单词 | voisinage |
释义 | † voisinagen. Obsolete. 1. The fact of being neighbouring or near. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] sideOE nighnessOE propinquity?a1425 neighboured1440 neighbourshipc1485 nearnessc1545 vicinity1560 neighbourhood1567 proximity1579 affinity1612 appropinquity1646 voisinage1665 vicinage1686 proximation1802 proximateness1881 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 283 Erzirum is a Town of great strength..and by reason of its voicinage to the Persian Dominions usually made the place of rendezvous, when the Turks have any design against that Empire. 1681 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 2nd Pt. i. 203 Worcester and Glocester had been united, by reason of their Voicinage. 2. a. The neighbourhood; the adjoining district. ΚΠ 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy xxi. 114 All the Presbyters that came from Ephesus and the voisinage. 1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική Ep. Ded. 5 I had no Books of my own here, nor any in the voisinage. 1673 H. Stubbe Further Iustification War against Netherlands 4 We in the City and Country do repine, complain and rage, till the whole Voisinage prove Male-content. 1678 Sancroft in Bp. Wake Charge (1706) 43 Three Priests.., who are of the Voisinage where the Person testified of, resides. b. The neighbourhood of a place. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > that which or one who is near > a near place > neighbourhood (of a place) vicinagea1325 neighbourhoodc1450 precincts1479 neighboured1555 verge1641 adjacency1646 voisinage1649 environsc1660 vicinity1781 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 2 There hapned to be a marriage in Cana of Galilee in the voisinage of his dwelling. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. i. iv. Rule 2 §13 It occasioned the death of all the little babes in the city and voisinage of Bethlehem. 1720 Bibliotheca Biblica I. 415 A City came to be built in the Voisinage of this Holy Place. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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