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parcenary [parcenary 词源字典]: "Joint heirship; = coparcenary", Late Middle English; earliest use found in Domesday Ipswich. From Anglo-Norman parcenerie, parcenarie and Old French parsonerie, parsenerie, Old French, Middle French parçonerie (1200; compare French regional (Normandy) personnerie, (Jersey) parchonnerie association) from parçon + -erie, after parçonier; compare -ery, -ary.[parcenary etymology, parcenary origin, 英语词源]
paysage: "A landscape, especially as depicted in art", French, literally 'countryside', from pays 'country'.
pavid: "Fearful, timid", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Blount (1618–1679), antiquary and lexicographer. From classical Latin pavidus frightened, fearful from pavēre to be frightened + -idus.
pensée: "A thought or reflection put into literary form; an aphorism", French.
props: "Due respect", 1990s: from proper respect.
platitudinarian: "Characterized by platitude; tending to use platitudes", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Lynch (1818–1871), hymn writer and composer. From platitude + -in- + -arian, after e.g. latitudinarian, latitudinarian. With use as adjective compare slightly earlier platitudinary.
pyridine: "A colourless volatile liquid with an unpleasant odour, present in coal tar and used chiefly as a solvent", Mid 19th century: from Greek pur 'fire' + -ide + -ine⁴.
parvis: "An enclosed area in front of a cathedral or church, typically surrounded with colonnades or porticoes", Late Middle English: from Old French, based on late Latin paradisus 'paradise', in the Middle Ages denoting a court in front of St Peter's, Rome.
poudrette: "Manure made from dried and powdered human excrement, usually mixed with another substance such as charcoal or gypsum", Mid 18th cent.; earliest use found in Philip Miller (1691–1771), horticulturist and writer. From French poudrette, specifically sense of poudrette very fine dust.
prest: "A payment or wages in advance; money paid on account to enable a person to proceed with an undertaking", Late Middle English. From Anglo-Norman and Middle French prest (French prêt) action of putting a thing at a person's disposal, action of lending, a thing lent, an advance of money, money allocated in advance to soldiers and non-commissioned officers for petty expenses, wages paid in advance, in Anglo-Norman also alms, a gift from prester.
poikilo-: "Variegated", From Greek poikilos 'variegated, varied'.
pute: "A prostitute", Late Middle English; earliest use found in The Wycliffite Bible (early version). From Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French pute, use as noun of feminine of put (adjective) base, vile, bad (1100; French regional (eastern) peut bad, ugly) from classical Latin pūtidus. Compare Old Occitan puta, Catalan puta, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Italian putta.
putamen: "The outer part of the lentiform nucleus of the brain", Late 19th century: from Latin, literally 'shell remaining after pruning'.
peery: "A child’s spinning top", Mid 17th century: from peer (Scots spelling of pear) + -y¹.
polylemma: "†( Logic ) a complex syllogism which involves more than two alternatives ( obsolete ); (also more generally) a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between more than two unfavourable alternatives", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in William S. Hamilton (1788–1856), philosopher.
par avion: "By airmail (written on a letter or parcel to indicate how it is to reach its destination)", French, literally 'by aeroplane'.
pseudomonas: "A bacterium which occurs in soil and detritus, including a number that are pathogens of plants or animals", Modern Latin, from pseudo- 'false' + monas 'monad'.
pill coater: "A machine for coating pills", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Edward H. Knight (1824–1883).
postiche: "A hairpiece", Early 18th century: from French, literally 'false', from Italian posticcio 'counterfeit, feigned'.
praxeology: "The branch of knowledge that deals with the nature of human action, especially in later use as understood in economic theory by the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) and his followers", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Presbyterian Review. From ancient Greek πρᾶξις + -ology, partly after French praxéologie.