单词 | survivorship |
释义 | survivorshipn. 1. Law, etc. a. The condition of a survivor, or the fact of one person surviving another or others, considered in relation to some right or privilege depending on such survival or the period of it. presumption of survivorship, the presumption of the momentary or brief survival of one of a number of persons who have perished by the same calamity, as affecting rights of inheritance. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] lifeOE livingc1350 existence1583 survival1598 survivancea1623 survivership1638 supervivency1659 vivaciousnessa1661 vivacity1663 survivorship1697 surviving1818 1697 London Gaz. No. 3315/4 An Order, No 3179 Sir John Burgoyne..for 100l. on Survivorships, on the Life of Lucy Burgoyne. 1772 R. Price Observ. Reversionary Payments (ed. 2) 75 Since the duration of survivorship is in the present case..equal to the duration of marriage. 1815 J. Milne (title) A treatise on the valuation of annuities and assurances on lives and survivorships. 1825 Beck's Elem. Med. Jurispr. 209 Of the presumption of survivorship of mother or child, when both die during delivery. 1825 Beck's Elem. Med. Jurispr. 211 Of the presumption of survivorship of persons of different ages, destroyed by a common accident. 1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row vii. 114 Jane ought to have given the largest proportion, not only because she had no claims upon her, but because her survivorship enriched her by means of this very death. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 330/2 The chance of survivorship is that of one individual, now of a given age, surviving another, also now of a given age. 1872 Hist. Broughton Place Church 56 The Rev. Andrew Thomson was inducted as colleague and, in case of survivorship, successor to the Rev. Dr. Brown. b. A right depending on survival; e.g. the right of the survivor or survivors of a number of joint-tenants or other persons having a joint interest, to take the whole on the death of the other or others; the right of future succession, in case of survival, to some office not vacant at the time of the grant. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > of survivor surviver1528 superviver1542 survivorshipa1625 survivancy1659 survivancec1674 a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 60 Two Abbots cannot bee Ioyntenants..for they cannot haue the effect of it, which is suruiuorship. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 38 The Clergy..turned both King and Lords out and shut the doores after them, and so possessed themselves of the whole by Survivorship. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lvii The Conservatorship..may by survivorship accrue to a Colour-man in the Strand. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 163 Where the Grant has been by Survivorship. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 317 That each annuitant should receive a proportionable share of his fortune, with benefit of survivorship and right of accruer. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1199/1 The values of annuities and assurances in every order of survivorship, where there are only three lives. 1860 Commercial Handbk 70 Survivorship in Life Assurance, a reversionary benefit, contingent upon certain lives being survivors. 1860 M. W. Freer Hist. Henry IV: Pt. I II. ii. iv. 89 He offered the government of Burgundy, with the survivorship for his son. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 598/1 On the death of one trustee there is survivorship. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > by survivorship survivorshipa1643 a1643 J. Burroughs Sovereignty Brit. Seas (1651) 23 Canutus the Dane, coming not long after to be King first of halfe the Realme..and after the death of Edmond of the whole Survivorshippe. d. attributive: survivorship annuity n. (see quot. 1838). ΚΠ 1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 206 To find..the value of an annuity on the life of B, aged n, the first payment of which is to be made at the end of the year in which the life of A, aged m, fails. This is called a survivorship annuity, since it can never be paid unless B survive A. 2. a. gen. The state or condition of being a survivor; survival. ΚΠ 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 53. ⁋2 We are now going into the Country together, with only one Hope for making this Life agreeable, Survivorship. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 192. ⁋2 The Survivorship of a worthy Man in his Son. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xcvii. 334 In case of survivorship, I most chearfully accept of the sacred office you are pleased to offer me. 1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 97/1 As old men, we reap nothing from our sufferings, nor benefit by our survivorship. 1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxiii. 203 The Epikureans denied altogether the survivorship of soul over body. 1877 J. Martineau in C. B. Upton Life & Lett. J. Martineau (1902) II. viii. 38 It is better to have, than to give, the grief of survivorship. b. The probability of surviving to a given age; the proportion of a population that does this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > demographics birth rate1856 demography1880 natality1885 demographics1892 nuptiality1900 survivorship1949 1949 L. I. Dublin et al. Length of Life (ed. 2) ix. 178 With information available regarding the actual mortality and survivorship of the cohort born in 1890, it becomes possible to compute..the average years of life lived after any attained age. 1954 Q. Rev. Biol. 29 105/1 These quantities are nicely summed up by the familiar life-table function, survivorship (lx)..and by the age-specific birth rate. 1978 Nature 5 Oct. 466/1 In higher forms life span and survivorship can be expressed in terms of allometric and Gompertz equations. 3. A body of survivors. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > survivor > collectively surviverya1679 survivorship1867 1867 Woolrych Bar & Serjeant-at-Law 7 The Bar will survive, and the survivorship will consist of the Queen's Counsel and the Barristers-at-Law. Compounds survivorship curve n. a curve showing the proportion of a population surviving at different ages. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > graph > relating to population population curve1875 population pyramid1927 survivorship curve1953 1953 E. P. Odum Fund. Ecol. vi. 108 The resulting curve is called a survivorship curve. 1976 Nature 1 Jan. 12/2 Van Valen..has made a notable contribution in this respect by applying the survivorship curve technique of population biologists to the study of extinction rates for numerous fossil taxa. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1625 |
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