单词 | milk for babes |
释义 | > as lemmasmilk 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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