单词 | life-thirsting |
释义 | > as lemmaslife-thirsting (a) life-bereft, life-busy, life-empty, life-friendly, life-lost, life-old, life-thirsting, etc. Also occasionally: ‘lifelike’, as †life-expression (obsolete). ΚΠ OE Beowulf (2008) 966 Ic him [read hine]..wriþan þohte, þæt he for handgripe [perh. read mundgripe] minum scolde licgean lifbysig. 1598 S. Rowlands Betraying of Christ sig. Gij His life-lost blood. 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 113 Life-lengthned Ezechiah. 1621–31 W. Laud Serm. (1847) 98 Another King, but the same life expression of all the royal and religious virtues of his father. 1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. i. sig. H3v Life-spent Penthea. 1804 European Mag. Feb. 86 The drowning, life-infatuate fool. 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities iii. ix. 212 A life-thirsting..juryman. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn (1900) 87/2 The rupture of life-old associations. 1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 80 The life-lorn hillside. 1896 T. Martin tr. Virgil Æneid vi. 219 The bodies life-bereft Of heroes of renown. 1921 D. H. Lawrence Let. c8 May (1962) II. 653 Everybody nice, but rather spent, rather life-empty. 1927 Passing Show Summer 46/3 It is life-guaranteed, and the price is far below any other on the market. 2002 Sci. News 9 Feb. 86/3 Jupiter's icy moon Europa..may harbor a life-friendly ocean beneath its surface. < as lemmas |
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