| 单词 | melch-hearted |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmelch-hearted melch-hearted adj. having a soft heart; tender-hearted; timid; cf. milce-hearted adj. at milce n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [adjective] softc1175 mild-hearteda1200 moll1386 tender-hearted1539 melch-hearted1552 tenderly1567 feeling1583 frail1590 tender1595 tender-minded1608 sensible1631 high-strung1653 emollid1656 tender-natured1656 sensitive1735 sentimental1749 soulful1837 weak-hearted1841 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Milche harted, lemosus. 1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo iii. f. 64v You aledge for your purpose, that the qualities of the minde, agree with the constitution of the body, which beeing thus construed that where choler aboundeth, we are testie; where melancholy, madde and furious; or that tender complexions, are very melch harted. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Titus i. 13) A metaphor from Chyrurgeons, who must not be melch-hearted, saith Celsus, but pare away the dead flesh. 1782 E. Blower George Bateman II. 111 ‘Dad’, (said the glassman..pulling out his pocket-handkerchief) ‘I didn't used to be so melch-hearted.’ 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 101 Milch-hearted, timid; mild; tender-hearted; nervous. ‘Jack won't hurt him, he's ever much too milch-hearted.’ < as lemmas |
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