单词 | orphelin |
释义 | orphelinadj.n. Now U.S. regional (chiefly southern). Orphaned; bereaved. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > having (specific) parents > having no parents orphelin?a1425 orphanc1450 orphenin1480 orbate?1520 parentless1561 unparented1668 orphaned1799 ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. pr. iii. 32 Whan thow ere orphelyn of fadir and of modir [L. desolatum parente]. 1512 R. Copland tr. Knyght of Swanne xxxii. sig. I.v Shall I abyde orphelyne in my yonge dayes. a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 595 Chryst hes..promissit..not to leive thame orphalling. B. n. An orphan. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > orphan stepchild971 stepbairnc1000 pupilc1384 orphana1450 orphelinc1450 orpheninc1450 orphanera1500 ward1559 orphanet1604 little Orphan Annie1910 war orphan1915 c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 75 When þou..were so lawe i-broght As orphelyn [v.rr. or plyne; orphanyn] in manere desolate. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 112 Ye haue be pitous and norisshed pore orphelyns. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lx. 210 He dystroyeth the burgesses and marchauntes, wedous and orphelyns. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation (1732) 109 The Blind, Crooked, Bedralis, Widowis, Orphelingis, and all uther Pure. 1634 J. Levett Ordering of Bees Ep. Ded. Of your..love to the deceased Author, or your charity to this posthume Orphling. 1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox iii. 51 To preserve it for the Orphaline. a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 101 Orpheling. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 23 Feb. 1/4 (heading) The Orphaline Asylum. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xi. 114 A dark-complexioned young woman..informed me..that she was ‘a Orfling’. 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 262 Orphline..Orflin, an orphan. c1970 Halpert Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 900/2 She's a orfling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1425 |
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