单词 | accredited |
释义 | accreditedadj. 1. a. Provided with credentials, publicly or officially recognized. Cf. well-accredited adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [adjective] > having guaranteed quality well-warranted1548 accredited1738 well-accredited1800 1738 T. Lediard German Spy xx. 169 The Kings of Denmark..keep an accredited Minister there, which is a manifest Recognition of their Independency and Sovereignty. 1791 W. Short Let. 28 Jan. in T. Jefferson Papers (1974) XIX. 117 It was printed in an accredited Parisian gazette. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iv. iv. 312 They sought their philosophy in accredited treatises. 1870 Illustr. London News 29 Oct. 438 The diplomatic body accredited at Madrid. 1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 131/2 It is always wise to buy lamps, as well as electrical gadgets, of well-known accredited make. 1983 Third Way Oct. 6/2 With more than one accredited journalist for every two official delegates, the media were there in every conceivable form. 2002 J. Weyland Answer is Never x. 145 I had my own board and pads and skate T-shirts now... I was an accredited member of a genuine underground. b. Education (originally U.S.). Of a school, course, etc.: certified as meeting standards established by external assessors or regulators. ΚΠ 1817 National Advocate (N.Y.) 19 Sept. It is worthy of consideration whether a citizen should be permitted to practise [law] without having..taken his degrees at an accredited college. 1851 Liverpool Mercury 31 Jan. 11/5 The principle of compulsion should be resorted to so far as to render it obligatory on all parents to send their children, up to a certain age, to some accredited school. 1907 Times 22 July 18/3 A student..gets an allowance..which..he or she may carry to any duly accredited college. 1940 A. C. Klein Civil Service in Public Welfare 22 What is a ‘recognized’ agency, or an ‘accredited’ course of training? 1991 Chron. Higher Ed. 9 Jan. b 24/2 (advt.) Candidates..must have an earned doctorate in social work or other social science field, and an MSW from an accredited school. 2011 S. Brookfield & J. D. Holst Radicalizing Learning iv. 84 In one of the factories, the workers have gone so far as to establish an accredited school in metalworking training. c. Originally U.S. Of dairy herds (and occasionally other farm animals): certified by a recognized authority as free from a particular disease, typically tuberculosis or brucellosis (cf. tuberculin-tested adj. at tuberculin n. Compounds 2); (of milk) sold or distributed with a guarantee that it has met certain processing and production standards.The precise significance of the designation as applied to milk has varied in different jurisdictions. In Britain the term came into use for milk in 1936 by the Milk (Special Designations) Order of that year, to replace Grade A, and was withdrawn from use in 1954. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk > accredited accredited1906 1906 Pacific Med. Jrnl. 49 15 For such supervision the dairyman should pay, and exact from the public an extra price for pure accredited milk. 1914 Chicago Tribune 8 Feb. ii. 4/3 A written agreement with the board of livestock commissioners, the terms of which cover a tuberculin test, the maintenance of sanitary conditions,..etc. This agreement fulfilled, the herd will be an ‘accredited herd’. 1922 Official Reg. State Iowa 1921–2 316 He feels proud to think that he has an accredited herd of Scotch Shorthorn cattle. 1923 Lancet 1 Dec. 1200/1 The principle of his method is to separate diseased from healthy cows by means of the tuberculin test... It differs from ‘the accredited herd plan’ prevalent in America in that there all reacting animals are slaughtered. 1934 Times 24 Jan. 7/2 He would like to see a national scheme for the eradication of disease from the herds, with a preferential price for milk from accredited herds. 1989 Milk (Special Designation) Regulations (Statutory Instrument No. 2383) (Electronic ed.) i ‘Accredited herd’ means a herd which..has been found to be free from brucellosis. 1990 Farmweek 14 Mar. 36/3 (advt.) Performance Tested Boars. Brucellosis validated & PRV [= pseudorabies virus] accredited herd. 1999 O. M. Radostits et al. Vet. Med. (ed. 9) xix. 915/3 Attention must be given to the possibility of infection being reintroduced with replacements, which should come from accredited herds. 2009 S. Waters Little Stranger i. 52 With a brick shed and an electric milker we could start turning out accredited milk, and make more of a profit. 2. Promulgated or regarded as worthy of belief, sanctioned authoritatively or by general credence. ΚΠ 1795 T. Beddoes Observ. in J. Brown tr. Elements Med. (new ed.) I. p. *clxiii The difficulty of emancipating the mind from the dominion of inveterate and accredited error. 1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises I. 436 The latest accredited rumour is, that the Lords are determined to resist the reformation of the House of Commons. 1858 M. Pattison Ess. (1889) II. 345 Before the beginning of the present century Montaigne's Secretariate to the Queen had become an accredited event. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 888 The phoenix..has been immortalized in imagery because of its accredited habit of destroying itself on a fire of sweet herbs,..and arising again from the ashes. 1958 B. Deutsch Poetry Handbk. 93 The lack of an acceptable or widely accredited myth..is the subject of many contemporary poems. 1997 I. Sinclair Lights out for Territory (1998) 102 To try to get a sense of the original shape [of Roman London] by tapping its accredited ruins, following the designated route, is futile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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