单词 | slave-making |
释义 | slave-makingadj. 1. That enslaves a person or people (in literal and figurative senses of enslave v.). Π a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) xv. 205 These slave-making conjunctions betweene the Spaniard, and his Chaplaine. 1713 J. Toland Dunkirk or Dover 6 I..would fain see the man..that should pretend to stop our mouths, or pens against any insolent, perfidious, slavish, and slave-making Nation. 1882 H. Spencer Polit. Inst. iv. 292 And that in Africa slave-making wars are common needs no proof. c1956 W. Everson Prodigious Thrust (1996) 175 As a radical anarcho-pacificist I had long considered its socialistic machinations nothing less than blood-letting, slave-making folly. 2010 Caribbean Q. Dec. 24 Attempts by the former slave-making classes and their British colonial backers to corral emancipated Africans into an ontologically degraded labouring class. 2. Entomology. Of an ant or species of ant: that captures larval, pupal, or adult ants from another colony (usually of a different species) for use as workers. Also: of or relating to such an ant or species, or such behaviour. Cf. dulotic adj. at dulosis n. Derivatives. ΘΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > of or relating to ants > that enslave others slave-makinga1628 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xvii. 80 Formica sanguinea..is another of the slave-making ants. 1882 Westm. Rev. Apr. 175/1 As a rule, in their slave-making expeditions, they [sc. ants of the species Formica sanguinea] do not kill many of the ants whose nests they ravage. 1967 Psyche 74 299 Since slave-making raids of the genus Polyergus are conspicuous and spectacular, they have been studied by a number of myrmecologists. 2017 R. Menzel Learning & Memory (ed. 2) 1 xxi. 399 Adults emerging from these pupae behave and work for the slave-making species as if it were its own species. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < adj.a1628 |
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