单词 | filial |
释义 | filialadj. 1. Of or pertaining to a son or daughter. a. Of sentiments, duty, etc.: Due from a child to a parent. filial fear n. see fear n. 3d. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > due from child to parent filial1393 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ix. 216 Ys no final [v.r. filial] loue with þis folke. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 700/1 Christen people receiue the spirit of feliall loue. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 306 Disciplin'd..from servil fear To filial . View more context for this quotation 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. vii. 494 James had hitherto treated his mother with filial respect. 1834 H. Martineau Demerara (new ed.) xii Now her filial cares were ended. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) II. xi. 67 The filial piety of her children for poor auld Scotland. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > due to child filial1558 1558 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 175 I giue to my said Sonne Rob'rt in full contentacion & payment of his fyliall porcion..of all my goodes. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. xv. 121 At length corrected by the filiall Rod Of his offended (but his gracious God). 1795 G. Wythe Decis. Cases Virginia 6 The sum of the plaintiff Mary's filial portion. c. Of a relation, designation, etc.: Characteristic of a son or daughter. ΚΠ 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 150 The primitive Christians did..include this filial title of our Saviour together with his names into the compass of one word. 2. a. ‘Bearing the character or relation of a son or daughter’ (Johnson) Now only transferred and figurative of a thing: That is the offspring of something else. filial generation Biology, the offspring of a cross, the first filial (or F₁) generation being the immediate offspring of the organisms selected for crossing, the second filial (or F₂) generation being produced usually by self-fertilisation or intercrossing of F1 individuals, and so on. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] childly?a1475 childlike1582 filial1667 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > that is the offspring of filial1889 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > cross-breeding or hybridism > hybrid or cross mongrel1558 hybrid1601 centaur1606 mulatto1664 half-strain1673 cross1761 cross-breed1774 first cross1793 double-cross1810 quadroon1811 intercross1859 outcross1882 reciprocal1901 filial generation1902 monohybrid1902 vicinist1905 first filial (or F₁) generation1909 polyhybrid1910 back-cross1919 second filial (or F₂) generation1938 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 722 Thus the filial Godhead answering spake. View more context for this quotation 1709 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions 92 Where the old Myrtle her good Influence sheds, Sprigs of like Leaf erect their Filial Heads. a1711 T. Ken Psyche i, in Wks. (1721) IV. 185 Paternal God gave filial God to die. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 213 A collegiate-church, to which..belong four other filial churches. 1889 Times 13 Aug. 3/1 The size of the parent seed was reproduced in the filial seed. 1902 W. Bateson & E. R. Saunders Rep. to Evol. Comm. Royal Soc. No. 1. 160 The offspring of the first cross are the first filial generation F. Subsequent filial generations may be denoted by F2, F3, &c. 1909 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) i. 8 Mendel took a pair of varieties of which one was tall..and the other was dwarf... These two were then crossed together... In our modern terminology such a cross-bred, the first filial generation, is called F1. 1938 E. B. Ford Study Heredity ii. 30 If we cross a black bird with a white, all the offspring are grey... These are the ‘first filial’ generation of our cross. 1938 E. B. Ford Study Heredity ii. 30 If we mate the grey F1 birds with one another, we obtain a ‘second filial generation’ (F2). 1969 Dict. Gardening Suppl. (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) 454/2 The plants obtained in this first Hybrid Filial (F1) generation are all tall like one of the parents. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > having filial feeling filial1753 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. ii. 20 Your ever affectionate and filial friend. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] > off-shoot filiala1552 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VII. 48 The Body of the Cathedral Chyrch [in Carlisle] is of an older Building then the Quyer. And yt ys as a Filial deriveid from S. Oswald's fast by Pontfreyt. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 214 This church is a filial of the parish of St. Veit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1393 |
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