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mid world
†a. = middle earth (obs.).
b. An intermediate ‘world’ (in various applications of the word).
c1530tr. Erasmus' Serm. Child Jesus (1901) 8 Who is of wider imperye than he, whiche they in heuen magnifie, they in helle tremble at, this mydde worlde humbly worshyppeth..? 1853Lynch Self-Improv. iii. 61 Poetry is seen in him; and the mid world of feudality and chivalry shines around in a light soft and lustrous. 1898Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 3/2 The sombre desolation of the mid-world between the snows and the pastures. |