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单词 vacand
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vacandadj.n.

Forms: Also Middle English wacande, Middle English–1500s wacand, 1600s vaicand, vacane. β. Middle English wakande, vakande, Middle English–1500s vakand, 1500s vaken.
Etymology: Scots present participle of vake v. The usual spelling with c follows that of Latin vacant- : see vacant adj. and n.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A. adj.
= vacant adj. (esp. in sense B. 1).
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > [adjective] > vacant (of an office)
vacantc1290
voida1387
vacand1405
avoid1488
vaking1572
society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [adjective] > of a position: vacant
vacantc1290
vacand1405
α.
1405 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 57 With the gyffing and the patronage of the said Kirk..alse often as it happinys to be vacand.
1458 Burgh Rec. Peebles (1872) 126 Sir Wilyam of Fulop chapellane sal be present..to the first service that sal hapyn vacand in thair gouernans.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 531 As Bruce at the palȝoun So entryt In and saw wacand his seit.
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 198 Couatyce ringis in to the spirituall state Ȝarnand banifice the quhilk ar now vacand.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 286 He gaue him the pryorie of Coldinghame..quhilk was wacand in his handis at that tyme.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 26 After the deceis of the husband, the Dowrie of his wife named be him, is vaicand (possessed be na man) or nocht vaicand.
1649 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 11 He [the minister] was excommunicate, and his church declared vacane.
β. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. 27 Qwhil þus þe kynrik was wakande, Off Inglande þe kynge was þan thynkande [etc.].1456 Extr. Aberd. Rec. (1844) I. 21 That chapelnary of Saynt Nichallis altar was than vakande.1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1710) xiii. x. 119 With this the Kyng Latinus can deceis, And left the sceptoure vakand to his hand.
B. n.
1. One who is free to take a mate.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [noun] > marriageable person > one who is free to marry
vacand?1507
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 46 Ȝe speik of berdis on bewch of blise may thai sing, That on Sanct Valentynis day ar vacandis ilk ȝer.
2. A vacant office; a vacancy.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > a vacancy
vacation1535
vacand1567
vacancy1693
opening1752
1567 Burgh Rec. Peebles (1872) 306 Nixt vaken that fallis within the towne of Peblis, that the said Thomas sones sall haif the samin.
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