单词 | kinsman |
释义 | kinsmann. A man of one's own kin; a relative by blood (or, loosely, by marriage). (Now chiefly literary.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] gadlingeOE sibmanOE friendOE sibOE siblingOE kinsmanc1175 friendmana1200 kinc1200 cousinc1300 allyc1380 kindreda1450 parent?c1450 alliancec1475 lyance1502 relation1502 relate1651 relative1657 relator1665 family member1673 correlative1697 relater1702 rellie1921 rello1982 c1052 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (MS. C.) anno 1052 Hit wæs heom mæst eallon lað þat hig sceoldon f[e]ohtan wið heora agenes cynnes mannum.] c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7613 Cristess kinness menn. Þær brohhtenn crist to kirrke. c1200 Vices & Virtues 75 Ne ðine breðren..ne ðine kenesmen, ne ðine neihibures. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 456/3 His freond and is cunnes-men þe gretteste maystres were. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6434 Ietro..was moyses kynnes-man [Gött. kines man]. c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 106 My kennysmen and ancestres yn þe self lawe dwellyd. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 67 That my kinnesmen & frendes be assembled. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 2v No..kynseman for kynseman..coulde do more. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 273 Hali, Mahomets nearest kinsman and sonne in lawe. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 31 Nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 605 It was no pleasant task to accuse the Queen's kinsman in the Queen's presence. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 65 He is your mother's kinsman. Derivatives ˈkinsmanly adj. appropriate to or characteristic of a kinsman. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [adjective] kinsmanly1838 1838 J. Martin Rem. & Serm. vii. 168 True kinsmanly affection to our brethren in Christ. 1885 Spectator 31 Jan. 154/2 The claims of New England upon the kinsmanly interest and affection of all travellers from the mother-country. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1175 |
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