单词 | new-made |
释义 | new-madeadj. 1. Recently or freshly made. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] new-madec1425 novela1500 new-created1593 novitiousa1650 new light1801 c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 6231 That saw an hardy newe-made knyȝt. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 419 Help help I have the new-maid king! a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 526 Gaheries..be-gan for to singe a newe made songe, and he songe right wele and merily. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox & Wolf l. 753 in Poems (1981) 32 He..off that new-maid salmond eit anewch. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 57 He come hame a new maid channoun. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 187 New made honor doth forget mens names. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 17 Sitting by a new made grave. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iv. 132 As if new-made matter, like new clothes,..had a better gloss. 1717 S. Centlivre Cruel Gift Epil. Was that a Present for a new-made Widow. 1784 J. Byng Diary 2 July in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 133 At my desire Mr P—l (our new made acquaintance) is to enquire after the possibility. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 164 Sweet as a muskrose upon new-made hay. 1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 52 The soil..torn from our new-made road. 1948 E. Sitwell Notebk. on Shakespeare vi. 72 The single-syllabled words take on the hugeness of those new-made stones that Deucalion and Pyrrha, the Deluge being over, found and cast behind their backs. 1986 B. Jagger Song Twice Over (BNC) 181 Contemptuous..of the pretensions of these new-made millionaires. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [adjective] > newly flowing new-made1808 1808 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 33 The flood-tide..according as it is new made, half run, or approaching to still water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1425 |
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