单词 | victorian |
释义 | Victorianadj.1 Victorian cycle n. (also Victorian period) see quot. 1728 and Dionysian adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > in different cultures or calendars Julian period1592 saros1613 octaeteris1645 lustrala1656 biennium1699 Dionysian period1728 Victorian cycle1728 Sothic cycle or period1828 katun1902 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Period Victorian Period, an Interval of 532 Julian Years, which elaps'd, the new and full Moons, return on the same Day of the Julian Year. 1905 J. B. Bury Life St. Patrick App. 372 The Celtic Church in Britain and Ireland never adopted the Victorian cycle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Victorianadj.2n.1 A. adj.2 1. Of or belonging to, designating, or typical of the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > Victorian Victorian1839 early Victorian1871 pre-Victorian1887 middle Victorian1896 post-Victorian1912 neo-Victorian1940 1839 Athenæum 2 Nov. 825/1 Perhaps the Annean authors, though inferior to the Elizabethans, are, on a general summation of merits, no less superior to the latter-Georgian and Victorian. 1850 E. P. Hood Age & its Architects ii. 71 The Victorian Commonwealth is the most wonderful picture on the face of the earth. 1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (ed. 13) i. 6 The significant likeness between the Alexandrian and Victorian eras. 1880 C. H. Pearson in Victorian Rev. (Melbourne) Feb. 544 The changes..were more radical than any programme of Victorian Liberalism suggests. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 591 An old-fashioned petticoat such as an early Victorian-age lady would have worn. 1907 F. F. Montrésor Burning Torch 426 The furniture..was adorned in a heavy Early Victorian style. 2. figurative. Resembling or typified by the attitudes supposedly characteristic of the Victorian era; prudish, strict; old-fashioned, out-dated. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc. old-fashioned1596 musty1603 mildewed1605 fusty1609 wormy1611 frumpy1746 fossila1770 arriéré1814 has-been1819 Rip Van Winkleish1829 frumpish1847 archaistic1850 fogey1852 fogeyish1852 old fogeyish1853 rusty-fusty1864 mossbacked1876 dead-handed1928 Victorian1934 unhep1939 unhip1939 dinosaurian1943 square1946 dinosaur-like1947 dinosauric1977 analogue1993 1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1950 G. B. Shaw Farfetched Fables 72 He was helping the movement against Victorian prudery in a very practical way as a nudist. 1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate vi. 157 In an emergency, one can't be Victorian about things, you know. 1977 P. G. Winslow Witch Hill Murder ii. xvi. 217 He was becoming rather heavily paternal to Linda. A Victorian parent. 1977 Time Out 17 June 5/2 Elsewhere in the files is an even worse example of what workers described as ‘Victorian industrial relations’. B. n.1 1. A person, esp. an author, who lived in the reign of Queen Victoria. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > Victorian era > one who lived in early Victorian1871 Victorian1876 middle Victorian1896 post-Victorian1914 mid-Victorian1918 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary man > of specific place or period Augustan1818 trecentist1821 seicentoist1830 cinquecentist1871 Victorian1876 Jacobean1885 seicentist1905 Georgian1913 neo-Georgian1923 Jindyworobak1938 wên jên1958 1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 219 We can scarcely avoid calling him [Browning] the strongest, truest poet of the Victorians. 1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 61 He [sc. Tennyson], alone of the Victorians, has definitely entered the immortal group of our English poets. 2. a. An article of furniture from the time of Queen Victoria. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > types of furniture generally > piece of encoignure1848 Chippendale1875 unit1899 Victorian1905 island1932 sectional1961 1905 E. Glyn Vicissitudes Evangeline 189 I shall have the suite..done up with pale green, and burn all the Early Victorians. b. U.S. A house built during the reign of Queen Victoria. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > a Victorian building Victorian1959 1959 House Beautiful June 100 (heading) The virtues of a Victorian. 1978 J. Gores Gone, no Forwarding (1979) ix. 56 The house was an old Victorian, a Queen Anne which had been converted into rental units. Compounds Victorian Gothic adj. designating the style of architecture typical of the Gothic Revival (see Gothic adj. 3d); frequently absol. as n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > Gothic revival Pugin1842 Puginesque1848 neo-Gothic1878 Victorian Gothic1910 steamboat Gothic1962 1910 H. G. Wells New Machiavelli (1911) i. iii. 59 A new church in the Victorian Gothic. 1934 T. E. Tallmadge Story Eng. Archit. (1935) viii. 256 This structure [sc. the Albert Memorial] typifies to the last degree the Victorian Gothic style. 1961 Times 18 May 16/6 This small jewel of Victorian-Gothic architecture. 1980 ‘L. Black’ Eve of Wedding ii. 14 A huge red-brick mansion on three floors, heavy Victorian Gothic, a massive door in the centre of the front façade, leaded windows. Victorian-Italianate adj. designating a style of architecture revived in the nineteenth century in imitation of that of the Italian Renaissance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > mock-Georgian, -Victorian, or -Renaissance pseudo-Georgian1905 neo-Georgian1933 Victorianized1946 Victorian-Italianate1963 1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 97 The public buildings are mostly in Victorian-Italianate style, pillared and porticoed; painted white, or in Edinburgh-rock colours. 1982 S. Radley Talent for Destruction vi. 40 The Victorian Italianate tower of the town hall. Derivatives Vicˈtorianist n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > Victorian era > student or advocate of Victorianist1970 1970 Guardian 1 Oct. 11/8 Gillian Avery is an eminent Victorianist. She has written..neo-Victorian children's books.., she has edited a series of Victorian revivals. 1974 Times 22 Apr. 14/3 I amused myself by guessing which fellow-passengers were members of the Victorian Society. The man opposite..did not quite fit my vision of a Victorianist. 1982 UCT Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) Oct. 68 Writing as a Classicist and Victorianist, Jenkyns shows the enormous extent to which Hellenism influenced the generations of Victorians between about 1832 and the First World War. Vicˈtorianize v. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > historical periods [verb (intransitive)] > make Victorian in style Victorianize1905 the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > historical periods [verb (transitive)] > render medieval, Tudor, or Victorian Gothicize1808 medievalize1854 Victorianize1905 Tudorize1986 1905 Speaker 8 Apr. 32/2 They Victorianise his [Bunyan's] spelling and parade his Calvinism on shiny paper. 1940 Burlington Mag. Apr. 127/2 The church had been so thoroughly ‘Victorianised’ that the discovery was all the more unexpected. 1979 Guardian 3 Sept. 2/5 The building is unusually well preserved because it was never Victorianised or modernised. Vicˈtorianized adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > mock-Georgian, -Victorian, or -Renaissance pseudo-Georgian1905 neo-Georgian1933 Victorianized1946 Victorian-Italianate1963 1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure ii. 27 The gatehouse of Butley..owes its renaissance from a Victorianized ruin to a lovely house, full of medieval grace, to Dr Montague Rendall. 1976 I. Murdoch Henry & Cato i. 47 The tall Victorianized sash windows, which also served as doors, reached down to the ground. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Victorianadj.3n.2 A. adj.3 Of or belonging to, native to Victoria in Australia.From the late 19th cent. occurring in a number of plant-names, as Victorian dogwood, Victorian laurel, Victorian lilac, Victorian parsnip ( Trachymene australis (Miller)). Victorian pepper n. = pepper tree n. 1, Tasmannia aromatica (Miller Plant-n.); also Tasmanian pepper. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [adjective] > parts of Vandemonian1840 Victorian1857 1857–65 (title) The Victorian Hansard; containing the debates..of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Colony of Victoria. 1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 787/1 The Victorian samples [of wheat] at the last Great Exhibition ranked amongst the very best. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 449 Eucalyptus globulus... [Called] ‘Tasmanian’ or ‘Victorian Blue Gum’ from the colour of its foliage. B. n.2 A native or inhabitant of Victoria. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of bushboya1834 Melbournite1838 Melburnian1838 bushman1846 Vandemonian1852 scrubber1859 Queenslander1860 Victorian1862 Sydneysider1865 Centralian1875 Waler1880 Territorian1882 mutton-bird1892 bushy1896 sand-groper1896 tothersider1896 crow-eater1899 Bananalander1900 outbacker1900 Tassie1905 groper1924 Tasmanian1934 mutton-bird eater1941 Top-Ender1941 Kanakalander1945 1862 Temple Bar Sept. 286 The Victorians went pluckily in for their second innings. 1883 R. E. N. Twopeny Town Life in Austral. 41 The Victorians have a much greater love of show than any of their fellow-Australians. 1901 A. W. Jose Australasia x. 152 They are men of Melbourne, Brisbane, or Adelaide rather than Victorians or Queenslanders. 1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger v. 47 All in the carriage were staunch Victorians, and his scathing references to the climate of Sydney were greeted with approval. 1973 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 26 Aug. 28/2 It's 41 years since Phar Lap died, but he lives on with a new generation of Victorians. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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