单词 | childhead |
释义 | childheadn. a. = childhood n. 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > quality of childhoodlOE childheada1325 childishness1526 childlikeness1744 bread-and-butterishness1843 childlinessa1846 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2652 We sulen nu witen for it dede Ðis witterlike or in child-hede. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 26 (MED) Prayng hym for his chyldhede þat he wold haue mercy on hor. ?1526 G. Hervet tr. Erasmus De Immensa Dei Misericordia sig. K Howe longe wyl ye loue childhed lytell babes, and foles, couet thynges noyfull to them, and vndiscrete hate counnyng? 1854 S. T. Dobell Balder iii. 11 The unconscious child, Tho' for his childhead he be special child, Is universal man. b. = childhood n. 2b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > actions or habits of childhoodc1330 childhead1340 pueriles1576 childness1823 short-frock1885 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [noun] > instance of childhoodc1330 childhead1340 puerilityc1475 boytry?1542 childishness1587 babism1610 youthfullity1763 babyism1806 baby act1865 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 207 Þet lyeseþ hare time..ine fole pleȝes, ine childhedes, ine liȝthedes, ine zonges. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 12577 (MED) Mony are his childehedes..Done ar he were twelue ȝeer olde. 2. = childhood n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood childhoodOE childheadc1330 bairnheid1393 enfauncec1400 puerice1481 puerility1512 childage1548 childishness1597 leading-string1677 impuberty1785 cap and feather days1822 bairnhooda1835 child-life1841 pupillarity1846 tunic-hood1859 bread-and-butterhood1869 preadolescence1907 latency1910 puerilism1925 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 5559 (MED) He was mi norri Fram childehed. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28500 In mi child-hede haf i wroght Many thyng þat i aght noght. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 49 To syngen and to rede As smale children doon in hir childhede. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes (1937) i. xxii. 79 From theyre chyldhede..men taughte hem the vse of armes. a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 201 Richert that deit in his childheid. 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Kijv It [sc. Poesie] was bot in the infancie and chyldheid. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 173 b Fra my childheid pietie grew with me. 1608 O. van Veen Cupids Epist. in Emblem Bks., Epigrams, & Formal Satires, 1500–1850 109 Chyldhead, youth, mid-age, & old age is arryued. Ruled in each degree by cours of tyme and tyde. 1731 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 446/2 Miss Kitty, by her Mamma bred, From her Childhead to Devotion: Tho' Fair, yet vow'd she ne'er wou'd wed. 1837 G. Home Mem. Aristocrat ii. 75 This lady had never married, but throughout life, I may say, from childhead to old age, she had kept house with the youngest of the two sons of young Griphard. 1960 Troy (N.Y.) Record 9 May 18/2 Betty, a performer since childhead, couldn't resist the lure of show biz and returned to the profession. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1325 |
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