单词 | rhodesian |
释义 | Rhodesianadj.1n.2 A. adj.1 Of or relating to Cecil Rhodes and his political philosophy. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > African politics > [adjective] > specific southern African policy or politician Rhodesian1891 Krugerite1896 Mahdist1896 1891 Rev. of Reviews Jan. 8/2 He maintains that the Portuguese..are most objectionable people, whose elimination from South Africa is one of the planks of the Rhodesian platform. 1897 Daily News 24 Mar. 7/1 The conflict between the two ideals—the Rhodesian or British, and the Krugerite or non-British. 1918 C. Radziwill Cecil Rhodes ix. 128 Perhaps the punishment of his existence lay precisely in the rapidity with which the words ‘Rhodesian finance’ and ‘Rhodesian politics’ came to signify corruption and bribery... With Rhodes' death the whole system of Rhodesian politics perished. B. n.2 = Rhodes scholar n. at Rhodes n. 1b. rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > student with scholarship scholar1593 exhibitioner1679 Rhodes scholar1902 Rhodesian1905 Fulbrighter1953 Rhodes1995 schoolmaster student1997 1905 Athenæum 16 Dec. 837/2 The Rhodesians are well spread out amongst the Colleges. Of the present year Christ Church takes 7; Balliol and Oriel, 5;..and the other Colleges 3 or less. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Rhodesianadj.2n.1 A. adj.2 Of, relating to, or from Rhodesia (see etymological note). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Africa > [adjective] > Central African lands Nigritian1757 Sudanic1802 Sudanese1853 Mozambican1875 Nigerian1876 Zanzibari1884 Rhodesian1892 Chadian1960 Katangese1962 Tanzanian1964 Lagosian1967 Namibian1968 Malawian1970 Zairean1973 Zairois1973 Zairese1974 1892 Walsall Observer 5 Nov. 7/4 I see, in this morning's papers, that many families are trekking from the Orange Free State, Transvaal, and Cape Colony and Natal—all Boers—towards the new Rhodesian world—Mashonaland. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 232/1 In November 1897 the Rhodesian Railway..had reached Bulawayo. 1920 Glasgow Herald 10 Apr. 4 The tobacco has become an entirely new type in colour and flavour, and must eventually be known as ‘Rhodesian’ tobacco. 1935 Discovery Nov. 315/2 Here is an argument that should be retained in the mind of the exploiters of the countryside, whether Rhodesian, American, or even British. 1956 Afr. Affairs 55 70 MacDonald..commanded a Rhodesian battalion in the second world war. 1977 Whitaker's Almanack 596/2 The Rhodesian prime minister (Mr Ian Smith) announced major relaxations in the racial laws. 2003 T. King in K. H. Karim Media of Diaspora xiii. 183 What makes a Rhodesian e-mail discussion list..all the more interesting is that Rhodesian identity is now purely in the memory. B. n.1 1. A native or inhabitant of Rhodesia, esp. a white one.After independence in 1980, although the name of (Southern) Rhodesia changed to Zimbabwe, some white people continued to call themselves ‘Rhodesians’. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions Angolan1600 Angola1653 Malay1765 South African1806 Ngwaketsea1832 bushboya1834 Kapenaar1834 Transkeian1847 bosch-man1849 Natalian1850 burgher1879 Transvaaler1887 veldman1895 Rhodesian1897 Vaalpens1899 backvelder1911 plattelander1934 southwester1960 Zimbabwean1961 Zambian1963 Botswanian1966 Botswanan1967 Namibian1968 Ciskeian1973 Sowetan1974 1897 Rhodesia 27 Nov. 62/2 To avow that the average Rhodesian is any better than other frail humanity would be untrue; but they are no worse. 1936 Jrnl. Royal Afr. Soc. 35 47 It is well..that the present generation of Rhodesians should be occasionally reminded that their prosperous condition has not been attained without much endurance. 1956 Afr. Affairs 55 70 The attitude of most Rhodesians may be said to be that, although they see in advancement of the African a possible limitation of their own privileges, they would not wish that progress to be curbed. 1977 Time 8 Aug. 26/2 I [sc. Ian Smith] have the backing of the majority of Rhodesians. I believe Rhodesians are prepared to move, but not in the direction of a sellout. 2003 T. King in K. H. Karim Media of Diaspora xiii. 183 A new book on the Rhodesian diaspora by a Rhodesian living in northern California had [in 1996] renewed interest among Rhodesians about their own history. 2. In plural. In the London stock exchange: the shares of Rhodesian mining companies. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > share > shares in specific country or industry railway share1822 railroad shares1828 railway stock1836 railroads1848 Canada1868 coalers1878 Mets1886 industrial1887 golds1888 Kaffir1889 electrics1892 rails1893 Westralians1894 kangaroo1896 coppers1899 the junglea1901 electricals1901 Rhodesians1901 diamonds1905 Siberians1906 steels1912 utility1930 properties1964 engineer1976 mining1983 1901 C. Duguid How to read Money Article 121 The market in which they are dealt in the Stock Exchange is often called the ‘Kaffir Circus’. Term does not comprise Rhodesians. 1936 Economist 28 Mar. 726/1 Rhodesians also failed to share in the improvement in the Kaffir department, and prices tended to sag. Compounds Rhodesian fever n. Veterinary Medicine (now disused) = East Coast fever n. at East Coast n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle murrainc1450 gall1577 gargyse1577 sprenges1577 wisp1577 closh1587 milting1587 moltlong1587 hammer1600 mallet1600 scurvy1604 wither1648 speed1704 nostril dropping1708 bladdera1722 heartsick1725 throstling1726 striking1776 feather-cling1799 hollow-horn1805 weed1811 blood striking1815 the slows1822 toad-bit1825 coast-fever1840 horn-distemper1843 rat's tail1847 whethering1847 milk fever1860 milt-sickness1867 pearl tumour1872 actinomycosis1877 pearl disease1877 rat-tail1880 lumpy jaw1891 niatism1895 cripple1897 rumenitis1897 Rhodesian fever1903 reticulitis1905 barbone1907 contagious abortion1910 trichomoniasis1915 shipping fever1932 New Forest disease1954 bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987 BSE1987 mad cow disease1988 East Coast fever2009 1903 Med. Rec. 17 Oct. 618/2 The German professor commits the blunder of identifying both Rhodesian fever and Texas, or red-water fever, with the cattle fever of the East Coast of Africa. 1917 S. H. Burnett Clin. Pathol. Blood Domesticated Animals (ed. 2) ix. 132 East coast or Rhodesian fever is a destructive disease of cattle in parts of South Africa caused by Theileria parva, Theiler. Rhodesian lion dog n. now historical = Rhodesian ridgeback n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > Rhodesian ridgeback ridgeback1872 Rhodesian lion dog1928 1928 Times 11 Oct. 11/4 Among the novelties are a pair of Rhodesian lion dogs. 1948 C. L. B. Hubbard Dogs in Brit. xxi. 375 It [sc. the Rhodesian Ridgeback] was for some years known in Britain as the Rhodesian Lion Dog. Rhodesian man n. Palaeontology (now chiefly historical) a fossil hominid similar to Neanderthal man, known from remains found at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia), in 1921, formerly called Homo rhodesiensis and now usually grouped with H. heidelbergensis. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1921 A. S. Woodward in Nature 17 Nov. 372/2 The newly discovered Rhodesian man may therefore revive the idea that Neanderthal man is truly an ancestor of Homo sapiens. 1952 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 18 125 This fossil [sc. the Florisbad skull] is now generally accepted as being a specialised type not much older than Rhodesian man. 1988 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. III. 50/1 The skeletal material, once called Rhodesian Man, but now usually referred to as Kabwe or Broken Hill Man..represents a population in Africa 400,000–200,000 years ago..transitional between late Homo erectus and early..Homo sapiens. Rhodesian redwater n. Veterinary Medicine (now rare) = East Coast fever n. (b) at East Coast n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1902 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. & Therapeutics 15 377 It may be due to climatic influences, and may persist as a constant characteristic of Rhodesian redwater. 1911 R. E. Buchanan Vet. Bacteriol. xliii. 458 Disease produced.—East African coast fever, Rhodesian red-water, Rhodesian tick fever in cattle. 1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) xvi. 411/2 East Coast fever (Rhodesian tick fever, Rhodesian redwater, theileriasis of cattle, coastal fever) is an acute, febrile disease of cattle. Rhodesian ridgeback n. a breed of large dog having a short, light brown coat and a ridge of hair along the middle of the back which grows in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat; a dog of this breed. ΚΠ 1928 Times 11 Oct. 20 (caption) Sporting dogs at the Kennel Club's show... Mrs. Edward Foljambe's Rhodesian Ridgback lion dog. 1955 J. Packer Valley of Vines iv. 44 Their house stood empty save for the Native boy, Elias, and two Rhodesian ridgebacks. 1997 A. C. Clarke 3001: Final Odyssey xi. 80 Along these narrow paths..he had walked with his beloved Rhodesian Ridgeback, throwing sticks for him to retrieve. Rhodesian skull n. Palaeontology the skull of Rhodesian man. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > specific fossil Piltdown skull1912 Rhodesian skull1921 Piltdown jaw1933 Saccopastore cranium1934 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > [noun] > fossil Piltdown skull1912 Rhodesian skull1921 Saccopastore cranium1934 Saccopastore skull1934 1921 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 51 461 Professor Elliot Smith gave a short demonstration on the Rhodesian skull, with lantern slides. 1946 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past ix. 296 Another undated Neandertaloid is the Rhodesian Skull. 1983 Amer. Anthropologist 85 699/1 He discusses the redating of the Rhodesian skull. Rhodesian sleeping sickness n. Medicine a form of sleeping sickness caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, which occurs mainly in East Africa and typically runs a more rapid course than classical (Gambian) sleeping sickness, with less neurological and more cardiac involvement, often resulting in death from heart failure. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers fever hectica1398 emitrichie1398 hectic1398 etisie1527 emphysode fever1547 frenzy-fever1613 purple fever1623 prunella1656 marcid fever1666 remittent1693 feveret1712 rheumatic fever1726 milk fever1739 stationary fever1742 febricula1746 milky fever1747 camp-disease1753 camp-fever1753 sun fever1765 recurrent fever1768 rose fever1782 tooth-fever1788 sensitive fever1794 forest-fever1799 white leg1801 hill-fever1804 Walcheren fever1810 Mediterranean fever1816 malignant1825 relapsing fever1828 rose cold1831 date fever1836 rose catarrh1845 Walcheren ague1847 mountain fever1849 mill fever1850 Malta fever1863 bilge-fever1867 Oroya fever1873 hyperpyrexia1875 famine-fever1876 East Coast fever1881 spirillum fevera1883 kala azar1883 black water1884 febricule1887 urine fever1888 undulant fever1896 rabbit fever1898 rat bite fever1910 Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911 sandfly fever1911 tularaemia1921 sodoku1926 brucellosis1930 Rift Valley fever1931 Zika1952 Lassa fever1970 Marburg1983 1911 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 83 206 A regular periodic increase in the trypanosomes in the peripheral circulation of sub-inoculated animals..like that found..in a case of Rhodesian Sleeping Sickness. 1918 A. S. Chandler Animal Parasites & Human Dis. xxvi. 499 Glossina morsitans.., carrier of many trypanosome diseases of animals and of the newly arisen and still narrowly limited Rhodesian sleeping sickness, is the most widely distributed species of tsetse fly. 1995 Trop. Med. & Parasitol. 46 190 DFMO is not an appropriate alternative or backup drug for treatment of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda. Rhodesian tick fever n. Veterinary Medicine (now rare) = East Coast fever n. (b) at East Coast n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1903 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. & Therapeutics 16 317 D. V. S. Conacher was induced to inoculate a healthy donkey with 50cc. of virulent blood from a certified case of Rhodesian tick fever. 1904 A. Theiler in Rep. S. Afr. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 203 The disease was originally called Rhodesian Redwater... An improvement in the nomenclature was the words Rhodesian Tick Fever: a still better name is East Coast Fever. 1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) xvi. 411/2 East Coast fever (Rhodesian tick fever, Rhodesian redwater, theileriasis of cattle, coastal fever) is an acute, febrile disease of cattle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1n.21891adj.2n.11892 |
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