| 单词 | once removed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasonce removed 7. once removed: (esp. of a blood relationship) removed by one degree. Cf. removed adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > by specific degree great1436 removed1502 once removed1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. xiii. 162 With his nine children..with seven and twentie nephewes, the sonnes of his children, and nine and twentie nephewes more, once removed, who were his sonnes nephewes. 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 4 Which is cosen german to it once remov'd. 1653 G. Ashwell Fides Apostolica 76 Irenæus, the Apostles Scholer but once removed. 1732 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed (ed. 10) 11 Few are in love with Cross-bars, and to be brother to a by-blow is to be a bastard once removed. 1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn I. xv. 121 His own first cousin once removed still held the paternal acres at Finn Grove. 1883 Christian Commonw. 6 Dec. 174/1 A condition only once removed from the lower animals. 1931 O. Nash Let. 17 Feb. in Loving Lett. (1990) 157 Extracts from reviews, in which you find that you are engaged—oh, very unofficially and distantly—my fiancée once removed, sort of—but still engaged, to a supreme wagster. 1977 R. Ludlum Chancellor Manuscript xxxix. 429 Assassination teams... It was all once removed, divided secretly inside the bureau. No one knows how far it went. 1992 Down East Feb. 50/1 The elegant birds-eye maple writing table which is a second cousin once removed to a low-slung cherry coffee table. 2002 Times (Nexis) 25 Oct. [Her mother's] other colourful descendants include President Richard Nixon (Queen Geraldine's eighth cousin once removed). < as lemmas |
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