| 单词 | high king |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh king high king n. †(a) a great king, a supreme king (obsolete); (b) a king to whom other rulers owe allegiance. ΚΠ OE Beowulf (2008) 1039 Þæt wæs hildesetl heahcyninges. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1022 Hit iwerð seodðen [emended in ed. to seoððen] þat aræs of Brutus kunne þat was an heh king. 1542 Dyalogue Defensyue for Women sig. D.iv Of .v. Cyties the people perysshed, great and small In punysshement of that synne, by the hyghe kynge & lorde Pharao of Egypt. a1761 W. Harris Hist. Dublin (1766) ix. 158 The Irish language distinguisheth the office of king by two words, namely, airdrigh, or the high king; i. e. the supreme monarch; and righ-beag, i. e. the little or petty-king; in latin regulus, who was a provincial or inferior king. 1890 J. Healy Insula Sanctorum 559 It was to this lonely but sweet retreat that Ireland's last High-king retired to die. 1956 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China II. xviii. 580 Some think..that Shang-Ti was a transcendentalisation of the function of the Emperor or bronze-age High King. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 3/2 A number of heavy chains made of pairs of solid silver links are perhaps best seen as regalia for the many regional sub-kings who owed allegiance to the high king. < as lemmas |
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