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单词 replicant
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replicantn.

Brit. /ˈrɛplᵻk(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈrɛplək(ə)nt/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin; apparently originally modelled on a Spanish lexical item. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin replicant- , replicāns , replicāre ; replicate v., -ant suffix1.
Etymology: Originally < classical Latin replicant-, replicāns, present participle of replicāre replicate v. In sense 1 apparently a misunderstanding of Spanish replicato reply, riposte (1439, rare by the end of the 16th cent.). In sense 3 independently < replic- (in replicate v.) + -ant suffix1. With sense 2 compare French repliquant , present participle of repliquer replique v.; compare earlier repliant n., replier n.
1. A new applicant. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals
beseecher1382
petitioner1414
suitor1414
orator1417
suppliantc1422
supplicant1475
soliciter1536
solicitor1551
oratricle1574
pleader1584
supplicationer1585
beggar1589
incaller?1591
supplicator1593
petitor1596
beadsman1600
impetrator1605
implorer1611
imploratora1616
replicant1622
invokera1649
prostrate1648
deprecator1656
appellant1704
memorialist1706
applicationer1710
postulant1733
invocant1751
solicitant1821
petitionist1822
memorializer1859
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue iii. iii. 202 Vpon the necke of that comes another replicant [Sp. replicato], and he laies about him, beseeching him to bestow vpon him some old shirt.
2. = replier n. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > person answering
replierc1454
respondent1528
answerer1551
repliant1594
replicant1626
responser1791
responder1825
replyist1852
1626 J. Fisher Answer Nine Points Controv. (new ed.) ii. 10 Heere our Replicant shewes himselfe to be according to the Ministeriall kind, by railing at the Answerer.
1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 193 Though this were indeed the divination of the bitter Replicant, and the intention of the Publisher.
1643 Contra-replicant's Compl. 2 The next Art of our Replicant is to impose those his nude averments, which are most false and improbable.
a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 55 The ordinary divinity act should be constantly kept with three replicants.
1829 J. Roby Trad. of Lancs. (1831) I. 279 ‘Then do ye rig folks out with graves here upon trust?’ ‘Nay,’ said the malicious-looking replicant.
1862 Jrnl. Sacred Lit. New ser. 1 480 We feel, moreover, that this dry subject has been somewhat evaded by the other replicants to the Essays and Reviews.
1933 Hispania 16 52 When a question is asked, the entire stage for reaction is frequently set: the subject is defined, the grammatical structure forecast,..and many items of vocabulary are literally thrown into the mouth of the replicant.
3. Science Fiction. An artificial being in the form of a human or other creature; an android. Hence (in extended use): a person who acts or behaves like a replicant, esp. in imitating or resembling others (cf. clone n. 2b).The 1968 book Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, on which the film Bladerunner (see quot. 1980) is based, uses the term android (or andy).
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1980 H. Fancher & D. Peoples Blade Runner (film script) 22 Dec. (scene 30) The big religious boys said that replicants, no matter how human, were objects, only God could make people.
1987 W. Schneider in Atlantic Monthly July 67/1 If the public is dissatisfied with Reagan's performance, why should it vote for a Reagan replicant?
1989 Cineaste Sept. 10/2 Los Angeles 2019..with..small laboratories in which technicians work to reproduce mechanical replicants of life forms that are now extinct on earth.
1993 UNIX Rev. May 65 (advt.) The database replicants over in accounting. The PC droids in sales.
2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Jan. e26 [He] plays a scientist who has found a way of distinguishing the deadly robots from actual people but then falls under suspicion of being a replicant himself.
2007 Daily Mail (Nexis) 26 Nov. 40 She turned far too many celebrities into ultra-girly, weak, over made-up replicants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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