| 单词 | civil-spoke |
| 释义 | > as lemmascivil-spoke C1. Uses of the adverb to form parasynthetic compounds and preceding past participles to form adjectives, as civil-mannered, civil-spoke, civil-spoken, civil-tongued, etc. ΚΠ a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnn/2 The people they shew brave too, civill manner'd. 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 42 Till civil-suited Morn appeer. 1776 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions IV. lxxii. 46 She seems a civil spoken woman. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xiv He was a very ‘close’ man, as well as a ‘civil-spoken’. 1882 Harper's Mag. May 930/1 At all events, you were civil-mannered then, Kitty. 1910 J. Farnol Broad Highway ii. ii. 202 ‘What might you be wanting with a peaceable, civil-spoke cove like me?’ he inquired. 2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 6 Feb. d10 White-haired, always civil-tongued, he has the bearing of a country gentleman. < as lemmas |
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