单词 | old stager |
释义 | > as lemmasold stager Categories » old stager n. see stager n. 1a. old stager a. old stager: a person who has become skilled or qualified by long experience; one who has been long employed in an office, a profession, course of life, etc.; a veteran, an old hand. Also occasionally of animals. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > familiarity with a thing > one who has long experience veteran1565 old stager1570 old, ancient, or long stander1590 stager1664 old soldier1722 old hand1764 warhorse1836 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > experience > [noun] > one who experiences > and becomes knowing old stager1570 old dog?1589 old file1700 old soldier1722 old robin1784 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1756/1 [They] betooke them to theyr legges..resembling in some part a spectacle not much vnlike to the old stagers of Oxford, worse feared then hurt, when as the Church there was noysed to be on fier. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 181 They..doo..disdayne the gouernment..of the old Bee..when the swarmes be great and lusty, and that the old stagers [L. veteres] are disposed to send abroade their Colonies. 1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. i. 11 It was worth observing to see how officiously some of the old Stagers took leave of the publick Purse, before it came into Hucksters hands. 1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 284 The next Digestion..the old Stagers will needs have to be in the Veines of the Mesenterie. 1669 Hist. Pope's Nephews (1673) ii. 135 'Tis a tedious thing to Princes Ministers, who are old Stagers in Councils and Affairs, to have to do with raw, unexperienced Persons. 1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm 55 With the old Stagers, no matter who they meet in a Coach, 'tis always Good your Honor! or Good your Lordship! 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved iii. 28 A young Horse, though he be more subject to Diseases than an old hardened Stager. 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 20 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1278 But here let me, as an old stager upon the theatre of the world, suggest one consideration to you. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 239 You never come down to see your old acquaintances. You would find most of the old stagers still stationary there. a1832 J. Bentham Princ. Internat. Law in Wks. (1843) II. 549/2 True—but there are young beginners as well as old stagers. 1841 W. H. Prescott in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 411 I do not know that an old stager in authorship, like you, cares for anybody's opinion. 1895 W. C. Scully Kafir Stories 169 My horse was a steady old stager, not at all given to shying. 1991 Shooting Times 18 Apr. 18/1 Most of us who've been around the shooting field for a year or three, like to consider ourselves as Old Stagers. < as lemmas |
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