reservationn.

Brit.

/ˌrɛzəˈveɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌrɛzərˈveɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English reseruacioun, Middle English reseruacoun, Middle English–1500s reseruacion, 1500s reseruacyon, 1500s–1600s reseruation, 1500s– reservation; Scottish pre-1700 reseruation, pre-1700 reseruatioun, pre-1700 reservacione, pre-1700 reservacioun, pre-1700 reservatione, pre-1700 reservatioun, pre-1700 reservatioune, pre-1700 1700s– reservation.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French reservation; Latin reservation-, reservatio.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman reservacion, Anglo-Norman and Middle French reservation holding back (14th cent. in Anglo-Norman), prerogative, right reserved to someone, action of reserving a right (c1350, especially with reference to nomination to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice), (in law) retention of rights (after a transfer of property, etc.) (a1369 in Anglo-Norman), clause which modifies and limits a contract (1393), restriction (in a pardon) (end of the 14th cent.) and its etymon post-classical Latin reservation-, reservatio preservation, conservation (4th cent.), action or fact of reserving or retaining for oneself some right or interest in property which is being conveyed to another (6th cent.), action, on the part of the Pope, of reserving to himself the right of nomination to a vacant benefice (frequently from mid 13th cent. in British sources), action of keeping back (from 13th cent. in British sources), mental limitation or qualification made with regard to something (from 14th cent. in British sources, especially with mentalis ) < classical Latin reservāt- , past participial stem of reservāre reserve v.¹ + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish reservación (15th cent., now rare), Italian riservazione (14th cent.). Compare reserve n.

a. Chiefly Law. The action or fact of reserving or retaining for oneself some right or interest in property, esp. in property which is being conveyed, rented, etc., to another; an instance of this; a right or interest retained in this way; the clause or part of a deed by which something is thus reserved.Originally spec. with reference to the reserving of tithes.

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society > law > transfer of property > [noun] > retention of interest in property transferred

reservationc1400

society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > church dues > tithe > reserving as tithe

reservationc1400

c1400 Last Age of Church (1840) p. xxiii (MED) Þei [sc. priests] make reseruaciouns þe whiche ben clepid dymes, ffirst fruytis, oþer penciouns.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 76 (MED) Wat trow we þis seynt [sc. Augustine] to cry þis day..aȝennis þe multitude of lawis of þe kirk incorporat and extriuagaunt..aȝen reseruacouns, aȝen furst frutis, and oþer spolingis of goodis of þe kirk.

1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 §8. m. 4 That..all other actes..be as to the seid fee ferme onely,..except þe seid reservacioun of .xviij.li. .v.s., void and adnulled.

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxii. f. lv If a man make a feffement & reserue the profytes..that reseruacyon ys voyde in the lawe.

1564 tr. M. Flacius Illyricus Godly Admon. Decrees Counsel of Trent 108 Those [churches]..may neuer henceforth be burdened with pensions or reseruations of fruits aboue the halfe.

1629 Vse of Law 36 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light He reserued some retribution of rents or seruices or both, to him and to his heires; which reseruation is that, which is called the tenure of Land.

1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. v. §431. 186 When shee had the third part of the land, out of which the reservation was made, it is reason that she should be attendant for..the rent that was reserved.

1699 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1761) II. 33 The muir was divided..with an express reservation of the coal to the Lord Liviston.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 290 The reddendum or reservation, whereby the grantor doth create or reserve some new thing to himself out of what he had before granted.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. v. 39 When a landed estate, therefore, is sold with a reservation of a perpetual rent [etc.] .

1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. IV. 317 The reservation was in the same terms with the power, and, consequently, was pursuant to it.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 295 A reservation was made of a royalty of 20% on all silver produced.

1933 Times 10 Jan. 6/1 Estates valued at £17,306 per annum were sold for no more than £24,579, with a reservation of perpetual rents amounting to £2,057 per annum.

1940 Virginia Law Rev. 27 225 Inter vivos transfer of property in trust, with reservation to the grantor of the power to change, alter or revoke in event he should marry.

1998 Independent (Nexis) 19 Dec. Until now, the Inland Revenue has barred this practice by treating such transfers as gifts with reservation of benefit, which could be ignored when the giver dies.

b. The action or fact of reserving (for oneself or another) a right, entitlement, privilege, etc.; a right, etc., reserved in this way.

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the mind > possession > retaining > [noun] > reserving for oneself or another

reservance1550

reservation1608

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 411 I gave you all..But kept a reseruation to be followed With such a number.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 429 His estate onely is liable..and yet with reseruation of such necessarie things, as Honestie, Honour, Humanitie, and Christianitie doth challenge.

a1683 A. Sidney Disc. Govt. (1704) iii. xiv. 284 There was therefore a reservation of the supreme Power in the People, notwithstanding the creation of Magistrats without Appeal.

1714 J. Swift Publick Spirit Whigs 21 These are the Opinions which Mr. St—le and his Faction..are endeavouring..to propagate..; with what Reservation to the Honour..of the Queen, I cannot determine.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 18 Whilst our government is soothed with a reservation in its favour, to which it has no claim, the security..is taken away.

1825 W. Hazlitt Spirit of Age 319 Mr. Jeffrey is profuse of his encomiums and admiration of others, but still with a certain reservation of a right to differ or to blame.

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. xii. §2 The labourers..have always done so, with the reservation of a power to tax those superfluities for purposes of public utility.

1938 A. W. Griswold Far Eastern Policy U.S. vii. 275 ‘Investigation and report’, circumscribed by the ultimate reservation of the right of independent action, was not arbitration.

1988 Asian Surv. 28 504 Japan could include a reservation in any future CBM [= confidence-building measures] arrangement with the USSR similar to that of the 1977 fishing agreement.

2001 M. Brattain Politics of Whiteness 278 The reservation of not only social privilege but also economic opportunity had historically given white workers a reason to believe they shared interests with their employers.

2. Christian Church.

a. The action, on the part of the Pope, of reserving to himself the right of nomination to a vacant benefice; the fact of this being so reserved; an instance of this. Now historical.

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society > faith > worship > benefice > advowson > [noun] > of pope: reservation to vacant benefice

reservation?a1425

reserve1725

?a1425 (a1400) Brut (Corpus Cambr.) 326 (MED) Þe King sent certeyne embassetours to þe Pope, praynge hem þat he sholde leue of and melle not in his court of þe kepyngez & reseruaciouns of benefeces in Engelond.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxv^v Bishops of Rome..by reseruations and graces expectatiue, as they name them, haue deriued all the gaine to Rome.

1613 F. Mason Of Consecration Bishops iv. xi. 180 Notwithstanding it came to passe in processe of time, that the Pope by his prouisions, reseruations, and expectatiue graces made lamentable desolation in the Church of God.

1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. ii. iii. 46 Benedict XII made a general Reserve of all the Benefices in Curia;..Innocent VI was oblig'd to revoke all the Reservations by a Bull.

1756 Catal. Principal Members Church of Ely 5 He was elected Bishop of Ely.., but failed obtaining the Bishoprick, by Papal reservation.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 493 That the prerogatives of the papal months,..reservations, and of course, annates, should be abolished.

1900 Dict. National Biogr. LXIII. 205/2 In this conference the pope agreed to give up ‘reservations’, and the king to give up conferring benefices by writ of quare impedit.

1960 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 50 14/1 The hostility in England toward the papal reservation of benefices and their collation to foreigners.

2005 L. B. Pascoe Church & Reform iii. 104 The system of papal provisions which manifested itself in terms of papal reservations and expectancies.

b. The action or fact of reserving the power of absolution, censure, etc., to a superior authority in certain cases. Cf. reserve v.¹ 1a.

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > absolution > [noun] > reservation of power of

reservation1536

reserve1725

1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes sig. Niiij ^v Wherfore oure aduersaries do iudge well, whan they do graunte, that in the article of deathe, that reseruation of cases ought not to let absolution.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 279 The papall reseruation of cases..to the pope.

1884 Catholic Dict. 717/2 The object of the reservation is to increase the shame of the penitent.

1947 A. A. King Rites Eastern Christendom I. iii. 232 The council of the Lebanon..confirmed the privileges of the patriarch in..reservation of certain sins.

1995 M. C. Mansfield Humiliation of Sinners ix. 295 Luther..delivered an attack on the system of reservation of sins to bishops or the pope.

2002 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 12 31 The papal reservation of matrimonial cases is already implied in a ‘questio’..attributed to Stephen Langton.

3. Christian Church. The action or practice of retaining or preserving a portion of the Eucharistic elements (esp. the bread) after the celebration of communion. Formerly also: †a part of the elements thus reserved (obsolete).

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > [noun] > preserving elements of

reserving1530

reservation1550

reposition1657

1550 T. Cranmer Def. Sacrament f. 77 In diuers other things he [sc. Dionysius] maketh quite and clean against them, and that specially in thre pointes, In transubstantiation, in reseruacion of the sacrament, and in the receauinge of the same by the priest alone.

1551 Gardiner in T. Cranmer Answ. Gardiner iii. 165 Justine the Martyr..testifieth a reseruacion to be sent to them that were sycke.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1650/2 Item, we will haue in our Churches, reseruation.

a1626 L. Andrewes Opuscula Quædam Posthuma (1629) ii. 6 So that Reservation needeth not; the intent is had without it.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1636) iii. 106 Their reservation of the Hoast in a Boxe: their circumportation thereof.

1735 J. Ogilvie tr. R. Menteith Hist. Troubles Great Brit. i. 17 The Reservation of the holy Sacrament is an Argument for the present Practice of the Catholicks.

1784 S. Hardy Scripture-acct. Nature & Ends Holy Eucharist vii. 348 The Reservation of the Eucharist in Churches.

1832 W. Palmer Origines Liturg. II. viii. 229 It is true, that this reservation has been the most usual, and, perhaps, the most ancient, practice of the Church.

1862 Union 11 Apr. 226 Another sufficient reason for reservation would be an improved liturgical arrangement for Good Friday.

1922 Mod. Lang. Notes 37 369 He noted that there was little special pomp in early times connected with the reservation of the presanctified Host.

1999 N. Yates Anglican Ritualism in Victorian Brit. vi. 328 The archbishops' ruling against permanent reservation..had led to a rather secretive approach to reservation on the part of both clergy and laity.

†4. The action or fact of preserving something; preservation. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation from decay, loss, or destruction

conservationa1398

conserving1413

reservationa1555

conservancy1613

a1555 J. Bradford Two Notable Serm. (1574) sig. Kviii^v The buddyng of Aarons rod dyd sygnifye Aarons Priesthood alowed of the Lord: the reseruation of Moses rod dyd signifye the rebellion of the children of Israel.

a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) xxx. 93 This commemoration of Saints, and Martyrs, did breed and bring forth reservation of their Reliques.

1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices Pref. It was the vanity of Democritus to promise the reservation of the bodyes of men.

†5.

a. The action or fact of keeping back a matter for subsequent consideration or action. Obsolete.

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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > asked for or granted

fristc1175

respitec1300

sojourningc1400

respetta1450

reprievala1586

reservation1590

short shrift1815

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes vii. f. 260 Where the testator..reserueth somewhat to be done at another time,..euen by the ciuill law in this case the testament is perfect, notwithstanding such reseruations.

1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed vii. 595 Which..signifieth a reservation of his sin unto the judgment of the world to come.

b. The action or fact of keeping back something from others or for one's own use. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > retaining > [noun]

holding?c1225

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retainder1467

retinue1489

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retainal1754

reserval1829

1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange H 2 b My aduise in the reseruation of those Letters, Which I will haue you hide from eie of day.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 223 He wil'd me In heedefull'st reseruation to bestow them.

1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xviii O God, thou distillest thy Graces upon us, not for our reservation, but conueyance.

1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 126 That in the distribution of our goods, we should expect his blessing, not in their intirenesse, and reservation.

a. A limitation, exception, or qualification made (explicitly or tacitly) with regard to something; the action or an act of making an exception of this kind.See also mental reservation n. at mental adj.¹ and n. Compounds.

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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > reservation, proviso

conditionc1315

preveance?1316

purview1442

proviso1443

provision1450

saving1478

forprise1530

cautel1541

caveat1579

postulate1588

cautiona1593

non obstante1604

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reservancy1630

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stipulation1792

reserver1807

get-out clause1912

clausula rebus sic stantibus1939

escape clause1945

1606 W. Warner Albions Eng. xv. xcv. 380 Tongues-Othes, Harts-Thoughts, Disiunctiues, by a Mental reseruation.

1612 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1816) IV. 472/1 With ane expres reservatioun nottheles of all decrets..obteyned be ony persoun whatsumeuir before the dait of thir presents.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. i. §7. 227 Such fables argue that Iosephus is not to be belieued, but with discreete reseruations.

1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue 525 The same school hath admitted tacite interpretations and reservations.

1713 R. Steele in Guardian 16 May 2/1 The Father's close Equivocal Management, so as always to keep a Reservation to use upon Occasion, when he found himself prest.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlix. 161 Frederic subscribed, with some reservations, the freedom of four-and-twenty cities.

1794 Bloomfield Rep. 30 A Bill of Sale, without any Condition or Reservation, was drawn up.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 157 With this highly important reservation, it had been resolved to set up in England a hierarchy closely resembling that which now exists in Scotland.

1891 J. A. Froude Divorce Catherine of Aragon xviii. 326 The Abbots and Priors had sworn to the supremacy, but..with secret reservations to save their consciences.

1939 Country Life 11 Feb. 147/1 With a few minor reservations, this [play] may be recommended as vintage Coward.

1960 L. Gilkes Cora Crane 47 H. G. Wells..remained to the end of his life a rather muddled advocate of free love despite occasional reservations and recantations.

2001 L. Wolff Venice & Slavs 244 The Viaggio in Dalmazia had to be read with the reservation that its author was the gullible victim of his snickering informants.

b. The action or fact of giving only limited, qualified, or provisional support to a belief, principle, etc.; limitation or qualification of one's support, belief, acceptance, etc., of something. Also as count noun (frequently in plural): a feeling of uncertainty as to the correctness of a statement, the advisability of a proposed course of action, etc.; a doubt, a misgiving.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [noun] > a doubt, scruple

were1338

doubtc1374

incertainty1483

scruple1534

dubitation1545

scrupulosity?a1562

irresolution1592

suspense1594

non liquet1656

nicety1694

reservation1719

hows and whys1726

dubiety1807

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [noun]

ortrowthc1175

ortrowa1200

untrust?c1225

suspicion1303

suspectiona1340

mistrowa1375

overtrowa1375

misfaitha1382

jealousyc1385

suspectc1386

misdoubtingc1390

untrist1390

mistrowinga1393

mistrusta1393

mistrista1400

supposinga1400

untrestc1400

wantrustc1405

diffidencea1425

misdeemingc1450

untrustingc1450

discredence?a1475

surmise1509

suspensea1513

diffidency1537

distrust1548

distrusting1549

misdoubt1558

discredit1567

misgiving1582

scruple1597

disconfidence1620

inconfidence1627

disaffiance1631

non-fiance1643

defiance1662

suspiciencya1690

reservation1719

disfaith1870

méfiance1876

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > instance of

conditionc1380

protestationc1390

butc1405

restrictiona1450

limitationc1475

if1532

conditionary1678

reservation1719

whereas1795

yes but1870

string1888

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 75 Dearest believe without a Reservation.

1834 Monthly Rev. Jan. 120 The present author is of opinion that the recommendation of Pisa, as a residence for patients labouring under consumption, ought to be adopted with some considerable reservations.

1885 Times 26 Aug. 5/4 Their protestation is no doubt sincere, but public opinion may have reservations on the subject of all these protestations.

1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 121 I had some reservations as to how far we could trust him.

1972 P. Bowles Let. 5 June in In Touch (1994) 443 I said what I said..only because you had been frank about your reservations about my book.

2002 Jrnl. Pediatric Psychol. 27 635/1 During my postdoctoral work, I had developed some serious reservations about normalization as the ultimate goal for people with developmental handicaps.

†7. The action of keeping back or concealing something from others; something thus kept back or concealed; a secret; a deceptive answer or excuse. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret

derna1000

counsel1377

secrec1386

dernheada1400

secretnessc1425

secrecyc1450

secret1450

concealment1598

reservation1612

cabal1631

recess1646

occult1648

reserve1680

state secret1822

reserving1844

inédit1910

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun]

censorship1591

suppressing1591

reservation1612

suppression1628

no names, no pack drill1903

blackout1941

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [noun] > double-dealing, duplicity > in speech

twispechea950

double-tonguec1386

syllogism1387

reservation1612

ploda1903

1612 R. Naunton in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 113 His Majesty's reservations having too many occasions in this undermining age of the world.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 243 I most vnfainedly beseech your Lordshippe to make some reseruation of your wrongs.

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. iii, in Wks. I. 36 He will not sweare, he has some reseruation, Some conceal'd purpose, and close meaning, sure.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. xxi. 29 The French is..not so full of scruples, reservations, and jealousies, as the Spaniard, but deals more frankly, and with a greater confidence and gallantry.

8. Reservedness in discourse or manner; = reserve n. 6. Now rare.Earliest in †reservation of state.

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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun]

stillnessc1050

silencea1225

seld-speech?c1225

taciturnityc1450

retreata1533

mum1555

silentness1573

reticence1603

reticencya1617

reservation1619

parciloquy1656

reserve1659

costiveness1792

incommunicativeness1815

mutism1824

incommunicableness1835

ineloquence1843

incommunicability1855

unspeaking1860

mumchanceness1910

mumchanciness1920

1619 J. Harrison Short Relation Departure Prince Frederick sig. Aiij^v So milde courteous, and affable (yet with a princelie reservation of state well beseeming so great a maiestie).

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. §12. 40 His disciples wondred to see him alone talk with a woman, besides his custome, and usuall reservation.

1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion ii. 37 You could feign Chastity and Reservation to intrap me.

1714 A. Collins Peerage Eng. (ed. 3) I. 401 He was a Man of much Plainess [sic] and Sincerity, of great Reservation in his Temper.

1736 Universal Spectator II. 215 The Company..were Men of Parts and Probity, but of great Modesty and Reservation to all out of their own Pale.

1861 H. Keddie My Heart's in Highlands xvi. 301 She addressed Mary eagerly, and without any prudent or polite reservation: ‘You're welcome to Finralia, Mary Aldour.’

1880 D. C. Murray Life's Atonement II. iv. 73 Somehow, there was a reservation in her manner..as if she desired to say something and yet would not say it.

1962 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 29 June 4/4 They..watched with polite reservation and distance as Paar emerged from the basement half an hour later.

2005 T. Patel Family in India 195 Even when the students continue to talk with some reservation with their elders, their feeling is that their relations with their elders are cordial.

9. Originally U.S. Cf. reserve n. 5b.

a. Any area of land reserved for a special purpose, e.g. for military use, for forestry, for the protection of wildlife, etc.Frequently with preceding modifying word: see military reservation n. at military adj. and n. Compounds 2.

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1789 Deb. Congr. U.S. 25 May (1834) 41 The reservation,..of six miles square round the fort at Oswego, is within the territory of the State of New York.

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd II. iv. xii. 100 Without touching the reservation round Judiville.

1898 Forest & Stream 22 Jan. 1/3 Whether a game reservation be a national or a State institution matters not, so that it shall be a refuge and efficiently protected.

1939 L. E. Blauch & W. L. Iversen Educ. Children Federal Reservations (U.S. Govt. Advisory Comm. on Educ.) No. 17. 30 Of these 23,061 children, 12,957 resided on military reservations, 3,030 on naval stations, 1,092 on reservations under the control of the Veterans' Administration, and 1,123 on lighthouse stations and Federal prison reservations.

1980 Geogr. Rev. 70 227 This island is a class ‘A’ nature reservation in which all permanent interference with flora and fauna is prohibited.

2009 I. M. Khokhutkin et al. in L. M. De Smet Focus on Urbanization Trends v. 148 As a control we have studied 8 water bodies located in anthropogenically undisturbed territories: the Sulem River and the Sulemskoye reservoir in the Visimsky Nature Reservation (the Middle Urals), [etc.].

b. spec. (North American) An area of land set apart or reserved by the government for occupation by North American Indians, esp. by those of a particular tribe or nation.Frequently with preceding modifying word: see Indian reservation n. at Indian adj. and n. Compounds 1b(a).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > reservation for indigenous people

reserve1667

Indian reserve1752

reservation1792

Indian reservation1804

station1825

location1833

native reserve1842

native location1866

res1880

native location1928

township1934

homeland1959

1792 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1806) 1st Ser. I. 287 The whole Six Nations live on grounds, called the State Reservations, and are intermediate spaces settled on both sides by white people.

1859 J. S. Helmcken Let. 25 Jan. in Archives Brit. Columbia. Memoir No. IV (1918) 45 Has the Government of this Island [sc. Vancouver Island] the power to remove the Indians (by purchase) from that piece of land inside Victoria Harbour known as the Indian Reservation?

1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. ii. xxxv. 148 In my boyhood days on the reservation many games were played.

1971 D. Heffron Nice Fire & Some Moonpennies ii. 18 He told me to remember that when you're off the Reservation, people take you not as an individual but as an Indian.

2005 Smithsonian Dec. 22/1 [They] treed a second jaguar near the reservation of the Tohono O'odham Nation.

10. Originally U.S. An act of engaging a seat, room, place, ticket, vehicle, etc., in advance; an engagement secured in this way; a booking.seat reservation: see seat n. Compounds 1a.

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society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > other types of written record

criminal record1687

police record1773

office copy1776

geological record1811

time card1837

phylactery1855

reservation1884

press cutting1888

record1897

trace1898

swindle sheet1906

form sheet1911

Dead Sea Scrolls1949

yellow card1970

1884 Washington Post 30 Nov. 2/4 For tickets and information as to routes, sleeping-car reservations, &c., apply to ticket office, Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue.

1907 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 19 Dec. 16 A considerable number of New York and Boston people have made reservations at the Curtis hotel in Lenox for the holiday season.

1935 R. Macaulay Personal Pleasures 18 Do tickets, passports, money, travellers' cheques, packing, reservations, boat trains, inns, crouch and snarl before you like those surly dragons that guard enchanted lands?

1949 Skyline Trail (Montreal) Mar. 14/2 It is most important that hikers procure their hotel reservations well in advance.

2003 Philadelphia May 94/1 An anonymous-looking building where as many as 300 people toil, making reservations and handling customer-service calls.

11. Originally U.S. Usually more fully as central reservation. A strip of ground which divides the carriageways of a road (in later use usually a motorway or dual carriageway). Cf. reserve n. 5e. Now chiefly British.The more usual term in North America and elsewhere is median strip.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > dual carriageway > central reservation

reservation1887

reserve1923

median1944

1887 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 16 Dec. 8/4 Greenleaf place, an avenue 80 feet wide with a 20-foot reservation in the center, bordered by ancient elm, sycamore, maple and oak trees.

1896 29th Ann. Rep. City Engin. Boston 130 The sidewalk will have a loamed space 5 feet in width next the roadway, and the central reservation will be loamed and grassed.

1934 Times 5 Dec. 11/4 The two new roads were put in hand before the desirability of dividing carriage-ways by central reservations became prominent.

1959 Highway Code 16 Do not reverse or turn in the carriageway or cross the central reservation.

1973 J. G. Ballard Crash ii. 19 Out of my control, the car crossed the reservation and turned up the high-speed exit ramp.

1994 Daily Tel. 6 Sept. 3/3 It hit a crash barrier in the central reservation of the dual carriageway and span over the top and into the path of a lorry.

12. Exemption from military service on grounds of having an important civilian occupation; the fact of being eligible for such exemption. Also (occasionally):= reservation age n. at Compounds 2. Cf. reserve v.¹ 5d. Now historical.

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society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > discharge from service > [noun] > exemption from service

reservation1916

1916 List of Certified Occupations (Local Government Board) 4 The only ground for making these reservations is that the men protected are engaged on work of national importance.

1939 Times 22 Sept. 10/5 The age of reservation for the whole-time official..of an employers' organization or a trade union has been reduced to 25. The reservation for the pot-maker..has been reduced to 21.

1941 Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Sept. 194 The test of reservation should be the work a man is actually doing, not his declared occupation.

1998 P. Summerfield Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives iv. 118 Although done in the name of the national war effort, the process of ‘reservation’ was relatively obscure to those affected.

Phrases

P1. without reservation: without limitation, qualification, or restriction of any kind; completely, utterly; (also) without restraint, freely, frankly.

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1616 S. Page 9 Serm. 61 There bee some that offer all to God without reseruation, all that they haue, whatsoeuer, is in their life, or in their knowledge.

1674 J. Howe Treat. Delighting in God ii. 294 So as that you truly take him for your God,..giving up your self absolutely and without reservation to him as his.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. x. 51 Persons of all conditions repaired to his Majesty of those who had serv'd him; with whom he conferr'd without reservation.

1770 F. Gentleman Dramatic Censor I. 50 The queen..imputes it [sc. Ophelia's death], without reservation, to an accident.

1811 Antijacobin Rev. Nov. 243 To speak without reservation, we have had our being in a time..when the tenets of an infamous school..have been uniformly directed to the degradation of virtue.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 11 The lay lords replied without reservation that they would support the crown.

1893 in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 534 Socially, we unite whole-heartedly and without reservation with our non-Jewish fellow-citizens.

1936 S. A. Waksman Humus iii. 62 One may..feel justified in abandoning without reservation the whole nomenclature of ‘humic acids’.

1990 J. Halperin Novelists in their Youth i. 40 At the time Perry was the only human being he could speak and write to without reservation.

2007 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 8 Nov. 9 Something good made in England: a film about America which I can recommend without reservation.

P2. U.S. to go off the reservation and variants: to deviate from what is expected or customary; to behave unexpectedly or independently. Hence also on (also on to) the reservation.With allusion to sense 9.

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1898 F. Remington in Harper's Mag. Nov. 962/2 The fires of hatred burned within me. I was nearly overcome by a desire to ‘go off the reservation’. I wanted to damn some official, or all officialism.

1926 Washington Post 6 Jan. 17/7 Art Nehf..is a lefthander but a trusty. Mr. Nehf never goes off the reservation.

1937 S. High Roosevelt—& Then? viii. 187 It was no simple matter to keep Lewis on the reservation... He all but packed his bags for a trip into political seclusion.

1960 H. S. Truman Let. 31 Jan. in Strictly Personal & Confidential (1982) 137 I'll never forget 1948 when these so called ‘liberals’..went off the reservation and gave New York to Dewey.

1992 Spy (N.Y.) Oct. 16/3 When he's off the NBC reservation, Letterman's shenanigans are relatively good-natured.

2006 N.Y. Mag. 4 Dec. 24/2 [The] chairman doesn't need to pull his mad-as-hell economic nationalist of an anchorman back onto the reservation.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. In sense 9, esp. in reservation Indian.

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1857 J. W. Francis N.Y. during Last Half-cent. 97 Dow..held forth in an adjacent wood, having for his audience some of the Oneida and Reservation Indians.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Oct. 7/1 It is acknowledged on all sides..that the reservation policy is a failure.

1903 G. W. James Indian Basketry (ed. 3) v. 59 I found..three sub-tribal names not mentioned by Powers, one of which, the Nu-cha-a-wai-i, is the branch of the Yokuts to which the major portion of the reservation Indians claim they belong.

1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 260 Eighty of them came to their agency and enrolled with the reservation Indians.

1991 I. Sinclair Downriver xi. 327 He had the bronze skin of a reservation Apache.

2001 H. Gilbert Postcolonial Plays 390/1 Highway's earthy comedy about the lives of seven reservation women entered the mainstream in spectacular style.

b. In sense 10, as reservation clerk, reservation desk, etc. Also in plural.

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1924 Indiana (Pa.) Weekly Messenger 25 Dec. 3/3 ‘One of the amazing things to me,’ remarked a reservation clerk in a hotel, ‘is the number of chorus girls who carry dogs.’

1949 G. Waldron Information Film 19 Films whose sole purpose is to make switchboard operators and reservation clerks aware of the importance of their jobs and of doing them well.

1955 Sci. News Let. 5 Feb. 82/3 When the reservations agent receives a telephone query,..all he does is press a set of buttons.

1977 E. Leonard Unknown Man No. 89 xx. 207 Ryan kept going,..past the reservation desk to the foyer.

1991 J. Gavin Intimate Nights vii. 213 One winter night actor Jim Sheridan..stood downstairs by the reservation desk while the show was in progress.

2008 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 7 Aug. 5 Bookings can be made by calling the airline's reservations number.

C2.

reservation age n. now historical the minimum age normally required for a person to be granted reservation from military service.

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1939 Winnipeg Free Press 24 Jan. 7/2 The aircraft industry has no reservation age so every man in it will be in the ‘dungaree army’ in wartime.

1942 Times 24 June 2/2 A limited number of men [in the building trade] below the existing reservation age of 30 will be called up within the next few weeks.

1998 Jrnl. Contemp. Hist. 33 10 From the beginning, employers could ask for deferments for individuals who were in a listed occupation but below the reservation age.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	reservation
释义	reservationn. Brit. /ˌrɛzəˈveɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrɛzərˈveɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English reseruacioun, Middle English reseruacoun, Middle English–1500s reseruacion, 1500s reseruacyon, 1500s–1600s reseruation, 1500s– reservation; Scottish pre-1700 reseruation, pre-1700 reseruatioun, pre-1700 reservacione, pre-1700 reservacioun, pre-1700 reservatione, pre-1700 reservatioun, pre-1700 reservatioune, pre-1700 1700s– reservation. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French reservation; Latin reservation-, reservatio. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman reservacion, Anglo-Norman and Middle French reservation holding back (14th cent. in Anglo-Norman), prerogative, right reserved to someone, action of reserving a right (c1350, especially with reference to nomination to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice), (in law) retention of rights (after a transfer of property, etc.) (a1369 in Anglo-Norman), clause which modifies and limits a contract (1393), restriction (in a pardon) (end of the 14th cent.) and its etymon post-classical Latin reservation-, reservatio preservation, conservation (4th cent.), action or fact of reserving or retaining for oneself some right or interest in property which is being conveyed to another (6th cent.), action, on the part of the Pope, of reserving to himself the right of nomination to a vacant benefice (frequently from mid 13th cent. in British sources), action of keeping back (from 13th cent. in British sources), mental limitation or qualification made with regard to something (from 14th cent. in British sources, especially with mentalis ) < classical Latin reservāt- , past participial stem of reservāre reserve v.¹ + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish reservación (15th cent., now rare), Italian riservazione (14th cent.). Compare reserve n. 1. a. Chiefly Law. The action or fact of reserving or retaining for oneself some right or interest in property, esp. in property which is being conveyed, rented, etc., to another; an instance of this; a right or interest retained in this way; the clause or part of a deed by which something is thus reserved.Originally spec. with reference to the reserving of tithes. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > [noun] > retention of interest in property transferred reservationc1400 society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > church dues > tithe > reserving as tithe reservationc1400 c1400 Last Age of Church (1840) p. xxiii (MED) Þei [sc. priests] make reseruaciouns þe whiche ben clepid dymes, ffirst fruytis, oþer penciouns. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 76 (MED) Wat trow we þis seynt [sc. Augustine] to cry þis day..aȝennis þe multitude of lawis of þe kirk incorporat and extriuagaunt..aȝen reseruacouns, aȝen furst frutis, and oþer spolingis of goodis of þe kirk. 1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 §8. m. 4 That..all other actes..be as to the seid fee ferme onely,..except þe seid reservacioun of .xviij.li. .v.s., void and adnulled. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxii. f. lv If a man make a feffement & reserue the profytes..that reseruacyon ys voyde in the lawe. 1564 tr. M. Flacius Illyricus Godly Admon. Decrees Counsel of Trent 108 Those [churches]..may neuer henceforth be burdened with pensions or reseruations of fruits aboue the halfe. 1629 Vse of Law 36 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light He reserued some retribution of rents or seruices or both, to him and to his heires; which reseruation is that, which is called the tenure of Land. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. v. §431. 186 When shee had the third part of the land, out of which the reservation was made, it is reason that she should be attendant for..the rent that was reserved. 1699 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1761) II. 33 The muir was divided..with an express reservation of the coal to the Lord Liviston. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 290 The reddendum or reservation, whereby the grantor doth create or reserve some new thing to himself out of what he had before granted. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. v. 39 When a landed estate, therefore, is sold with a reservation of a perpetual rent [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. IV. 317 The reservation was in the same terms with the power, and, consequently, was pursuant to it. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 295 A reservation was made of a royalty of 20% on all silver produced. 1933 Times 10 Jan. 6/1 Estates valued at £17,306 per annum were sold for no more than £24,579, with a reservation of perpetual rents amounting to £2,057 per annum. 1940 Virginia Law Rev. 27 225 Inter vivos transfer of property in trust, with reservation to the grantor of the power to change, alter or revoke in event he should marry. 1998 Independent (Nexis) 19 Dec. Until now, the Inland Revenue has barred this practice by treating such transfers as gifts with reservation of benefit, which could be ignored when the giver dies. b. The action or fact of reserving (for oneself or another) a right, entitlement, privilege, etc.; a right, etc., reserved in this way. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > [noun] > reserving for oneself or another reservance1550 reservation1608 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 411 I gave you all..But kept a reseruation to be followed With such a number. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 429 His estate onely is liable..and yet with reseruation of such necessarie things, as Honestie, Honour, Humanitie, and Christianitie doth challenge. a1683 A. Sidney Disc. Govt. (1704) iii. xiv. 284 There was therefore a reservation of the supreme Power in the People, notwithstanding the creation of Magistrats without Appeal. 1714 J. Swift Publick Spirit Whigs 21 These are the Opinions which Mr. St—le and his Faction..are endeavouring..to propagate..; with what Reservation to the Honour..of the Queen, I cannot determine. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 18 Whilst our government is soothed with a reservation in its favour, to which it has no claim, the security..is taken away. View more context for this quotation 1825 W. Hazlitt Spirit of Age 319 Mr. Jeffrey is profuse of his encomiums and admiration of others, but still with a certain reservation of a right to differ or to blame. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. xii. §2 The labourers..have always done so, with the reservation of a power to tax those superfluities for purposes of public utility. 1938 A. W. Griswold Far Eastern Policy U.S. vii. 275 ‘Investigation and report’, circumscribed by the ultimate reservation of the right of independent action, was not arbitration. 1988 Asian Surv. 28 504 Japan could include a reservation in any future CBM [= confidence-building measures] arrangement with the USSR similar to that of the 1977 fishing agreement. 2001 M. Brattain Politics of Whiteness 278 The reservation of not only social privilege but also economic opportunity had historically given white workers a reason to believe they shared interests with their employers. 2. Christian Church. a. The action, on the part of the Pope, of reserving to himself the right of nomination to a vacant benefice; the fact of this being so reserved; an instance of this. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > advowson > [noun] > of pope: reservation to vacant benefice reservation?a1425 reserve1725 ?a1425 (a1400) Brut (Corpus Cambr.) 326 (MED) Þe King sent certeyne embassetours to þe Pope, praynge hem þat he sholde leue of and melle not in his court of þe kepyngez & reseruaciouns of benefeces in Engelond. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxv^v Bishops of Rome..by reseruations and graces expectatiue, as they name them, haue deriued all the gaine to Rome. 1613 F. Mason Of Consecration Bishops iv. xi. 180 Notwithstanding it came to passe in processe of time, that the Pope by his prouisions, reseruations, and expectatiue graces made lamentable desolation in the Church of God. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. ii. iii. 46 Benedict XII made a general Reserve of all the Benefices in Curia;..Innocent VI was oblig'd to revoke all the Reservations by a Bull. 1756 Catal. Principal Members Church of Ely 5 He was elected Bishop of Ely.., but failed obtaining the Bishoprick, by Papal reservation. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 493 That the prerogatives of the papal months,..reservations, and of course, annates, should be abolished. 1900 Dict. National Biogr. LXIII. 205/2 In this conference the pope agreed to give up ‘reservations’, and the king to give up conferring benefices by writ of quare impedit. 1960 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 50 14/1 The hostility in England toward the papal reservation of benefices and their collation to foreigners. 2005 L. B. Pascoe Church & Reform iii. 104 The system of papal provisions which manifested itself in terms of papal reservations and expectancies. b. The action or fact of reserving the power of absolution, censure, etc., to a superior authority in certain cases. Cf. reserve v.¹ 1a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > absolution > [noun] > reservation of power of reservation1536 reserve1725 1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes sig. Niiij ^v Wherfore oure aduersaries do iudge well, whan they do graunte, that in the article of deathe, that reseruation of cases ought not to let absolution. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 279 The papall reseruation of cases..to the pope. 1884 Catholic Dict. 717/2 The object of the reservation is to increase the shame of the penitent. 1947 A. A. King Rites Eastern Christendom I. iii. 232 The council of the Lebanon..confirmed the privileges of the patriarch in..reservation of certain sins. 1995 M. C. Mansfield Humiliation of Sinners ix. 295 Luther..delivered an attack on the system of reservation of sins to bishops or the pope. 2002 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 12 31 The papal reservation of matrimonial cases is already implied in a ‘questio’..attributed to Stephen Langton. 3. Christian Church. The action or practice of retaining or preserving a portion of the Eucharistic elements (esp. the bread) after the celebration of communion. Formerly also: †a part of the elements thus reserved (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > [noun] > preserving elements of reserving1530 reservation1550 reposition1657 1550 T. Cranmer Def. Sacrament f. 77 In diuers other things he [sc. Dionysius] maketh quite and clean against them, and that specially in thre pointes, In transubstantiation, in reseruacion of the sacrament, and in the receauinge of the same by the priest alone. 1551 Gardiner in T. Cranmer Answ. Gardiner iii. 165 Justine the Martyr..testifieth a reseruacion to be sent to them that were sycke. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1650/2 Item, we will haue in our Churches, reseruation. a1626 L. Andrewes Opuscula Quædam Posthuma (1629) ii. 6 So that Reservation needeth not; the intent is had without it. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1636) iii. 106 Their reservation of the Hoast in a Boxe: their circumportation thereof. 1735 J. Ogilvie tr. R. Menteith Hist. Troubles Great Brit. i. 17 The Reservation of the holy Sacrament is an Argument for the present Practice of the Catholicks. 1784 S. Hardy Scripture-acct. Nature & Ends Holy Eucharist vii. 348 The Reservation of the Eucharist in Churches. 1832 W. Palmer Origines Liturg. II. viii. 229 It is true, that this reservation has been the most usual, and, perhaps, the most ancient, practice of the Church. 1862 Union 11 Apr. 226 Another sufficient reason for reservation would be an improved liturgical arrangement for Good Friday. 1922 Mod. Lang. Notes 37 369 He noted that there was little special pomp in early times connected with the reservation of the presanctified Host. 1999 N. Yates Anglican Ritualism in Victorian Brit. vi. 328 The archbishops' ruling against permanent reservation..had led to a rather secretive approach to reservation on the part of both clergy and laity. †4. The action or fact of preserving something; preservation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation from decay, loss, or destruction conservationa1398 conserving1413 reservationa1555 conservancy1613 a1555 J. Bradford Two Notable Serm. (1574) sig. Kviii^v The buddyng of Aarons rod dyd sygnifye Aarons Priesthood alowed of the Lord: the reseruation of Moses rod dyd signifye the rebellion of the children of Israel. a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) xxx. 93 This commemoration of Saints, and Martyrs, did breed and bring forth reservation of their Reliques. 1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices Pref. It was the vanity of Democritus to promise the reservation of the bodyes of men. †5. a. The action or fact of keeping back a matter for subsequent consideration or action. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > asked for or granted fristc1175 respitec1300 sojourningc1400 respetta1450 reprievala1586 reservation1590 short shrift1815 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes vii. f. 260 Where the testator..reserueth somewhat to be done at another time,..euen by the ciuill law in this case the testament is perfect, notwithstanding such reseruations. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed vii. 595 Which..signifieth a reservation of his sin unto the judgment of the world to come. b. The action or fact of keeping back something from others or for one's own use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > [noun] holding?c1225 keepingc1400 retainment1449 retainer1453 retain1455 retainingc1460 retainder1467 retinue1489 retentivea1500 retention1540 reservation1607 retainal1754 reserval1829 1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange H 2 b My aduise in the reseruation of those Letters, Which I will haue you hide from eie of day. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 223 He wil'd me In heedefull'st reseruation to bestow them. View more context for this quotation 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xviii O God, thou distillest thy Graces upon us, not for our reservation, but conueyance. 1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 126 That in the distribution of our goods, we should expect his blessing, not in their intirenesse, and reservation. 6. a. A limitation, exception, or qualification made (explicitly or tacitly) with regard to something; the action or an act of making an exception of this kind.See also mental reservation n. at mental adj.¹ and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > reservation, proviso conditionc1315 preveance?1316 purview1442 proviso1443 provision1450 saving1478 forprise1530 cautel1541 caveat1579 postulate1588 cautiona1593 non obstante1604 reservation1606 unless1606 reservancy1630 salvo1642 reserve1644 stipulation1792 reserver1807 get-out clause1912 clausula rebus sic stantibus1939 escape clause1945 1606 W. Warner Albions Eng. xv. xcv. 380 Tongues-Othes, Harts-Thoughts, Disiunctiues, by a Mental reseruation. 1612 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1816) IV. 472/1 With ane expres reservatioun nottheles of all decrets..obteyned be ony persoun whatsumeuir before the dait of thir presents. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. i. §7. 227 Such fables argue that Iosephus is not to be belieued, but with discreete reseruations. 1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue 525 The same school hath admitted tacite interpretations and reservations. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 16 May 2/1 The Father's close Equivocal Management, so as always to keep a Reservation to use upon Occasion, when he found himself prest. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlix. 161 Frederic subscribed, with some reservations, the freedom of four-and-twenty cities. 1794 Bloomfield Rep. 30 A Bill of Sale, without any Condition or Reservation, was drawn up. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 157 With this highly important reservation, it had been resolved to set up in England a hierarchy closely resembling that which now exists in Scotland. 1891 J. A. Froude Divorce Catherine of Aragon xviii. 326 The Abbots and Priors had sworn to the supremacy, but..with secret reservations to save their consciences. 1939 Country Life 11 Feb. 147/1 With a few minor reservations, this [play] may be recommended as vintage Coward. 1960 L. Gilkes Cora Crane 47 H. G. Wells..remained to the end of his life a rather muddled advocate of free love despite occasional reservations and recantations. 2001 L. Wolff Venice & Slavs 244 The Viaggio in Dalmazia had to be read with the reservation that its author was the gullible victim of his snickering informants. b. The action or fact of giving only limited, qualified, or provisional support to a belief, principle, etc.; limitation or qualification of one's support, belief, acceptance, etc., of something. Also as count noun (frequently in plural): a feeling of uncertainty as to the correctness of a statement, the advisability of a proposed course of action, etc.; a doubt, a misgiving. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [noun] > a doubt, scruple were1338 doubtc1374 incertainty1483 scruple1534 dubitation1545 scrupulosity?a1562 irresolution1592 suspense1594 non liquet1656 nicety1694 reservation1719 hows and whys1726 dubiety1807 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [noun] ortrowthc1175 ortrowa1200 untrust?c1225 suspicion1303 suspectiona1340 mistrowa1375 overtrowa1375 misfaitha1382 jealousyc1385 suspectc1386 misdoubtingc1390 untrist1390 mistrowinga1393 mistrusta1393 mistrista1400 supposinga1400 untrestc1400 wantrustc1405 diffidencea1425 misdeemingc1450 untrustingc1450 discredence?a1475 surmise1509 suspensea1513 diffidency1537 distrust1548 distrusting1549 misdoubt1558 discredit1567 misgiving1582 scruple1597 disconfidence1620 inconfidence1627 disaffiance1631 non-fiance1643 defiance1662 suspiciencya1690 reservation1719 disfaith1870 méfiance1876 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > instance of conditionc1380 protestationc1390 butc1405 restrictiona1450 limitationc1475 if1532 conditionary1678 reservation1719 whereas1795 yes but1870 string1888 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 75 Dearest believe without a Reservation. 1834 Monthly Rev. Jan. 120 The present author is of opinion that the recommendation of Pisa, as a residence for patients labouring under consumption, ought to be adopted with some considerable reservations. 1885 Times 26 Aug. 5/4 Their protestation is no doubt sincere, but public opinion may have reservations on the subject of all these protestations. 1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 121 I had some reservations as to how far we could trust him. 1972 P. Bowles Let. 5 June in In Touch (1994) 443 I said what I said..only because you had been frank about your reservations about my book. 2002 Jrnl. Pediatric Psychol. 27 635/1 During my postdoctoral work, I had developed some serious reservations about normalization as the ultimate goal for people with developmental handicaps. †7. The action of keeping back or concealing something from others; something thus kept back or concealed; a secret; a deceptive answer or excuse. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret derna1000 counsel1377 secrec1386 dernheada1400 secretnessc1425 secrecyc1450 secret1450 concealment1598 reservation1612 cabal1631 recess1646 occult1648 reserve1680 state secret1822 reserving1844 inédit1910 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun] censorship1591 suppressing1591 reservation1612 suppression1628 no names, no pack drill1903 blackout1941 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [noun] > double-dealing, duplicity > in speech twispechea950 double-tonguec1386 syllogism1387 reservation1612 ploda1903 1612 R. Naunton in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 113 His Majesty's reservations having too many occasions in this undermining age of the world. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 243 I most vnfainedly beseech your Lordshippe to make some reseruation of your wrongs. View more context for this quotation 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. iii, in Wks. I. 36 He will not sweare, he has some reseruation, Some conceal'd purpose, and close meaning, sure. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. xxi. 29 The French is..not so full of scruples, reservations, and jealousies, as the Spaniard, but deals more frankly, and with a greater confidence and gallantry. 8. Reservedness in discourse or manner; = reserve n. 6. Now rare.Earliest in †reservation of state. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] stillnessc1050 silencea1225 seld-speech?c1225 taciturnityc1450 retreata1533 mum1555 silentness1573 reticence1603 reticencya1617 reservation1619 parciloquy1656 reserve1659 costiveness1792 incommunicativeness1815 mutism1824 incommunicableness1835 ineloquence1843 incommunicability1855 unspeaking1860 mumchanceness1910 mumchanciness1920 1619 J. Harrison Short Relation Departure Prince Frederick sig. Aiij^v So milde courteous, and affable (yet with a princelie reservation of state well beseeming so great a maiestie). 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. §12. 40 His disciples wondred to see him alone talk with a woman, besides his custome, and usuall reservation. 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion ii. 37 You could feign Chastity and Reservation to intrap me. 1714 A. Collins Peerage Eng. (ed. 3) I. 401 He was a Man of much Plainess [sic] and Sincerity, of great Reservation in his Temper. 1736 Universal Spectator II. 215 The Company..were Men of Parts and Probity, but of great Modesty and Reservation to all out of their own Pale. 1861 H. Keddie My Heart's in Highlands xvi. 301 She addressed Mary eagerly, and without any prudent or polite reservation: ‘You're welcome to Finralia, Mary Aldour.’ 1880 D. C. Murray Life's Atonement II. iv. 73 Somehow, there was a reservation in her manner..as if she desired to say something and yet would not say it. 1962 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 29 June 4/4 They..watched with polite reservation and distance as Paar emerged from the basement half an hour later. 2005 T. Patel Family in India 195 Even when the students continue to talk with some reservation with their elders, their feeling is that their relations with their elders are cordial. 9. Originally U.S. Cf. reserve n. 5b. a. Any area of land reserved for a special purpose, e.g. for military use, for forestry, for the protection of wildlife, etc.Frequently with preceding modifying word: see military reservation n. at military adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1789 Deb. Congr. U.S. 25 May (1834) 41 The reservation,..of six miles square round the fort at Oswego, is within the territory of the State of New York. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd II. iv. xii. 100 Without touching the reservation round Judiville. 1898 Forest & Stream 22 Jan. 1/3 Whether a game reservation be a national or a State institution matters not, so that it shall be a refuge and efficiently protected. 1939 L. E. Blauch & W. L. Iversen Educ. Children Federal Reservations (U.S. Govt. Advisory Comm. on Educ.) No. 17. 30 Of these 23,061 children, 12,957 resided on military reservations, 3,030 on naval stations, 1,092 on reservations under the control of the Veterans' Administration, and 1,123 on lighthouse stations and Federal prison reservations. 1980 Geogr. Rev. 70 227 This island is a class ‘A’ nature reservation in which all permanent interference with flora and fauna is prohibited. 2009 I. M. Khokhutkin et al. in L. M. De Smet Focus on Urbanization Trends v. 148 As a control we have studied 8 water bodies located in anthropogenically undisturbed territories: the Sulem River and the Sulemskoye reservoir in the Visimsky Nature Reservation (the Middle Urals), [etc.]. b. spec. (North American) An area of land set apart or reserved by the government for occupation by North American Indians, esp. by those of a particular tribe or nation.Frequently with preceding modifying word: see Indian reservation n. at Indian adj. and n. Compounds 1b(a). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > reservation for indigenous people reserve1667 Indian reserve1752 reservation1792 Indian reservation1804 station1825 location1833 native reserve1842 native location1866 res1880 native location1928 township1934 homeland1959 1792 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1806) 1st Ser. I. 287 The whole Six Nations live on grounds, called the State Reservations, and are intermediate spaces settled on both sides by white people. 1859 J. S. Helmcken Let. 25 Jan. in Archives Brit. Columbia. Memoir No. IV (1918) 45 Has the Government of this Island [sc. Vancouver Island] the power to remove the Indians (by purchase) from that piece of land inside Victoria Harbour known as the Indian Reservation? 1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. ii. xxxv. 148 In my boyhood days on the reservation many games were played. 1971 D. Heffron Nice Fire & Some Moonpennies ii. 18 He told me to remember that when you're off the Reservation, people take you not as an individual but as an Indian. 2005 Smithsonian Dec. 22/1 [They] treed a second jaguar near the reservation of the Tohono O'odham Nation. 10. Originally U.S. An act of engaging a seat, room, place, ticket, vehicle, etc., in advance; an engagement secured in this way; a booking.seat reservation: see seat n. Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > other types of written record criminal record1687 police record1773 office copy1776 geological record1811 time card1837 phylactery1855 reservation1884 press cutting1888 record1897 trace1898 swindle sheet1906 form sheet1911 Dead Sea Scrolls1949 yellow card1970 1884 Washington Post 30 Nov. 2/4 For tickets and information as to routes, sleeping-car reservations, &c., apply to ticket office, Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. 1907 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 19 Dec. 16 A considerable number of New York and Boston people have made reservations at the Curtis hotel in Lenox for the holiday season. 1935 R. Macaulay Personal Pleasures 18 Do tickets, passports, money, travellers' cheques, packing, reservations, boat trains, inns, crouch and snarl before you like those surly dragons that guard enchanted lands? 1949 Skyline Trail (Montreal) Mar. 14/2 It is most important that hikers procure their hotel reservations well in advance. 2003 Philadelphia May 94/1 An anonymous-looking building where as many as 300 people toil, making reservations and handling customer-service calls. 11. Originally U.S. Usually more fully as central reservation. A strip of ground which divides the carriageways of a road (in later use usually a motorway or dual carriageway). Cf. reserve n. 5e. Now chiefly British.The more usual term in North America and elsewhere is median strip. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > dual carriageway > central reservation reservation1887 reserve1923 median1944 1887 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 16 Dec. 8/4 Greenleaf place, an avenue 80 feet wide with a 20-foot reservation in the center, bordered by ancient elm, sycamore, maple and oak trees. 1896 29th Ann. Rep. City Engin. Boston 130 The sidewalk will have a loamed space 5 feet in width next the roadway, and the central reservation will be loamed and grassed. 1934 Times 5 Dec. 11/4 The two new roads were put in hand before the desirability of dividing carriage-ways by central reservations became prominent. 1959 Highway Code 16 Do not reverse or turn in the carriageway or cross the central reservation. 1973 J. G. Ballard Crash ii. 19 Out of my control, the car crossed the reservation and turned up the high-speed exit ramp. 1994 Daily Tel. 6 Sept. 3/3 It hit a crash barrier in the central reservation of the dual carriageway and span over the top and into the path of a lorry. 12. Exemption from military service on grounds of having an important civilian occupation; the fact of being eligible for such exemption. Also (occasionally):= reservation age n. at Compounds 2. Cf. reserve v.¹ 5d. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > discharge from service > [noun] > exemption from service reservation1916 1916 List of Certified Occupations (Local Government Board) 4 The only ground for making these reservations is that the men protected are engaged on work of national importance. 1939 Times 22 Sept. 10/5 The age of reservation for the whole-time official..of an employers' organization or a trade union has been reduced to 25. The reservation for the pot-maker..has been reduced to 21. 1941 Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Sept. 194 The test of reservation should be the work a man is actually doing, not his declared occupation. 1998 P. Summerfield Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives iv. 118 Although done in the name of the national war effort, the process of ‘reservation’ was relatively obscure to those affected. Phrases P1. without reservation: without limitation, qualification, or restriction of any kind; completely, utterly; (also) without restraint, freely, frankly. ΚΠ 1616 S. Page 9 Serm. 61 There bee some that offer all to God without reseruation, all that they haue, whatsoeuer, is in their life, or in their knowledge. 1674 J. Howe Treat. Delighting in God ii. 294 So as that you truly take him for your God,..giving up your self absolutely and without reservation to him as his. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. x. 51 Persons of all conditions repaired to his Majesty of those who had serv'd him; with whom he conferr'd without reservation. 1770 F. Gentleman Dramatic Censor I. 50 The queen..imputes it [sc. Ophelia's death], without reservation, to an accident. 1811 Antijacobin Rev. Nov. 243 To speak without reservation, we have had our being in a time..when the tenets of an infamous school..have been uniformly directed to the degradation of virtue. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 11 The lay lords replied without reservation that they would support the crown. 1893 in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 534 Socially, we unite whole-heartedly and without reservation with our non-Jewish fellow-citizens. 1936 S. A. Waksman Humus iii. 62 One may..feel justified in abandoning without reservation the whole nomenclature of ‘humic acids’. 1990 J. Halperin Novelists in their Youth i. 40 At the time Perry was the only human being he could speak and write to without reservation. 2007 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 8 Nov. 9 Something good made in England: a film about America which I can recommend without reservation. P2. U.S. to go off the reservation and variants: to deviate from what is expected or customary; to behave unexpectedly or independently. Hence also on (also on to) the reservation.With allusion to sense 9. ΚΠ 1898 F. Remington in Harper's Mag. Nov. 962/2 The fires of hatred burned within me. I was nearly overcome by a desire to ‘go off the reservation’. I wanted to damn some official, or all officialism. 1926 Washington Post 6 Jan. 17/7 Art Nehf..is a lefthander but a trusty. Mr. Nehf never goes off the reservation. 1937 S. High Roosevelt—& Then? viii. 187 It was no simple matter to keep Lewis on the reservation... He all but packed his bags for a trip into political seclusion. 1960 H. S. Truman Let. 31 Jan. in Strictly Personal & Confidential (1982) 137 I'll never forget 1948 when these so called ‘liberals’..went off the reservation and gave New York to Dewey. 1992 Spy (N.Y.) Oct. 16/3 When he's off the NBC reservation, Letterman's shenanigans are relatively good-natured. 2006 N.Y. Mag. 4 Dec. 24/2 [The] chairman doesn't need to pull his mad-as-hell economic nationalist of an anchorman back onto the reservation. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. In sense 9, esp. in reservation Indian. ΚΠ 1857 J. W. Francis N.Y. during Last Half-cent. 97 Dow..held forth in an adjacent wood, having for his audience some of the Oneida and Reservation Indians. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Oct. 7/1 It is acknowledged on all sides..that the reservation policy is a failure. 1903 G. W. James Indian Basketry (ed. 3) v. 59 I found..three sub-tribal names not mentioned by Powers, one of which, the Nu-cha-a-wai-i, is the branch of the Yokuts to which the major portion of the reservation Indians claim they belong. 1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 260 Eighty of them came to their agency and enrolled with the reservation Indians. 1991 I. Sinclair Downriver xi. 327 He had the bronze skin of a reservation Apache. 2001 H. Gilbert Postcolonial Plays 390/1 Highway's earthy comedy about the lives of seven reservation women entered the mainstream in spectacular style. b. In sense 10, as reservation clerk, reservation desk, etc. Also in plural. ΚΠ 1924 Indiana (Pa.) Weekly Messenger 25 Dec. 3/3 ‘One of the amazing things to me,’ remarked a reservation clerk in a hotel, ‘is the number of chorus girls who carry dogs.’ 1949 G. Waldron Information Film 19 Films whose sole purpose is to make switchboard operators and reservation clerks aware of the importance of their jobs and of doing them well. 1955 Sci. News Let. 5 Feb. 82/3 When the reservations agent receives a telephone query,..all he does is press a set of buttons. 1977 E. Leonard Unknown Man No. 89 xx. 207 Ryan kept going,..past the reservation desk to the foyer. 1991 J. Gavin Intimate Nights vii. 213 One winter night actor Jim Sheridan..stood downstairs by the reservation desk while the show was in progress. 2008 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 7 Aug. 5 Bookings can be made by calling the airline's reservations number. C2. reservation age n. now historical the minimum age normally required for a person to be granted reservation from military service. ΚΠ 1939 Winnipeg Free Press 24 Jan. 7/2 The aircraft industry has no reservation age so every man in it will be in the ‘dungaree army’ in wartime. 1942 Times 24 June 2/2 A limited number of men [in the building trade] below the existing reservation age of 30 will be called up within the next few weeks. 1998 Jrnl. Contemp. Hist. 33 10 From the beginning, employers could ask for deferments for individuals who were in a listed occupation but below the reservation age. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1400
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