| 释义 |
† metropolie Obs.
[? irreg. ad. L. mētropolis; some writers may have intended metropolies for a Latin plural.]
= metropolis.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. ii. xiv, The whole Isle, parted in three regiments, By three Metropolies is joyntly sway'd. Ibid. ii. xxiii, This low regions Metropolie. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. ii. v. (1636) 19 The Metropolies and Arch-bishoprickes..belonging to the Patriarch of Constantinople. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 184 The Towns..were Metropolies of Kingdoms, not Country Towns. |