单词 | lately-acquired |
释义 | > as lemmaslately-acquired Combining with (esp. past) participles, with the sense ‘recently’, to form adjectives, as lately-acquired, lately-arrived, lately-arriving, etc. ΚΠ 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel xii. f. 224v Yet haue thei false miracles and money to bye lyes and to suborne the defenders of their lately made Mayzim their popis god. 1607 S. Hieron Three Serm. i. 25 Some vnexperienced and lately-pressed souldiers. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvii. 267 The lately passed times denominate, the New. 1619 M. Drayton Legend Robert of Normandie in Poems 333 Dealing abroad his lately purchas'd Prey. 1728 J. Morgan Hist. Barbary Epitomiz'd in Compl. Hist. Algiers I. 95 Belisarius..imbarked..; recommending the Preservation of the lately-recovered Realms to the Care of his Lieutenant. 1798 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 368/2 The truth was never, perhaps, more strongly exemplified than in a lately-published instance. 1818 S. Smith Lett. (1953) I. 285 Pray do not destroy yourself with dissipation between this period and that, so that there may remain a small portion of you for your lately-arriving country friends. 1832 Boston (Lincs.) Herald 31 July 1 A great Stock of lately-improved Waggon-Covers. 1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 239 With lately-whetted axes. 1907 Month Nov. 501 It proved to be the primitive dwelling of a lately-arrived settler. 1973 New Scientist 18 Jan. 146/2 But this is not to boast of a lately acquired and so far unmastered skill. 2002 Fortean Times Sept. 22/2 A pair of lately-revealed titi monkeys the size of small cats. < as lemmas |
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