单词 | later-born |
释义 | > as lemmaslater-born C1. Uses of the adverb preceding participles to form adjectives, as later-born, later-coming, later-flowering, etc. Cf. late adv. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 155 Paul afterward grew..to say that hee had the prerogative of beeing first, and that new-sprong and later-come ought rather to obey him. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole i. ix. 73 This later flowring Daffodill hath his leaues somewhat narrow & long. 1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. v. ii. 254 There is a Logicall possibility that any of these later known things may be away, without hurting those that were known before. 1785 T. Martyn in tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxi. 308 The third is a taller, genteeler, later-flowering plant. 1823 in J. Baillie Coll. of Poems 273 Leave we the clouds of ancient story, For scenes of later-parted glory. 1885 Trans. Clin. Soc. 18 375 Twenty-nine of Demme's children were first-born children, 17 were second-born, and 11 were later-born children. 1949 H. Wilcox White Stranger ii. 29 The Torajas are therefore called Proto-Malaysians, to distinguish them from the later-coming Buginese and others. 2009 J. A. Coyne Why Evol. is True i. 5 (caption) Species that were the common ancestors between later-evolved forms. < as lemmas |
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