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单词 milk for babes
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milk for babes
a. [especially with allusion to 1 Corinthians 3:2 and Hebrews 5:12, contrasted with ‘(strong) meat’.] Nourishment appropriate only to the earliest stages of development. Frequently in milk for babes.
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the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > babyhood or infancy
milkeOE
barnagec1400
infancec1400
infancya1513
babeship1542
babehood1548
cradle1555
cradle-hood1599
baby agea1617
biggin1616
babyship1617
dentity1638
babyhood1748
babyism1798
paphood1837
babydom1853
infanthood1862
infantage1866
tottledom1889
toddlerhood1917
the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > invalid or infants food
milkeOE
pap1286
pap-meat1440
kitchen physic1566
mammaday1593
suckling meatsc1610
embamma1623
kitchen medicine1684
pappy1807
pobs1824
baby food1832
pobbies1848
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) lxiii. 459 Be ðæm cwæð sanctus Paulus:..ge sint giet cilderu on eowrum geleafan, ðy ic sceal sellan eow giet mioloc drincan, nalles flæsc etan.
OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) lxxxi. 331 Ne mihte ic sprecan wið eow swylce wið gastlice, ac swylce wið flæsclice, and ic sealde eow, þe for Criste sint lytlingas, meoloc for drinc and nanne strangne mete.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lx. 16 Thou shalt souke the mylc of Jentiles, and with the tete of kingis thou shalt be mylkid.
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 613 Flatereres ben the deueles norices that norissen hise children with milk of losengerie.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 14706 (MED) With my mylk off fflatrye I was noryce..vn-to Pryde.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. I3v Inhumaine creatures, nurst with Tigers milke, Why gape you for your soueraignes ouerthrow?
1641 H. Peters (title) Milke for Babes, and Meat for Men: or, Principles necessary to be knowne..of such as would know Christ.
1772 T. Nugent tr. P. J. Grosley Tour to London I. 318 Tithes were the first milk of these rising establishments [sc. monasteries].
1803 (title) Milk for babes; or, a catechism in verse.
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 121 Neither are their consciences of that puling kind, that will submit to be fed with this milk of babes.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 70 He was nourished, not by solid food, but by milk, i.e. by the rudiments of piety and righteousness.
1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Jan. 35/3 The strong wine of Sovietophobia on which most of the contributors had dined was just milk for babes at the Burnham table.
1983 A. Mason Illusionist iii. 90 All knowledge, all speculation, all endeavour, were reduced to this children's milk.
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