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单词 late-acquired
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late-acquired
a. With the sense ‘after the proper or expected time, at a late hour or stage’, as late-acquired, late-arriving, late-begun, late-departing, late-discovered, late-lingering, late-opening, late-ripening, late-running, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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OE Prudentius Glosses (Corpus Cambr. 223) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 28/2 Sero..aeuo : lætcumen[re] yl[de].
1615 T. Worthington Whyte dyed Black i. i. 12 He opposeth on the contrary side our late begon renouation, or newnes of lyfe, to the merites of the Sonne of God.
1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. vi. 75 A..late-begun repentance.
1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise iii. iii. 35 O Villain, Slave, wert thou my late born Heir, Giv'n me by Heav'n, ev'n when I lay a dying.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Kalendar 97 Late Blowing Tulips, Anemonies, Ranunculus's, Pinks of several sorts.
1791 H. More Estimate Relig. Fashionable World 211 The frequent and late-protracted ball.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 50 An early-chosen, late-lamented home.
1821 J. Brettell Country Minister (1825) vii. 82 Faint, pale, beams of his late-lingering light Cheer'd the dark shadows of approaching night.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 19/2 We happen to know several persons who have vowed destruction on their late ripening grapes, and have determined to fill their places with the earlier sorts.
1865 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 27 That yield That I may win with late-learnt skill uncouth.
1882 M. Arnold in 19th Cent. Jan. 1 Hither he came, late-born and long desired.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 10/1 Only a few stragglers—most of them birds with their late-hatched broods—are left.
1933 Mind 42 279 The physiological and psychological processes which cause it to be given may be as complex and as late-acquired as you please.
1952 Robesonian (Lumberton, N. Carolina) 23 Dec. 7/1 Hotels and night clubs in Boston advertised the fact that late departing guests would be served hot coffee ‘on the house’.
1963 E. Wilson Jrnl. in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 207 Some party in New York, at which late-arriving guests had been surprised..to find everybody sitting in silence.
1996 J. Brown Hong Kong & Macau: Rough Guide (ed. 3) 76 They're all late-opening..and mostly frequented by expats and well-to-do Chinese yuppies.
1998 Independent on Sunday 13 Dec. i. 6/5 Frustration at late-running trains.
2002 J. Valk et al. Magn. Resonance in Dementia 343/2 A relatively late-discovered midline tumor.
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