单词 | long-accepted |
释义 | > as lemmaslong-accepted long-accepted adj. ΚΠ 1767 T. Kirkland Ess. Cure Dis. which are Cause of Fevers 60 The long-accepted saying of Hippocrates,..that contraries are the cure of contraries. 1790 A. Bicknell Grammatical Wreath Pref. p. vii Dr. Ash continues the long-accepted terms, the nominative, genitive, and accusative. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. ii. xxi. 267 He was the long-accepted confessor of many among the chief personages in Florence. 1922 V. Kellogg Human Life i. 38 Many of the long-accepted familiar distinctions between living and non-living matter must be given up. 2000 A. Hastings in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 548/2 The participation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and other Christians in the plot to kill Hitler challenged long-accepted church political views. < as lemmas |
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