| 单词 | fair-filed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfair-filed In senses of the verb: chiefly figurative of speech, etc.: Polished, smooth, neatly finished off or elaborated; fine (now rare). Also with defining word prefixed as fair-filed, true-filed adjs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > refined or cultured polite?a1500 fileda1533 facetious1542 exquisited1581 refined1582 smooth1589 perpolite1592 terse1628 washed1628 refine1646 parliamentary1789 literary1793 urbane1800 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) ci. sig. D*iiii Thy tong is fayre fyled. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome ii. f. 22v Their eloquence, and filed tongue. 1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. ¶.iiv That fyled phrase. 1578 T. Proctor Lover approv. Lady Unkinde in Gorgious Gallery Your Phrases fine philed, did force mee agree. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 379/2 Take filed Iron. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 328 We goe not about with filed speech and rich rewards to circumuent thee. 1623 B. Jonson in W. Shakespeare Comedies, Hist. & Trag. sig. A4v In his well torned, and true-filed lines. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. vii. 174 Thou hast a better filed tongue than either Crevecœur or I. 1888 P. N. Hasluck Mech. Workshop Handybk. 87 With regard to finishing filed work. 1892 Nation 4 Aug. 88/3 Mr. Aldrich's filed lines..show his even power. < as lemmas |
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