单词 | pupillary |
释义 | pupillaryadj.1 1. Civil Law and Scots Law. Of or relating to a person below the legal age of puberty; spec. of or relating to such a person who is also a ward. Cf. pupil n.1 1. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of childlyeOE childishOE childen?c1225 childheady1340 puerile1527 pupillary1611 pupillar1832 bread-and-buttery1858 chittish1871 brattish1879 kiddish1897 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Pupilaire Pupillarie, of or belonging to a Pupill. 1656 Brechin Test. VI. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 12 Efter the expyring of my said children ther pupillarie age I will them to make choyse of the..curatoris to them. a1732 J. Ayliffe New Pandect Rom. Civil Law (1734) ii. 63 The first is stiled Infancy..And..ends in the seventh Year complete, both in Male and Female. The second is the Pupillary Age, in Latin stiled Pueritia or Childhood. 1772 W. Bollan Britannia Libera 37 The lord took custody of the feodal lands, and of the pupilary heir, with their marriage. 1809 Times 14 Nov. 2/5 He..seized the provincial, pupillary, and credit-funds. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxvii. 249 Rosey was in a pupillary state..her duty was to obey the wishes of her dear Mamma. 1919 Washington Post 23 Mar. (Features and Fiction section) 4/4 He felt ‘like robbing a pupillary fund’ when dining in a house where so many others, having a better right to the food, went unprovided. 1988 D. Johnston Rom. Law Trusts (BNC) 208 They are substitutes (both pupillary and vulgar) for the half originally destined for the children. 2. Of, relating to, or belonging to a pupil, student, or scholar. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [adjective] > pupil pupillary1844 pupillar1888 1844 Times 11 May 7/6 Those exploits..have been accomplished at an age which graybeards would comprise within the limits of pupillary, if not nursery life. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 56 Scholarships and exhibitions are stipends enjoyed by students in the pupillary state. 1925 Times 3 July 14/2 There was no individual performance which justifies special mention on the grounds of the player having advanced beyond the pupillary stage. 1997 Boston Globe (Nexis) 15 Nov. c10 The program for her Symphony Hall recital..read like a conservatory graduation recital, but there was precious little about it that sounded pupillary or newly studied. Compounds pupillary substitution n. (also substitution pupillary) [after classical Latin substitūtiō pūpillāris; compare Spanish sustitución pupilar (end of the 15th cent. as sostituçion pupillar), French substitution pupillaire (1690)] Civil Law and Scots Law (now historical) nomination of a substitute to take the place of someone who dies before inheriting, or succeeds as heir but then dies before attaining puberty. ΚΠ 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 132 A Legator may make a Substitution Pupillary. a1732 J. Ayliffe New Pandect Rom. Civil Law (1734) iii. xvi. 375 Pupillary substitution. 1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Ulpian Rules xxiii, in tr. Gaius Institutes 414 A parent may make a [pupillary] substitution even to his disinherited children. 1902 Yale Law Jrnl. 11 334 In 1604, after Governor Figueroa had died, the pupillary substitution ordered in his will was effected—his daughter..having died at sea in that year. 2000 T. Kuehn in T. Cross Moral World of Law vii. 122 It made possible an extension of pupillary substitution to a son who had in fact reached the age of majority, as well as to heirs not subject to the testator's potestas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pupillaryadj.2 Of or relating to the pupil of the eye. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [adjective] > pupil pupillary1763 pupillar1779 interpupillary1907 1763 Med. Museum II. 422 I cannot see why this pupillary web should not be ranked among the constant organical and vascular Membranes of the fœtus. 1793 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 178 The lateral parts of the pupillary margin of the uvea. 1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 405 A brownish grey, which is of the deepest colour in the Pupilary Ring. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 836 The pupillary diameter is subject to a considerable range of variation. 1928 Science 17 Feb. 179/2 He may know the oculo-motor nerve of the eye, but what has he seen of convergence, accommodation or pupillary reactions? 1962 D. G. Cogan in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism 292 The epithelium in the pupillary area first takes on an unusual basophilia. 2005 Jrnl. Exper. Biol. 208 263/2 In most vertebrates pupil constriction is caused by a sphincter muscle encircling the pupillary margin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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