单词 | infant heir |
释义 | > as lemmasinfant heir a. appositive. That is an infant or like an infant, as infant angel, infant God, infant heir, infant king, infant martyr, infant poor, infant prodigy, infant warrior, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [adjective] infant1595 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. xxxiv. sig. C2v Kingdomes euer suffer this distresse, For one or manie guide the infant king. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 113 This Hotspur Mars in swathling cloaths, This infant warrier. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn iii, in Poems 2 A present to the Infant God. 1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus iv. 57 All the Riches That Empire could bestow..Upon its Infant Heir. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. xii. 234 A poor indigent King, surrounded with so many Infant-Priests and Doctors. a1704 T. Brown Oration in Praise Drunkenness in Wks. (1707) I. i. 54 Cheeks, like those the Painters give to Infant Angels. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. ix. 231 Thou wouldst not suffer those Infant-Martyrs..to endure so much as Thy Self. 1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence I. 51 This infant prodigy had excited so much attention that his likeness was taken, and engraved by Sherwin. 1872 J. A. H. Murray in Complaynt Scotl. Introd. p. viii Of the three centuries of Scottish history [1300–1600]..nearly a century and a half were occupied by the reigns of infant sovereigns. 1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ ii The recognition of the Infant Saviour by Simeon and Anna. a1900 Mod. The presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple. 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind ii. §4. 49 Infant-prodigies who fail to live up to their early promise. 1939 F. Pratt Secret & Urgent i. 25 He was Jean François Champollion, an infant prodigy. < as lemmas |
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