| 单词 | of light digestion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof light digestion a. Of food, drink, etc.: easy to digest; low in fat, sugar, or other rich ingredients; (of a meal) small and easy to digest. Formerly also in †light of digestion, †of light digestion: easy to digest (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > digestible > easily digested or light lighteOE subtlea1398 convertiblec1400 subtilty1528 slipper1539 well-digesteda1594 benign1638 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > light lighteOE eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xlix. 264 Leohte mettas þicge & geseaw broþu. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 35 Drince leoht wyn [L. vinum molle], þæt hym ne þyrste. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xxiii. 331 Me vsiþ not at soper to se[r]ue men with grete me[te] and comyn..but with special liȝt mete and delicious [L. deliciosa]. c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 150 (MED) Many sondry potagis or metys qwyche be lyte of dygestyon. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. N.iijv The best to eate be yonge pigions, redye to flie, for suche be of lyght digestion. 1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 9 A light repaste, suche as the bodie maye easyly and without incommoditee awaye withall. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 82 Don Diego took a light Supper. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. xi. 173 The little family were assembled at the last and lightest meal of the day. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 418 Rice and sago and such like puddings are not ‘light’ or easily digestible foods. 2010 Irish Times 24 Apr. c4/3 A tiny café tucked in the back of the store offers light lunches and afternoon tea. < as lemmas |
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