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单词 legendary writer
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legendary writer
b. Writing or relating legends; spec. designating the author of a legendary (see sense A. 1a). Chiefly in legendary writer. Obsolete.In later uses perhaps the noun used as the first element of a compound.
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1604 Abp. G. Abbot Reasons Dr. Hill Vnmasked vi. 246 Your late Legendary writers to whome anone you must haue recourse.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 33 Not to meddle at all with miraculous Authours, or any Legendary relators. View more context for this quotation
1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ i. 45 These Proofs..depend chiefly on the authority of Simeon Metaphrastes or other Legendary Writers.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vii. 212 These legendary writers, of whose misrepresentations and falsities we had almost daily experience.
1778 C. Rogers Coll. Prints II. 48 Another Legendary Author I have before me..says that God, appeased by the tears of St. Gregory, recalled Trajan to life.
1854 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 14/2 He was famous for his miracles, and even, says a legendary writer..one of especial significance.
1898 A. G. Mackey Hist. Freemasonry I. xxiv. 155 Dr. Oliver, one of the latest and the most prolific of the legendary writers, although in his own theory he seeks to trace the origin of Freemasonry to a much more remote antiquity.
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