| 单词 | greatsire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreatsire greatsire n. now rare (a) a forefather (in early use spec. Adam), a grandfather (archaic); (b) an animal's grandsire. ΚΠ 1615 T. Adams Englands Sicknes ii. 92 Wee deriue it from our great Sire Adam, with more infallible conueyance then euer sonne inherited his fathers lands. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v Our Primitive great Sire, to meet His god-like Guest, walks forth, without more train. View more context for this quotation 1695 E. Settle Augusta Lachrymans 9 Our Great Sire, by the Creator grac'd, In His Vntill'd, Vnforfeit Eden plac'd. 1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Polit. Touch-stone 95 in Advts. from Parnassus iii He prov'd himself a Grand Child worthy his great Syre by his Mother's side. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) i. ii. 35 And will not my great sires leap from the vault, Where lie two doges who preceded me, And pluck me down amongst them? 1844 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 582/1 And rusty armour hang around, that her greatsires had worn. 1893 Wallace's Monthly Aug. 416/1 The first dam of Globard is that other greatsire, George Wilkes. 1922 H. Cox Chasing & Racing ix. 118 From her original stock and her great sire Cackler of Notts are descended nearly every terrier of the breed that is entitled to the prefix ‘Champion’. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 68 That same hot coney a la Zingara which our own little Graunya..dished up to the greatsire of Oscar, that son of a Coole. < as lemmas |
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