单词 | stamen |
释义 | stamenn. 1. The warp of a textile fabric. Also transferred. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > thread(s) > warp stamen1650 chain1721 pile warp1748 nap-warp1846 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine App. 190 As in a Web, the stamen, or Warp, is fast fixed, through which the woofe is cast, or woven. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §1. i. 6 Those whitest Fibers which..make the stamen or warp of every Muscule. a. The thread spun by the Fates at a person's birth, on the length of which the duration of his life was suppose to depend. Hence, in popular physiology, the measure of vital impulse or capacity which it was supposed that each person possessed at birth, and on which the length of his life, unless cut short by violence or disease, was supposed to depend. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life life-dayOE year-daysOE timeOE dayOE lifeOE life's timeOE livelihoodOE yearOE lifetimea1300 life-whilea1300 for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325 coursec1384 livingc1390 voyage1390 agea1398 life's dayc1425 thread1447 racea1450 living daysc1450 natural life1461 lifeness1534 twist1568 leasec1595 span1599 clew1615 marcha1625 peregrination1653 clue1684 stamen1701 life term1739 innings1772 lifelong1814 pass-through1876 inning1885 natural1891 life cycle1915 puff1967 1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 13 A person seemingly of a weakly Stamen and a valetudinary Constitution. 1709 Tatler No. 15. ⁋1 All, who enter into human life, have a certain date or Stamen given to their being, which they only who die of age may be said to have arrived at. a1745 J. Richardson Note on Milton's Lycidas 75 Of the three fatal sisters the first prepar'd the flax upon the distaff, the stamen of human life. 1753 L. M. tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman I. 246 Bad example hath not less influence upon education than a bad stamen upon the constitution. b. The supposed germinal principle or impulse in which the future characteristics of any nascent existence are implicit. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun] souleOE lifeOE spiritusOE bloodOE ghostOE life and soulOE quickship?c1225 quicknessc1230 breatha1300 spirita1325 spark1382 naturec1385 sparkle1388 livelinessa1398 rational soula1398 spiracle1398 animal spirit?a1425 vital spiritc1450 soul of the world1525 candle1535 fire1576 three souls1587 vitality?1592 candlelight1596 substance1605 vivacity1611 animality1615 vividity1616 animals1628 life spring1649 archeus1651 vital1670 spirituosity1677 springs of life1681 microcosmetor1684 vital force1702 vital spark (also flame)1704 stamen1718 vis vitae1752 prana1785 Purusha1785 jiva1807 vital force1822 heartbeat1828 world-soul1828 world-spirit1828 life energy1838 life force1848 ghost soul1869 will to live1871 biogen1882 ki1893 mauri1897 élan vital1907 orgone1942 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. xvi. 306 All the Great Naturalists..have been convinced..that the Beginning of all Creatures consist in a Stamen. 1725 J. Reynolds View of Death vi. 16 Some suppose, that the soul takes away with it, the animal spirits, as the stamen, or ground of the vehicle, it is to assume. c. The fundamental or essential element of a thing. Obsolete. Cf. stamina n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] pitheOE i-cundeeOE roota1325 substancec1330 juicec1380 marrowa1382 formc1385 acta1398 quidditya1398 substantial forma1398 inward1398 savourc1400 inwardc1450 allaya1456 essencya1475 being1521 bottom1531 spirit?1534 summary1548 ecceity1549 core1556 flower1568 formality1570 sum and substance1572 alloy1594 soul1598 inwardness1605 quid1606 fibre1607 selfness1611 whatness1611 essentialityc1616 propera1626 the whole shot1628 substantiala1631 esse1642 entity1643 virtuality1646 ingeny1647 quoddity1647 intimacy1648 ens1649 inbeing1661 essence1667 interiority1701 intrinsic1716 stamen1758 character1761 quidditas1782 hyparxis1792 rasa1800 bone1829 what1861 isness1865 inscape1868 as-suchness1909 Wesen1959 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 61 Earth is the general food and stamen of all bodies. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 305 Philosophers..looked upon water as the elemental matter, or stamen of all things. 3. a. Botany. The male or fertilizing organ of a flowering plant, consisting of two parts, the anther, which is a double-celled sac containing the pollen, and the filament, a slender footstalk supporting the anther.Although the Latin stamen was applied by Pliny to the stamens of the lily, the technical use of the word in botany apparently began with Spigelius (Adriaan van den Spieghel, died 1625), who defines stamina as ‘partes oblongæ tenues veluti capillamenta..quæ stylum (partem similiter oblongam sed paulo crassiorem)..ambiunt’ (Isagoge in Rem Herbariam, ed. 1633, i. vi. p. 37). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > stamen(s) thrum1578 chive1664 stamen1668 attire1672 semet1672 capillament1726 filament1756 phalanx1771 androphore1821 staminodium1821 andrœcium1839 staminode1857 phalange1872 α. singular β. plural stamina.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. §4 81 [Herbs] Stamineous; whose flower doth consist of threddy filaments or Stamina.1683 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 131 A thrum of small flowers, which are vulgarly mistaken for stamina.1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. iv. 10 The Stamina are the Male Part of the Flower.1858 Brightwell Life Linnæus 25 A close examination of the stamina and pistils.1879 J. Grant in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 95/1 He showed that the stamina, or dust-threads, were the male..parts of the plants.γ. plural stamens.1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. i. 25 Between the pistil and the corol [of a Lily] you find six other bodies..called the Stamens.1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 470 Class 21. Monoecia. Stamens and Pistils in separate flowers, but both growing on the same individual plant.1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 791 The stamens of Berberis..lose their irritability in vacuo.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. vi. 170 [Parts of the flower.] Stamen, tuft. 1764 J. Berkenhout Clavis Anglica Linguæ Bot. (at cited word) Each Stamen consists of two distinct parts, viz. the Filamentum, and the Anthera. 1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) i. 15 The Stamen is one of the parts which stand next the corolla in the inside. b. In combinations. ΚΠ 1821 S. F. Gray Nat. Arrangem. Brit. Plants I. 159 Gynophore... Stamen-bearing,..supporting the stamens also. 1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 170 The barren or stamen-bearing flowers. 1877 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (ed. 4) 84 The union of the filaments for three-fourths of their length to form the stamen-tube. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1650 |
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