单词 | adscript |
释义 | adscriptn.adj. A. n. 1. Geometry. A circumscribed or inscribed line, esp. a tangent of a curve. Now rare and historical. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > line > [noun] > tangent touchline1551 adscript1636 tangent1655 focal tangent1706 semi-tangent1823 tractor1867 bitangent1873 slope1889 1636 W. Bedwell tr. P. de la Ramée Via Regia ad Geometriam i. 12 But the use of adscription of a rectilineall and circle, shall hereafter manifest singular and notable mysteries by the reason and meanes of adscripts. 1722 G. Mackenzie Lives Writers Sc. Nation III. 520 To these Tables of Sines, Bressius added the Table of Natural Tangents, which he call'd Adscripts. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Adscripts, sometimes used for the tangents of arcs. 2005 J. Stedall in N. Malcolm & J. Stedall John Pell (1611–1685) & his Corr. Sir Charles Cavendish ii. 255 The asscripts, or adscripts, of a circle are inscribed or circumscribed lines, that is, sines or tangents. 2. An adscript feudal serf (see sense B. 1). Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > serfdom > [noun] > serf > types of villein regardant1443 helot1579 regardant1646 scallagc1700 borderer1771 bordar1776 mainmortable1779 native (or villein) of stock1828 Penest1835 adscript1837 1837 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xiii. 148 Not only destitute of political franchises, but were adscripts to the soil. 1880 Amer. Mag. 9 522/1 [He] prohibited the public exposure of serfs for sale in the market, directing that they should be sold only in connection with the lands of which they were adscripts. 1915 Coal Age 8 304 A coal company is an adscript, attached to the soil. It can only get its product where it owns a coal property. 1971 Jrnl. Econ. & Social Hist. Orient 14 36 The peasants were thus adscripts upon land set aside for the benefit of the whole Muslim community. 1997 Jrnl. Lat. Amer. Stud. 29 560 (note) The ‘peons’..on the farms [of 1831] are ‘adscripts’..by Law, and cannot abandon their patrons even if their debts are paid. 3. A comment or note added to a manuscript, esp. one which in error becomes incorporated into the text. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > comment or note comment1509 annotation1528 note1532 scholium1535 scholy1535 adversaria1571 commentation1579 scholion1579 notation1587 paraphrase1615 remark1629 notelet1834 adscript1889 1889 W. G. Rutherford Thucydides IV p. xl Adscripts combined with glosses may modify the whole structure of a sentence. 1898 F. Blass Philol. of Gospels 161 The record of its original place must have been preserved..by some adscript ..Here comes in the passage on the adulteress. 1929 E. Lobel in Classical Q. 23 78 A very large number of marginal or interlinear adscripts have made their way into the text of Ac. 1987 R. Sorabji Philoponus & Rejection of Aristotelian Sci. viii. 154 Codex Parisinus 1914 (twelfth-century) has an adscript by a later hand. B. adj. 1. Of a feudal serf: hereditarily attached to an estate, and transferred with it. Also in figurative context.Earliest in glebe-adscript, rendering Latin adscriptus glebae (see note in etymology). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > serfdom > [adjective] > attached to land or manor regardant1443 adscriptitious1769 adscript?1794 adscripted1878 ?1794 J. H. Lawrence Ess. Nair Syst. Gallantry & Inheritance 30 Why shood marriage bind them tu a spot, the charms of which, like the garden ov Eden, may vanish, and leave them the glebe-adscript cultivators ov a desert? 1822 Edinb. Rev. 32 291 Consider the men as being in some measure adscript to the glebe. 1894 W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1893 p. xviii You came more and more to make the theatre of the past your province; I remained ‘adscript’ to the theatre of the present. 1902 R. Kipling Just So Stories 135 Adscript serfs, holding the reversion of a scraped marrow-bone under heriot. 2004 N. Lindstrom Early Spanish Amer. Narr. i. 21 The situation of the Indians on these lands was legally analogous to that of European and Russian serfs, who were adscript to the soil. 2. Written after; opposed to subscript. Chiefly in iota adscript (cf. iota subscript at iota n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [adjective] > letter according to position capitala1382 heada1387 final1530 initial1622 principial1625 subscript1683 mediala1749 superscript1793 adscript1812 epenthetic1831 epenthesized1880 non-final1896 1812 Monthly Rev. July 244 We should not be overwhelmed with his tedious and unsatisfactory defence of his orthographical innovations; of his using the iota adscript instead of subscript. 1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians & Philemon 317 The iota adscript was still written. 1886 Amer. Jrnl. Archæol. 2 349 Iota is adscript in datives. 1955 B. A. van Groningen Short Man. Greek Palaeogr. 53 We may also consider the iota adscript or subscript as a prosodic mark, because it was no longer pronounced in the last two millennia. 2004 W. A. Johnson Bookrolls & Scribes in Oxyrhynchus ii. 22 In all three rolls iota-adscript is written by the usual rules. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1636 |
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