| 释义 |
feeless, a.|ˈfiːlɪs|
[f. fee n.2 + -less.]
Without a fee or fees; not bringing, paying, or yielding fees; not receiving fees.
1740Somerville Hobbinol ii. 260 In Shoals they come, Neglected feeless Clients. 1825Ld. Cockburn Mem. ii. 145 He could not tell a story without disclosing his power [i.e. of mimicry], a feeless faculty. 1848Lytton Harold vii. v, Feeless went he now from man to man. 1852Ld. Cockburn Jeffrey I. 179 His practice..included the whole of our Courts, Civil, Criminal, and even ecclesiastical, the most fee-less of them all. 1886Pall Mall G. 23 Sept. 2/1 There is any number of formalities to be gone through, the first of which consists in sending the fee-less child home. 1892Star 3 Aug. 1/6 Praiseworthy zeal for a feeless theatre. |