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单词 light-believing
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light-believing
C1. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘lightly ——; readily or easily ——’, as light-believing, light-clad, light-harnessed, light-loaded, light-shod, etc.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [adjective] > clad in or protected by armour > lightly
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light-harnesseda1425
light-armeda1450
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 18 Credulus, lyȝt leuinge.
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 17 Many wilfull and light disposed persons..haue attempted the..violacion of the same statutes.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (1634) Pref. The light-beleeving and ignorant multitude.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. xiii. 24 The Bructeri..Stertinius ouerthrew with a companie of light harnessed souldiers.
1751 Act 24 Geo. II c. 8 §17 Damages do often happen to light-loaded Barges..by deep-loaded Barges..lying across..in the said Rivers.
1798 W. Sotheby tr. C. M. Wieland Oberon xi. vii. 360 A veil, light-shadowing each voluptuous charm.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxiii. 44 With milk-white crest, gold spur, and light-pois'd lance.
1859 Gardeners' Chron. 26 Nov. 952/1 In spite of its heavy coat, it [sc. the Russian setter] bears heat as well as the lighter-clad pointer.
1957 Daily Standard (Sikeston, Missouri) 26 Sept. 7/3 The city man, striking out with a bag of letters, is the light-shod foot soldier of the corps.
2017 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Mar. (Taste section) 25 Little nuggets of light-fried chicken.
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