单词 | forebear |
释义 | forebearn. (Originally Scottish) An ancestor, forefather, progenitor (usually more remote than a grandfather). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] elder-fathereOE fatherOE elder971 alderOE eldfatherOE forme-fadera1200 ancestorc1300 grandsirec1300 aiela1325 belsirea1325 predecessora1325 forefather1377 morea1382 progenitorc1384 antecessorc1400 forn-fatherc1460 forebear1488 ancient1540 antecestrec1550 fore-grandsirec1550 grandfather1575 ascendant1604 forerunnera1616 ancienter1654 tupuna1845 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 21 His forbearis..Of hale lynage and trew lyne of Scotland. 1578–1600 in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 159 For in this seiknes I was borne And my forebeerars me beforne. 1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Pref. ⁋17 Looke back a little to this outworne dialect of our forebeers. 1786 R. Burns Poems 64 So may they [sc. sheep] like their great forbears, For monie a year come thro, the sheers. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xi. 223 This Roland Cheyne..was my forbear. 1883 D. C. Murray Hearts I. 53 A yeoman whose forbears had once owned the land. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1488 |
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