life-everlastingn.

Brit.

/ˌlʌɪf ɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋ/,

/ˌlʌɪf ɛvəˈlastɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈˌlaɪf ɛvərˈlæstɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: life n., everlasting adj.

Etymology: < life n. + everlasting adj. Compare earlier livelong n.Perhaps with punning allusion to the phrase life everlasting in e.g. the Apostles' Creed (post-classical Latin vita aeterna ). The phrase is also used repeatedly the Rheims New Testament (1582) and was common in early modern religious writing; compare life n. 3.

Chiefly U.S.

Any of several cudweeds and similar plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) with everlasting flowers; esp. pearly everlasting, Anaphalis margaritacea.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > cudweeds

horewortc1400

chafeweed1548

chafewort1548

cudweed1548

cudwort1548

cartafilago1551

cottonweed1562

downweed1562

petty cotton1578

small cotton1578

file-wort1597

live forever1597

livelong1597

life-everlasting1629

white plantain1687

petty coy1736

cat's-foot1739

owl's crown1787

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xciii. 374 Argyrocome sive Gnaphalium Americanum. Live long or Life everlasting. This silver tuft or Indian Cotton weede, hath many white heades of leafes..couered with a hoary woollinesse like cotton.

1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Caryophyllus holostius tomentosus Leaves..white like unto the Leaves of the Gnaphalium Americanum, called white live long or life everlasting.

1794 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. (new ed.) 145 Life everlasting (Gnaphalium odoratissimum?).

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 124 Life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs.

1864 Brit. Jrnl. Homœopathy 22 493 Sweet-scented Life-everlasting.

1876 C. E. Hobbs C. E. Hobbs's Bot. Hand-bk. 92 Poverty weed, Life everlasting, Gnaphalium polycephalum.

1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal II. 645/2 The name White Plantain is also applied in the United States to Antennaria plantaginifolia (Linn.), the Ladies or Indian Tobacco, Spring Cudweed, or Life-everlasting, to give several of its names.

1964 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlii. 22 Rabbit tobacco. Life everlasting.., used in many folk remedies for catarrh; also chewed and smoked by boys.

1993 W. Baldwin Hard to catch Mercy 42 My mama had allowed the woman to treat us all, even Grandpa, with her teas of holly and life-everlasting and her pinegum linaments [sic].

2007 H. C. Covey Afr. Amer. Slave Med. v. 101 Southern folk medicine employed the use of life-everlasting or everlasting root to induce sweating before the antebellum period.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	life-everlasting
释义	life-everlastingn. Brit. /ˌlʌɪf ɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋ/, /ˌlʌɪf ɛvəˈlastɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈˌlaɪf ɛvərˈlæstɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: life n., everlasting adj. Etymology: < life n. + everlasting adj. Compare earlier livelong n.Perhaps with punning allusion to the phrase life everlasting in e.g. the Apostles' Creed (post-classical Latin vita aeterna ). The phrase is also used repeatedly the Rheims New Testament (1582) and was common in early modern religious writing; compare life n. 3. Chiefly U.S. Any of several cudweeds and similar plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) with everlasting flowers; esp. pearly everlasting, Anaphalis margaritacea. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > cudweeds horewortc1400 chafeweed1548 chafewort1548 cudweed1548 cudwort1548 cartafilago1551 cottonweed1562 downweed1562 petty cotton1578 small cotton1578 file-wort1597 live forever1597 livelong1597 life-everlasting1629 white plantain1687 petty coy1736 cat's-foot1739 owl's crown1787 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xciii. 374 Argyrocome sive Gnaphalium Americanum. Live long or Life everlasting. This silver tuft or Indian Cotton weede, hath many white heades of leafes..couered with a hoary woollinesse like cotton. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Caryophyllus holostius tomentosus Leaves..white like unto the Leaves of the Gnaphalium Americanum, called white live long or life everlasting. 1794 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. (new ed.) 145 Life everlasting (Gnaphalium odoratissimum?). 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 124 Life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs. 1864 Brit. Jrnl. Homœopathy 22 493 Sweet-scented Life-everlasting. 1876 C. E. Hobbs C. E. Hobbs's Bot. Hand-bk. 92 Poverty weed, Life everlasting, Gnaphalium polycephalum. 1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal II. 645/2 The name White Plantain is also applied in the United States to Antennaria plantaginifolia (Linn.), the Ladies or Indian Tobacco, Spring Cudweed, or Life-everlasting, to give several of its names. 1964 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlii. 22 Rabbit tobacco. Life everlasting.., used in many folk remedies for catarrh; also chewed and smoked by boys. 1993 W. Baldwin Hard to catch Mercy 42 My mama had allowed the woman to treat us all, even Grandpa, with her teas of holly and life-everlasting and her pinegum linaments [sic]. 2007 H. C. Covey Afr. Amer. Slave Med. v. 101 Southern folk medicine employed the use of life-everlasting or everlasting root to induce sweating before the antebellum period. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1629
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