quadrupedn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈkwɒdrᵿpɛd/, U.S.

/ˈkwɑdrəˌpɛd/

Forms: 1600s–1700s quadrupede, 1600s–1700s quadrupid (perhaps transmission error), 1600s– quadruped.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin quadruped-, quadrupēs.

Etymology: < classical Latin quadruped-, quadrupēs (adjective) four-footed, (noun) four-footed animal, domestic animal, horse, in post-classical Latin also (adjective) having four metrical feet (4th cent.) < quadru- quadru- comb. form + pēs foot (see -ped comb. form). Compare Middle French, French quadrupède , adjective and noun (beginning of the 14th cent. as noun). Compare earlier quadrupeded adj.

A. n.

a. An animal which has four feet; esp. a mammal.Until the 19th cent., often used as a technical term for terrestrial vertebrates other than birds (sometimes also excluding snakes), or specifically for mammals (excluding four-footed reptiles and amphibians). Now only as a descriptive term. Cf. tetrapod n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > (parts) of foot > quadruped

beastc1300

quadruped1607

quadrupedal1648

tetrapod1833

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > quadruped

quadruped1607

quadrupedal1648

huffer1729

four-footer1906

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 4 The vpper part of their [sc. Apes] body is far greater then the neather, like other Quadrupedes.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 104 Quadrupedes, Volatills and Fishes..have distinct and prominent organs of motion, legs, wings, and fins.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 2 The knees or flexure of his fore legs forwards (as in most quadrupeds).

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. ii. 21 Quadrupedes of the Serpentine Breed.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 105 The arms of men but very little resemble the fore feet of quadrupedes.

1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 25 In quadrupeds, the ear is nearly as large in the young as in the full grown animal.

1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) vi. 258 If..we compare..serpent-worship with quadruped-worship..we shall find that it has no exceptionally wide area.

1898 A. S. Woodward Outl. Vertebr. Palæontol. 319 They [sc. Perissodactyla] are all digitigrade quadrupeds, with the axis of both feet passing through the digit No. iii.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 659 With few exceptions mammals are quadrupeds.

1959 A. C. Hardy Open Sea II. xv. 269 An elephant is near the limit of bigness for a terrestrial quadruped.

1998 P. O'Brian Hundred Days ix. 252 Among the mere quadrupeds there were hyenas, of course, and an elegant leopard.

b. spec. A horse. Cf. quad n.³Frequently in humorous use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun]

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blonkOE

brockc1000

mareOE

stota1100

caplec1290

foala1300

rouncyc1300

scot1319

caballc1450

jade1553

chival1567

prancer1567

ball1570

pranker1591

roussin1602

wormly1606

cheval1609

sonipes1639

neigher1649

quadruped1660

keffel1699

prad1703

jig1706

hoss1815

cayuse1841

yarraman1848

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plug1860

bronco1869

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rabbit1882

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nanto1889

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goat1894

skin1918

bang-tail1921

horsy1923

steed-

1660 Scutum Regale: Royal Buckler 7 Even I..can hardly restrain the unbridled fierceness of the Quadrupedes.

1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 253 Others, with Swift..look on the noble quadrupede as superior to the man.

1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 220 The long straggling line of soldiers..with their quadrupeds and baggage.

1915 G. Farquar in Spectator 10 July 48/1 The density of the atmosphere as well as the tardiness of my quadruped have combined to make my matutine itineration rather intempestive.

1992 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Aug. 22 A new craze is geeing-up jaded yuppies—replacing the traditional boat and outboard with a noble quadruped, galloping full tilt through the shallows with a tripper in tow.

2. A line of verse with four metrical feet. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > line > other types of line

underverse1579

recurrent1605

serpentine verse1605

acatalectic1611

rumbler1670

Pindaric1697

quadruped1800

octonarius1819

asynartete1830

pada1855

chronostichon1859

jingle-jangle1864

sevener1920

1800 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 328 The French..make no difference between an anapaestic quadruped and a six-foot iambic.

1893 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 4 207 The strophe of four phrases always predominated in the simpler sorts of lyric poetry... It needs no great effort of the imagination to conceive it as a quadruped.

1970 W. Arndt tr. A. S. Pushkin in Russ. Rev. 29 314 The iambic quadruped has had full scope.

B. adj. (chiefly attributive).

1. Having four feet; designating a four-footed animal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed

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four-footedc1175

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tetrapod1859

quadrupedic1888

tetrapous1899

1649 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 50 The same incitement of appetite, whereby all Quadruped Animals are goaded on to their pastures.

1682 R. Saunders Several Epist. iii. 51 in View of Soul The spirits of these insects cannot transmigrate into specifick quadrupede bodies.

1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xvi. 227 The Cockney travelling into the Country is surprized at many Actions of the quadruped and winged Animals.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 622 Learn we might, if not too proud to stoop To quadruped instructors.

1834 H. Caunter Oriental Ann. vi. 65 This herd of quadruped giants was only at a short distance from us.

1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. ii. 68 The Mammalia are..for the most part quadruped.

1990 C. Pellant Rocks, Minerals & Fossils 167/1 The Ornithischia..are both bipedal and quadruped and lived in herds like modern herbivorous mammals.

2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a quadruped or quadrupeds; (of a stance or motion) involving the use of four feet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed > of a quadruped

quadrupedian1647

quadrupedal1660

quadrupedial1663

four-footeda1682

quadrupedan1800

tetrapodous1831

quadrupeda1835

a1835 J. Macculloch Proofs & Illustr. Attributes God (1837) II. xxv. 21 The Kangaroo labours under an invention which is an infringement on the general simple and effectual one for quadruped motion.

1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 173 I do not press the skepticism of the materialist. I know, the quadruped opinion will not prevail.

1968 Brain 91 397 As well as dealing with the standing posture, the problems posed by weight-bearing in the various types of quadruped and biped locomotion are considered.

2001 S. T. Asma Stuffed Animals & Pickled Heads v. 169 The quadruped body plan underlies many different kinds of animal anatomies.

Derivatives

† quadrupedan adj. Obsolete rare = sense B. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed > of a quadruped

quadrupedian1647

quadrupedal1660

quadrupedial1663

four-footeda1682

quadrupedan1800

tetrapodous1831

quadrupeda1835

1800 B. Moseley Med. Tracts 183 Who knows..but that the human character may undergo strange mutations from quadrupedan sympathy; and that some modern Pasiphaë may rival the fables of old.

† quadrupedial adj. Obsolete rare = quadrupedal adj.

ΚΠ

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxxv. 450 Too near a compartization with those quadrupedial furies which he hath inferiorated to man in reason.

1850 Househ. Words 28 Sept. 8/1 He would remind his quadrupedial friends..that the Hippopotamus had not presumptuously put himself forward.

quadruˈpedic adj. rare = quadrupedal adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed

fetherfootedc1175

four-footedc1175

four-foota1400

quadrupeded1542

quadrupedal1620

quadruped1649

quadrupedant1656

quadrupedical1824

tetrapod1859

quadrupedic1888

tetrapous1899

1888 Daily News 26 June 9/1 The episcopal bacon which..roams, quadrupedic, among the potato beds.

1985 Pharmacol. & Therapeutics 31 104 When man assumed an upright posture he created a problem not experienced by quadrupedic species.

† quadrupedical adj. Obsolete rare = quadrupedal adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed

fetherfootedc1175

four-footedc1175

four-foota1400

quadrupeded1542

quadrupedal1620

quadruped1649

quadrupedant1656

quadrupedical1824

tetrapod1859

quadrupedic1888

tetrapous1899

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 681 Devoured or mutilated by (apparently) some hungry quadrupedical animal.

quadruˈpedous adj. rare = quadrupedal adj.

ΚΠ

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. Quadrupedous.

1803 W. O. Pughe Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg: Welsh & Eng. Dict. II Pedwarcarnaug, having four hoofs, quadrupedous.

1911 W. Ogle tr. Aristotle Partibus Animalium in J. A. Smith & W. D. Ross Wks. Aristotle V. iv. ii. 692 We have now done with such sanguineous animals as are quadrupedous and also such as are apodous.

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

单词	quadruped
释义	quadrupedn.adj. Brit. /ˈkwɒdrᵿpɛd/, U.S. /ˈkwɑdrəˌpɛd/ Forms: 1600s–1700s quadrupede, 1600s–1700s quadrupid (perhaps transmission error), 1600s– quadruped. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin quadruped-, quadrupēs. Etymology: < classical Latin quadruped-, quadrupēs (adjective) four-footed, (noun) four-footed animal, domestic animal, horse, in post-classical Latin also (adjective) having four metrical feet (4th cent.) < quadru- quadru- comb. form + pēs foot (see -ped comb. form). Compare Middle French, French quadrupède , adjective and noun (beginning of the 14th cent. as noun). Compare earlier quadrupeded adj. A. n. 1. a. An animal which has four feet; esp. a mammal.Until the 19th cent., often used as a technical term for terrestrial vertebrates other than birds (sometimes also excluding snakes), or specifically for mammals (excluding four-footed reptiles and amphibians). Now only as a descriptive term. Cf. tetrapod n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > (parts) of foot > quadruped beastc1300 quadruped1607 quadrupedal1648 tetrapod1833 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > quadruped quadruped1607 quadrupedal1648 huffer1729 four-footer1906 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 4 The vpper part of their [sc. Apes] body is far greater then the neather, like other Quadrupedes. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 104 Quadrupedes, Volatills and Fishes..have distinct and prominent organs of motion, legs, wings, and fins. View more context for this quotation 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 2 The knees or flexure of his fore legs forwards (as in most quadrupeds). 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. ii. 21 Quadrupedes of the Serpentine Breed. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 105 The arms of men but very little resemble the fore feet of quadrupedes. 1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 25 In quadrupeds, the ear is nearly as large in the young as in the full grown animal. 1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) vi. 258 If..we compare..serpent-worship with quadruped-worship..we shall find that it has no exceptionally wide area. 1898 A. S. Woodward Outl. Vertebr. Palæontol. 319 They [sc. Perissodactyla] are all digitigrade quadrupeds, with the axis of both feet passing through the digit No. iii. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 659 With few exceptions mammals are quadrupeds. 1959 A. C. Hardy Open Sea II. xv. 269 An elephant is near the limit of bigness for a terrestrial quadruped. 1998 P. O'Brian Hundred Days ix. 252 Among the mere quadrupeds there were hyenas, of course, and an elegant leopard. b. spec. A horse. Cf. quad n.³Frequently in humorous use. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] horsec825 blonkOE brockc1000 mareOE stota1100 caplec1290 foala1300 rouncyc1300 scot1319 caballc1450 jade1553 chival1567 prancer1567 ball1570 pranker1591 roussin1602 wormly1606 cheval1609 sonipes1639 neigher1649 quadruped1660 keffel1699 prad1703 jig1706 hoss1815 cayuse1841 yarraman1848 quad1854 plug1860 bronco1869 gee-gee1869 quadrupedant1870 rabbit1882 gee1887 neddy1887 nanto1889 prod1891 goat1894 skin1918 bang-tail1921 horsy1923 steed- 1660 Scutum Regale: Royal Buckler 7 Even I..can hardly restrain the unbridled fierceness of the Quadrupedes. 1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 253 Others, with Swift..look on the noble quadrupede as superior to the man. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 220 The long straggling line of soldiers..with their quadrupeds and baggage. 1915 G. Farquar in Spectator 10 July 48/1 The density of the atmosphere as well as the tardiness of my quadruped have combined to make my matutine itineration rather intempestive. 1992 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Aug. 22 A new craze is geeing-up jaded yuppies—replacing the traditional boat and outboard with a noble quadruped, galloping full tilt through the shallows with a tripper in tow. 2. A line of verse with four metrical feet. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > line > other types of line underverse1579 recurrent1605 serpentine verse1605 acatalectic1611 rumbler1670 Pindaric1697 quadruped1800 octonarius1819 asynartete1830 pada1855 chronostichon1859 jingle-jangle1864 sevener1920 1800 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 328 The French..make no difference between an anapaestic quadruped and a six-foot iambic. 1893 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 4 207 The strophe of four phrases always predominated in the simpler sorts of lyric poetry... It needs no great effort of the imagination to conceive it as a quadruped. 1970 W. Arndt tr. A. S. Pushkin in Russ. Rev. 29 314 The iambic quadruped has had full scope. B. adj. (chiefly attributive). 1. Having four feet; designating a four-footed animal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed fetherfootedc1175 four-footedc1175 four-foota1400 quadrupeded1542 quadrupedal1620 quadruped1649 quadrupedant1656 quadrupedical1824 tetrapod1859 quadrupedic1888 tetrapous1899 1649 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 50 The same incitement of appetite, whereby all Quadruped Animals are goaded on to their pastures. 1682 R. Saunders Several Epist. iii. 51 in View of Soul The spirits of these insects cannot transmigrate into specifick quadrupede bodies. 1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xvi. 227 The Cockney travelling into the Country is surprized at many Actions of the quadruped and winged Animals. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 622 Learn we might, if not too proud to stoop To quadruped instructors. 1834 H. Caunter Oriental Ann. vi. 65 This herd of quadruped giants was only at a short distance from us. 1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. ii. 68 The Mammalia are..for the most part quadruped. 1990 C. Pellant Rocks, Minerals & Fossils 167/1 The Ornithischia..are both bipedal and quadruped and lived in herds like modern herbivorous mammals. 2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a quadruped or quadrupeds; (of a stance or motion) involving the use of four feet. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed > of a quadruped quadrupedian1647 quadrupedal1660 quadrupedial1663 four-footeda1682 quadrupedan1800 tetrapodous1831 quadrupeda1835 a1835 J. Macculloch Proofs & Illustr. Attributes God (1837) II. xxv. 21 The Kangaroo labours under an invention which is an infringement on the general simple and effectual one for quadruped motion. 1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 173 I do not press the skepticism of the materialist. I know, the quadruped opinion will not prevail. 1968 Brain 91 397 As well as dealing with the standing posture, the problems posed by weight-bearing in the various types of quadruped and biped locomotion are considered. 2001 S. T. Asma Stuffed Animals & Pickled Heads v. 169 The quadruped body plan underlies many different kinds of animal anatomies. Derivatives † quadrupedan adj. Obsolete rare = sense B. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed > of a quadruped quadrupedian1647 quadrupedal1660 quadrupedial1663 four-footeda1682 quadrupedan1800 tetrapodous1831 quadrupeda1835 1800 B. Moseley Med. Tracts 183 Who knows..but that the human character may undergo strange mutations from quadrupedan sympathy; and that some modern Pasiphaë may rival the fables of old. † quadrupedial adj. Obsolete rare = quadrupedal adj. ΚΠ 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxxv. 450 Too near a compartization with those quadrupedial furies which he hath inferiorated to man in reason. 1850 Househ. Words 28 Sept. 8/1 He would remind his quadrupedial friends..that the Hippopotamus had not presumptuously put himself forward. quadruˈpedic adj. rare = quadrupedal adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed fetherfootedc1175 four-footedc1175 four-foota1400 quadrupeded1542 quadrupedal1620 quadruped1649 quadrupedant1656 quadrupedical1824 tetrapod1859 quadrupedic1888 tetrapous1899 1888 Daily News 26 June 9/1 The episcopal bacon which..roams, quadrupedic, among the potato beds. 1985 Pharmacol. & Therapeutics 31 104 When man assumed an upright posture he created a problem not experienced by quadrupedic species. † quadrupedical adj. Obsolete rare = quadrupedal adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed fetherfootedc1175 four-footedc1175 four-foota1400 quadrupeded1542 quadrupedal1620 quadruped1649 quadrupedant1656 quadrupedical1824 tetrapod1859 quadrupedic1888 tetrapous1899 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 681 Devoured or mutilated by (apparently) some hungry quadrupedical animal. quadruˈpedous adj. rare = quadrupedal adj. ΚΠ 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. Quadrupedous. 1803 W. O. Pughe Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg: Welsh & Eng. Dict. II Pedwarcarnaug, having four hoofs, quadrupedous. 1911 W. Ogle tr. Aristotle Partibus Animalium in J. A. Smith & W. D. Ross Wks. Aristotle V. iv. ii. 692 We have now done with such sanguineous animals as are quadrupedous and also such as are apodous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1607
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