单词 | afterling |
释义 | afterlingn. 1. A person who or thing which comes later; a follower; a descendant.In quot. c1275: (probably) an underling, a subordinate. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [noun] lowerc1175 afterlingc1275 smalla1325 nethererc1443 undermana1661 lowlife1712 vulgar1763 vulgarian1809 rank outsider1869 low man on the totem1956 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9539 Þenne nabbeoð ure æfterlinges [c1300 Otho onderlinges] nane up-breidinges. 1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 47 The First of vs..left vs Afterlings nothing. a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 139 Gregory the Greate did close their rings The worst of all before; yet best therein Of th'afterlings. 1877 tr. in Dublin Rev. Oct. 476 [He was] an afterling of the speculative Romanticism. 1889 C. E. Barns Solitarius to his Dæmon 125 Circumstances are the afterlings of great deeds, and do not herald them. 1902 tr. Eccl. Rec. State N.Y. III. 1947 It is but one of those afterlings which do not invalidate what preceded. 1922 G. Calderon Cromwell i, in Three Plays & Pantomime 210 The first Apostles of the Church Walked without scrip or wallet; Peter hungered, But Peter's afterlings grow fat. 1992 D. F. Krell Daimon Life 20 He [sc. Heidegger] calls mortals die Nachkömmlinge. Mortals are the ‘afterlings’ with respect to daimons, a ‘posterity’ in ‘posteriority’. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains reliquiesOE rest?a1475 offals1538 reliquiae1582 relicts1598 afterlings1613 stoundings1650 extantsa1658 1613 R. B. Yong Mans Gleanings 48 Reserue the heate of the day for the Lords vineyard, let not him haue the afterlings. 1642 J. Goodwin Irelands Advocate 6 Now Paul..may be said to fulfill, or fill up..the remainders or wantings, or afterlings (as it were) of the sufferings of Christ. 1674 T. Hardcastle Christian Geogr. & Arithm. 94 It is a disgraceing of the things of God, to present them with the small reliques, and stale afterlings of your time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1275 |
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