used for germinating seeds or raising seedlings. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > propagator propagator1885 mist propagator1963 1885 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 30 Mar. 1254/2 A well made propagator, zinc, can be heated with gas or oil lamp, very useful for raising flower seeds or striking cuttings. 1914 W. F. Rowles Garden under Glass i. 16 The propagator itself may consist of a box..covered by loose sheets of glass. 1950 E. J. King Propagation of Plants iii. 29 A propagator is a small frame built inside a heated greenhouse in such a way as to give even higher temperatures than those in the main part of the house. 1971 Daily Tel. 13 Feb. 7/3 A week or two lost in raising seeds in a heated greenhouse, or electric propagator in the home, is not a matter of extreme urgency. 1996 Amateur Gardening 25 May 40/1 Sow easy-to-grow coleus (now correctly called solenstemon) in a windowsill propagator. 4. Particle Physics. An algebraic function representing the propagation of a particle on the subatomic scale, esp. between its space–time points of creation and annihilation. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [noun] > function representing propagation propagation function1949 propagator1951 1951 Physical Rev. 84 1233/1 G′(1,2), the ‘quantum propagator’, is a function of (x_μ1x_μ3) not containing any Dirac operators. 1986 P. C. West Introd. Supersymmetry & Supergravity xvii. 159 By explicitly performing the integration in Z₀[j,J] we obtain the propagators of the theory. 1997 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 453 438 The propagator with the drift terms set to zero is the pure fluctuation propagator. Derivatives † propagatress n. Obsolete rare. = propagatrix n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > person who > female propagatress1653 propagatrix1655 promulgatress1660 1653 J. Howell German Diet sig. Iii2^v You have been persuaded to believe that Italy is the source of civility, the nurce of noblenes and vertue, the prime propagatresse of piety and learning. 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 89 The prime Propagatresse of Religion and Learning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1585
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