| 单词 | kith and kin | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaskith and (or) kin  b.  Without article or pronoun. Now rare, except in  kith and (or) kin: see kith n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > 			[noun]		 kinc1250 sib1890 kin group1942 c1250    Hymn to God 30 in  Trin. Coll. Hom. App. 259  				Fader forȝif vs..Al swo we doð..to freômede & kunne. c1325    Chron. Eng. 92 in  J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës 		(1802)	 II  				Bruyt hade muche folk with him, Bothe fremede and eke kun. ?c1450    Life St. Cuthbert 		(1891)	 l. 4326  				Þai spared nouthir kynn na kyth. a1592    R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV 		(1598)	  v. sig. I  				What? was I borne to bee the scorne of kinne? a1616    W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens 		(1623)	  i. i. 123  				One onely Daughter haue I, no Kin  else.       View more context for this quotation 1836    W. Irving Astoria II. 63  				One of those anomalous beings..who seem to have neither kin nor country. kith and kin  5.   kith and kin: originally. Country and kinsfolk (see  3); in later use, Acquaintance and kinsfolk, one's friends and relatives; in modern use often taken merely as a pleonastic phrase for Kinsfolk, relatives, family connections. (Formerly sometimes corrupted to  kiff and kin.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > 			[noun]		 > relations and friends kithc1000 thineOE kith and kin1377 lyancec1380 you and yoursa1400 peoplea1425 alliance1548 homefolk1798 α. β. 1580    T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie 		(new ed.)	 f. 10  				For kiffe nor for kin.1584    R. Wilson Three Ladies of London sig. Aiiv  				They forsake..Prince, Countrey, Religion, kiffe and kinne.a1627    T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side 		(1630)	  iv. 47  				A Mayd that's neither kiffe nor kin to me.1719    in  T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 151  				To visit Kiff and Kin.figurative.1851    E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows  i. xxiii. 61  				Mark the natural kiths and kins Of circumstance and office.1861    F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. iv. 156  				That Greek and Latin were of the same kith and kin as the language of the black inhabitants of India. 1377    W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 497  				How riȝtwis men..Fer fro kitth and fro kynne yuel yclothed ȝeden. a1400    Octouian 1822  				I-dryue Ywas,..From ken and kyghth. ?c1450    Life St. Cuthbert 		(1891)	 l. 23  				Of saynt cuthbert kyth and kynne. 1570    P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miv/2  				Kith, or kin, cognatio. a1796    R. Burns Poems & Songs 		(1968)	 II. 885  				My Lady's white, my Lady's red, And kith and kin o' Cassillis' blude. 1824    Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV xxxi. 20  				Daughters, brothers, sisters, kith or kin. 1872    W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton viii  				If any extra bit of comfort or kindness is wanted for their own kith and kin. < as lemmas | 
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