| 单词 | full man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfull man full man n. (a) a man whose mind is richly stored with knowledge (chiefly after Bacon's use: see quot. 1597); †(b) Nautical a crew member receiving full pay (see quot. 1867) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > sailors of lower ranks or classes foremast man1626 seaman1702 guinea pig1748 foremast seaman1793 full man1860 lower deck1874 1596Full man [see sense A. 2e]. 1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 1 Reading maketh a full man. 1821 S. C. Wilks Correlative Claims & Duties ii. 420 This practice..will have great effect in making him what Lord Bacon calls ‘a full man’. 1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in Representative Men 155 He was a full man who liked to talk; a brain exhaling thoughts and images. 1860 G. J. Williamson Ship's Career 11 I left her to go on board a brig; on whose books I was first placed as half-man, but I soon got the pay of a full man. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Full man, a rating in coasters for one receiving whole pay, as being competent to all his duties; able seaman. [Also in later dictionaries.] 1932 C. T. Goode Byron as Critic ii. 34 To add a third [asset], a desire to know,..was to make the Baconian ‘full man’, in his [sc. Byron's] instance, an assured product. 2002 Spectator (Nexis) 2 Nov. 38 I..despair at ever being what Francis Bacon called ‘a full man’. < as lemmas |
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