单词 | castilian |
释义 | † castiliann.1 Obsolete. One living in or belonging to a castle; one of the garrison of a castle. Applied e.g. to those who held the Castle of St. Andrews in 1547, and frequent during the civil war of the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > member of garrison castilian1587 old fogey1785 1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. 412/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II In which action also the adverse part forgot not to requite the castillians. 1649 Jrnl. Siege of Pontefract Cast. 106 We were upon treaty with the castillians. c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 146 Now the name of Cavallier was no more rememb'red, Castillian being the terme of reproach with which they branded all the Governor's friends. 1837 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. VI. i. 9 The Castilians sent an envoy to Henry the Eighth..declaring that their only object was to gain time to revictual the castle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). Castilianadj.n.2 1. Of or pertaining to Castile; a native of Castile; the language of that province, hence, standard Spanish, as distinct from any provincial dialect. ΘΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Spaniards > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Spain > parts of Catalan1480 Gallego1596 Gadite1607 Andalusian1612 Asturian1612 Galician1749 Valencian1769 Castilian1779 Manchego1779 Catalonian1781 Aragonese1823 Manchegan1846 Leonese1865 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Iberian peninsula and islands > [adjective] > Spain > parts of Spain Asturian1612 Celtiberian1614 Andalusian1615 Cantabrian1642 Catalonian1707 Valencia1794 Manchego1828 Castilian1829 Sevillian1830 Andorran1837 Manchegan1841 Gallegan1845 Leonese1845 Granadine1865 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Spanish > varieties of Cantabrian1797 Aragonese1823 Bable1841 Castilian1860 Andalusian1887 Asturian1887 Leonese1887 ladino1889 Judezmo1942 Galician1960 1779 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xlii. 369 The old Castillians are laborious. 1829 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Godefridus xviii. 219 Willing to adopt the Castilian maxim, that ‘every man is the son of his own works’. 1860 All Year Round 11 Aug. 419 The Castilian is driving all the provincial idioms of Spain from the field. 1867 M. E. Herbert Impress. Spain 122 Whose pure Castilian accent made his Spanish perfectly intelligible. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Spanish coins > gold Castilian1555 doubloon1622 maravedi1643 dobla1829 morabitino1909 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 209 Barres of golde..of such byggenesse that sum of them way more then two hundreth Castilians [1577 Castelan] or ducades of golde. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. ix. 500 Two hundred thousand castellanos of gold went down in the ships with Bobadilla.] 3. Castilian furnace n. a lead-smelting furnace first used in Spain (but invented by an Englishman named Goundry), which is specially adapted for the treatment of ores of low produce. It is arranged so as to run off a constant stream of slag into cast-iron wagons which succeed each other as they are filled. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > for roasting or calcining ores > for lead ore ore hearth1612 bole1670 Castilian furnace1875 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 62. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 74 The slag-hearth..might in many cases be advantageously exchanged for the Castilian furnace. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.11587adj.n.21555 |
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