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multiplicate (2)[multiplicate 词源字典]: "To make multiple copies of, to replicate", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in The Manufacturer and Builder. From classical Latin multiplicāt-, past participial stem of multiplicāre multiply, after duplicate, triplicate, etc.[multiplicate etymology, multiplicate origin, 英语词源]
metallograph: "An optical instrument for conducting research in metallography; a metallographical microscope; (occasionally) a photographic image produced by such an instrument", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language. From metallo- + -graph, after metallography.
maran: "A French breed of domestic fowl that lays large dark brown eggs; a fowl of this breed", 1930s. From French (race de) Marans from Marans, the name of a town in the department of Charente-Maritime in western France.
mensurate: "To measure; to ascertain the size, extent, or quantity of", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Richard Saunders. From post-classical Latin mensurat-, past participial stem of mensurare to measure, perhaps after mensuration.
moulin: "A vertical or nearly vertical shaft in a glacier, formed by surface water percolating through a crack in the ice", Mid 19th century: French, literally 'mill'.
miscellanea: "Miscellaneous items, especially literary compositions, that have been collected together", Late 16th century: from Latin, neuter plural of miscellaneus (see miscellaneous).
moulage: "A cast or impression, especially of a person or a part of the body; the process of making a cast or taking an impression; the material used for this", Early 20th cent.; earliest use found in Encyclopaedia Britannica. From French moulage act of moulding something, action of taking an impression (of something) in order to create a mould, reproduction made by taking an impression from mouler + -age.
misprize: "Fail to appreciate the value of (something); undervalue", Late 15th century: from Old French mesprisier, from mes- 'wrongly' + prisier 'estimate the value of'.
Mirandize: "Inform (a person who has been arrested) of their legal rights, in accordance with the Miranda decision", 1970s: from Miranda².
melo: "= melodrama", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), poet. Shortened from melodrama, perhaps after French mélo.
matrilinear: "= matrilineal", Early 20th cent.; earliest use found in The Manchester Guardian. From matri- + linear, perhaps by confusion with the earlier matrilineal.
macte: "Expressing approval, encouragement, or good will: ‘all praise to you!’, ‘well done!’, ‘bravo!’; ‘good luck!’", Late 16th cent.; earliest use found in Gabriel Harvey (c1552–1631), scholar and writer. From classical Latin macte, vocative of mactus honoured, extolled (used, frequently in fixed phrases, with estō may you be, either expressed or implicit), probably the past participle of an unrecorded verb *magere, cognate with magnus great.
manifolding: "The production of multiple copies of a document, etc., especially mechanically", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in The Daily News.
Moraxella: "A genus of Gram-negative bacteria (family Neisseriaceae) inhabiting the mucous membranes of mammals and causing infections of the middle ear, respiratory tract, and conjunctiva; specifically a subgenus of this genus comprising rod-shaped bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; (also moraxella) a bacterium of this genus", 1940s. From scientific Latin Moraxella from the name of Victor Morax, Swiss ophthalmologist, who discovered the bacteria + classical Latin -ella).
mala fides: "Bad faith; intent to deceive", Latin.
mamillated: "Covered with rounded protuberances", Mid 18th century: from mamilla + the adjectival suffix -ated.
manifolder: "A typeface suitable for manifolding", Early 20th cent.; earliest use found in Funk's Standard Dictionary. From manifold + -er.
minidisk: "(A virtual disk consisting of) a logical partition of a larger disk, especially on a mainframe computer", 1970s; earliest use found in IBM Systems Journal. From mini- + disc.
mauvaise foi: "In the existentialist philosophy of Sartre: the self-deception practised by a person who wishes to avoid absolute responsibility for his or her own actions by not recognizing that human beings have free will and that no relationship is genuinely mutual. Also (in extended use): bad faith, disingenuousness", 1940s. From French mauvaise foi, lit. ‘bad faith’ from mauvaise, feminine of mauvais bad + foi faith.
mid-afternoon: "The middle of the afternoon", Late Middle English; earliest use found in Medical Recipes. From mid + afternoon adverb interjection. Compare earlier midovernoon.