单词 | at the teat |
释义 | > as lemmasat the teat b. Chiefly with the. Used allusively to refer to the action of being suckled and hence more generally to the period of infancy. Frequently in phrases such as from the teat, at the teat, etc.The reading in quot. c1350 is unclear. ΚΠ c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xxi. 8 Þou art myn hope from þe tettes [MS unclear: perhaps read tittes; L. uberibus] of my moder. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) i. l. 242 Mercy fro þe tetys grewe wyth hyr. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xxii. 129/2 They which haue bin borne of all this time, to whome God hath graunted the grace to be suckled with Gods word euen from the teate, and to bee brought vp in it lykewise. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 145 Euen at thy teat thou hadst thy tyrranie. View more context for this quotation 1606 Returne from Pernassus iii. v. sig. F2 Vs our kinde Colledge from the teate did teare [printed teate]. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia (new ed.) 13 He left a plentifull estate, and such a Sonne, who (as the vulgar speaks it) could live without the teat. 1646 W. Hussey Answer to Mr. Tombes his Scepticall Exam. 41 He teacheth from the teat to the grave, from the ABC, to perfection. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cxxxi. 2) 653/2 The weanling, though he begin to goe, and speak, and live without the teat. 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 224 It is..good management to suffer the calf to remain at the teat, until the milk becomes useful on the dairy. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. I. 253 These [lion cubs]..continue at the teat near twelve months. 1879 S. H. Butcher & A. Lang tr. Homer Odyssey (ed. 2) 68 I have twelve brood mares with hardy mules unbroken at the teat. 2012 T. Glover Mating Males i. 2 The completion of body form occurs in the uterus of eutherian mammals in contrast to that of a ‘joey’.., whose longest period of development is at the teat. < as lemmas |
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