单词 | new-built |
释义 | new-builtadj. Freshly or recently built; rebuilt. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [adjective] > built > recently new-built1586 1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Piiv In a new-built Fortresse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 123 Her new built vertue and obedience. View more context for this quotation 1630 M. Drayton Noahs Floud in Muses Elizium 96 Hauing sented out Noah's new-built Arke. 1694 London Gaz. No. 2985/4 A new built Water-Mill. 1742 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Treat. Fires in tr. A. Palladio Architecture (ed. 3) II. 100 Warming their new-built Houses. 1744 T. Toovey Let. 25 Oct. in A. P. Jenkins Corr. T. Secker (1991) 121 To supply My Church of Watlington 'til I can reside there which shall be as soon as I can with any Safety live in a New built house. 1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 44 Their grand and new-built city. 1856 C. Kingsley Argonauts in Heroes v. 133 What is this new-built town? 1907 Science 7 Sept. 353/2 Backset eddies..sweep around the new-built shore lines between the projecting headlands. 1989 P. Tristram Living Space in Fact & Fiction (BNC) 84 Where the town in 1440 has 13 churches, in 1840 it has 7, all new-built, for in nineteenth century England more churches were erected than in any other century since the middle ages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1586 |
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