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gather [gather 词源字典]: gather: [OE] Gather goes back ultimately to Germanic *gath- ‘bring together, unite’ (which also produced English good). From it was derived *gadurī (source of English together), which in turn formed the basis of a verb *gadurōjan. Its offspring include Middle High German gaten ‘come together’, Old Frisian gadia ‘unite’, and Old English gaderian, whence modern English gather. It also produced German gatte ‘husband, spouse’, originally ‘companion’.
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Agatha: fem. proper name, from Latin, from Greek Agathe, fem. of agathos "good," which is of unknown origin. Never a popular name in U.S., and all but unused there since 1940.
agathism (n.): the doctrine that all things tend toward the good, 1830, from agathist + -ism.
agathist (n.): 1816, from Greek agathos "good" (see Agatha) + -ist.
Doctor Kearney, who formerly, with so much reputation, delivered lectures in this place on the history of Rome, observed to me once, that he was not an optimist, but an "agathist"; that he believed that every thing tended to good, but did not think himself competent to determine what was absolutely the best. The distinction is important, and seems to be fatal to the system of Optimism. [George Miller, "Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History," Dublin, 1816]
gather (v.): Old English gadrian, gædrian "unite, agree, assemble; gather, collect, store up" (transitive and intransitive), used of flowers, thoughts, persons; from Proto-Germanic *gaduron "come or bring together, unite" (cognates: Old English gæd "fellowship, companionship," gædeling "companion;" Middle Low German gadderen; Old Frisian gaderia; Dutch gaderen "to gather," gade "spouse;" German Gatte "husband;" Gothic gadiliggs), from PIE *ghedh- "to unite, join" (see good (adj.)). Change of spelling from -d- to -th- is 1500s, reflecting earlier change in pronunciation (as in mother, weather, father). Related: Gathered; gathering.
gather (n.): "plait or fold in cloth," 1660s, from gather (v.).
gatherer (n.): c. 1200, agent noun from gather.
gathering (n.): mid-12c., gadering, "an assembly of people, act of coming together," from late Old English gaderung "a gathering together, union, collection, assembly," verbal noun from gather (v.).
omnium gatherum: 1520s, "miscellaneous collection," humorous coinage from Latin omnium "of all" (genitive plural of omnis; see omni-) + Latinized form of English gather.
upgather (v.): also up-gather, 1580s, from verbal phrase, from up (adv.) + gather (v.). Related: Upgathered; upgathering.
wool-gathering (n.): also woolgathering, 1550s, "indulging in wandering fancies and purposeless thinking," from the literal meaning "gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.," an activity that necessitates much wandering to little purpose. See wool + gather.
megathere: "An extinct giant ground sloth; a megatherium", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Richard Owen (1804–1892), comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. From scientific Latin Megatherium megatherium with omission of the ending.
agathodemon: "A beneficent spirit or divinity, especially one manifested or depicted as a serpent or dragon", Mid 18th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Shaw (1694–1751), traveller. From (i) post-classical Latin agathodaemon kind of Egyptian serpent.
agathopoietic: "Intended to do good; of beneficent tendency", Late 18th cent.; earliest use found in Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher, jurist, and reformer. From ancient Greek ἀγαθός good + -poietic, after Hellenistic Greek ἀγαθοποιός doing good, beneficent.
agathodemonic: "Of or relating to an agathodemon; belonging to a beneficent spirit or divinity", Late 19th cent. From agathodemon + -ic, after German agathodämonisch.
agathokakological: "Composed of both good and evil", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Robert Southey (1774–1843), poet and reviewer. From ancient Greek ἀγαθός good + κακός bad + -logical.