| 单词 | of the blood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof the blood (also blood royal) a. of the blood (also blood royal): of royal family or lineage.See also prince of the blood (royal) at prince n. 7, princess of the blood (royal) at princess n. 1. ΚΠ c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 153 The faireste children of the blood roial Of Israel he leet do gelde anon. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxviii. 286 This Ladie (also of the blood, and heire vnto her Father, A mightie Prince). 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence Ded. Your Maiestie is descended of the chiefest blood royall of our ancient English-Saxon kings. 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico iii. 6 Anthony of Bourbon..being the first Prince of the bloud. 1769 H. Walpole Let. 17 Sept. (1941) X. 292 Everybody rushes in, Princes of the blood, cordons bleus, abbés, housemaids. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xii. 5 The queen-mother,..being of the blood royal of France, was naturally disposed to a union with that kingdom. 1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage III. xii. 230 That none of the blood royal shall raise to royal honours those of the subjects who are by birth un-royal! 1899 H. M. Baird Theodore Beza xii. 221 The question, whether it belonged to a foreigner and two insignificant persons such as they were, to judge a prince of the blood. 1929 Africa 2 265 A Matabele commoner is displaced by a princess of the blood-royal. 2009 K. Elliott Traitors' Gate 690 No man speaks so of..a princess of the blood. < as lemmas |
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