| DATE | WORD | MEANING | COMMENT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1610 | art | "skill in creative arts" 1610s; especially of painting, sculpture, etc., from 1660s. | Assoc: symbol becomes restricted to a few activities as a reaction to new narrow notion of science |
| Latin > French 1787 > English 1789 | carbonem > charbone >carbon | " charcoal" > "non-metallic element of periodic table"(1789) | Assoc: with a pure chemical substance rather than with heat and combustion. |
| 1590s | change | "something substituted for something else" (1590s) "a different situation" (1680s.) | Assoc: less with general action of universe and more with specific situations |
| Late 14C | cool | "to lose warmth," from the root of cool (adj.). Meaning "to cause to lose warmth" is from late 14c. | Assoc: less with state of lack of warmth and more with causing loss of warmth |
| Late 14C | conserver > conserve | "to keep, preserve, keep intact, guard," | Assoc with all manner of stewardship; civic practice |
| Anglo-French 1755 | conservacie > conservacy > conservancy | "commission with jurisdiction over a port or river," (1755) > "official preservation of undeveloped land" (1859) | Assoc: less with general stewardship and more with |
| Late 14C French>English | conservacioun > conservation | "preservation of one's health and soundness," > "preservation of existing conditions" in any sense is (mid-15c.) > " English municipal authorities who had charge of rivers, sewers, forests, fisheries, etc." (late 15c) | Assoc: less with general civic practice and more with commercial process |
| 1790s | "Le Conservateur" > conservative | Describing Edmund Burke's opposition to the French Revolution (1790s) > name of a British political faction (1830) It replaced "Tory" by 1843, | Assoc: less with stewardship in general and more with feudal rich class |
| Late Old English | ofdune > down | "downwards," | Assoc: with lowering movement; decreasing height |
| 1500s | economy | "household management, thrift," > "frugality, judicious use of resources" (1660s). Also wealth and resources of a country" (1650s) | Assoc: less with personal thrift, frugality and stewardship and more with national industrial processes |
| 1500s | economic | "practiced in the management of a household or family" > "pertaining to management of a household," (1590s) >"relating to the science of economics" (1835) | Assoc: less with personal stewardship and more with state of national exchange systems. |
| Middle French > English | économiste > economist | 1580s, "household manager,"> "student of political economy" (1804) | Assoc: less with personal stewardship and more with study of national exchange systems. |
| 1640s | electricity | charges created from friction | Assoc: imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of a material |
| 1600 | electricus 1600 > electric (1640) | "resembling amber" i.e. force created by rubbing amber (1600) > "charged with electricity" (1670s) | Assoc: less with static electrical changes and more with electrical currents |
| 1630s | electricus > electrical | "giving off electricity when rubbed," (1630s) > "relating to electricity, run by electricity" (1746) | Assoc: less with static electrical changes and more with electrical currents |
| Late Latin, Middle French | energia > énergie 16C > energy | "force of expression,"" vis viva" Late 17C > "energy" 1807 | Assoc: universal force or action |
| c1600 | environment | "state of being environed" c.1600 "the aggregate of the conditions in which a person or thing lives" 1827 | Assoc: (local) forces acting on an individual;that which is not human being; Individual is distinct from surroundings. |
| 1590s | form | "systematic or orderly arrangement" 1590s | Assoc: less with universal notion of shape and more with perceived systematic arrangement |
| c.1500 | generate | "to beget" | Assoc: to produce |
| 1660s | greenhouse also known as a "conservatory" | green + house | Assoc: great prestige and wealth; human structure for controlling microclimate; growing exotic plants out of season |
| 1500s | potential (adj); also later a noun) | "possible" (as opposed to actual) late 14c | Assoc: non actual. (Aristotle's concept) |
| 1817 | potential (noun) | " that which is possible" | Assoc: that which is possible |
| 1850s | potential energy | energy stored in an object due to its position in a force field | Assoc: with non action rather than action, contrast to "actual energy" |
| 1850's | power (noun) | "ability; ability to act or do; strength, vigor, might," > measure of rate work is done | Assoc: measurement of the rate energy is manifest |
| 1530s | power (verb) | "make powerful" (1530s) >"to supply with power," 1898 | Assoc: reticulated electrical products. |
| 1610s | resource | "means of supplying a want or deficiency (1610s ) > Resources "a country's wealth" 1779 | Assoc: anything activity seen to add wealth to the British Crown regardless of consequences |
| Late 14C | science | "collective human knowledge" (especially "that gained by systematic observation, experiment, and reasoning) >"body of regular or methodical observations or propositions concerning a particular subject or speculation" (1725) | Assoc: less as philosophy/ profound moral way of being and more as simply an amoral way of thinking |
| 1670s | science | "non-arts studies" 1670s; non-philosophy 1833 | Assoc: antithesis of arts, philosophy |
| 1827 | trace | "vestiges" > "indication of minute presence in some chemical compound"1827 | Assoc: minute quantities of a substance. |
| c1600 | transformer | "one who or that which transforms," c1600 > "device to reduce electrical currents" 1882 | Assoc: less universal transformation and more specific to an electrical device |
| 1500s | warm | "make warm", "become warm;" | Assoc : action of maintaining thermal flow |
| c1400 | warm-up | of persons (c1400) > of food (1848) >"exercise before an activity." (1868) | Assoc: raising the temperature of an object |
| 1737 | up | "to move upward" (1737) | Assoc: change of position or state |
Enjoy true hope- the experience of sustaining potential