单词 | zoography |
释义 | zoographyn. 1. a. The description of animals and their characteristics, descriptive zoology; a work containing descriptions of animals. Cf. phytography n. 1. In early use also: †description of something or someone as an animal (obsolete). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > zoology > [noun] > descriptive zoography1593 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 97 When men play the parts of beasts, let them go among the numbers of cattel in Zoography and keepe their fit place. 1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix 65 We are now come to that rare piece of Zoography of thine, the world drawn out in the shape of an Animal. 1671 L. Addison W. Barbary 99 But intending no Zoography, I pass from this [sc. the camel] and other Tame Quadrupeds, to observe that Barbary hath all sorts of Beasts that are called Wild. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Ep. Ded. 8 All we could agree upon would be, that Clouds there were, but that I was grosly mistaken in the Zoography and Topography of them. 1777 Beauties Nat. Hist. p. xiii While taste is pleased with elegance, and the heart susceptible of sympathy, the study of Zoography must be interesting. 1841 Monthly Rev. Mar. 314 The zoography of Pallas (completed in 1811, and first published in 1831), has been considerably augmented by Eichwald. 1865 Nat. Hist. Rev. July 352 With regard to species and groups of species, (a) their complete description or Zoography; (b) their systematic arrangement or Taxonomy. 1972 E. Miner John Dryden 255 Natural history is itself treated sacredly, partly as in such sacred zoögraphies as the Historia Animalium Sacra of Franzius. 2001 A. Moyal Platypus 28 Péron's great plan for a separate volume on the zoography of the voyage also failed to win the support of the authorities. b. The geographical distribution of animals; the branch of science dealing with this; = zoogeography n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > zoology > [noun] > specific aspects or disciplines tetrapodology1764 zoophysiology1803 animal science1819 zoochemistry1835 animal psychology1838 marine zoology1840 palaeozoology1843 zoogeography1851 cainozoology1861 zoography1869 ethology1874 zoophysics1887 neontology1889 zoopraxography1891 ethnozoology1899 behavioural scientist1940 zoosemiotics1963 1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 215 Of like importance is Dr. Smitt's voluminous synopsis of the Arctic and boreal Bryozoa, which..has established, I believe, this part of zoögraphy on quite a new base. 1896 Science 10 July 56/2 The subject of separation or isolation in its bearings on geology and zoography is discussed by A. E. Ortmann. 1946 T. Barbour Naturalist's Scrapbk. vi. 109 Admitted that zoography and phytogeography are by no means to be considered as being one and the same science. 1999 Jrnl. Zoo & Wildlife Med. 30 361/2 Local zoography may be better predicted with more accurate estimates of local reproductive parameters. 2. The depiction in painting or art of animals or living creatures. Also (chiefly with specific allusion to ancient Greek or Latin): pictorial art in general. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > painting of animals zoography1656 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > pictorial representation portraiturea1393 portrayc1415 picture?a1439 similitudea1450 depicture?a1513 zography1570 picturing1585 description1590 delineament1593 delineation1594 delineature1611 depiction1688 zoography1814 portrayal1847 depicturing1850 depicturementa1866 pictorialism1869 depicting1885 pictorialization1901 picturization1913 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Zoography..the painting or picturing of beasts. 1814 Monthly Mag. 1 June 406/1 The earlier writers on art,..who flourished before the age of Trajan and the Antonines, constantly entitle their books on zoographers, on zoography—this was their only usual denomination for painting, as if still life did not merit the name. 1865 C. Hole Brief Biogr. Dict. 123 Daniell, Wm., R.A. Artist. (Zoögraphy; Oriental Scenery). 1951 Manch. Guardian Weekly 1 Sept. 4 Zoography... On most fine days students are to be seen trying to put the animals on paper. 1976 G. C. Spivak tr. J. Derrida Of Grammatol. ii. iv. 292 Here painting—zoography—betrays being and speech, words and things themselves because it freezes them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1593 |
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