单词 | paternal |
释义 | paternaladj. 1. a. Of or relating to a father or fathers; characteristic of a father in his care for, bearing towards, or authority over offspring; fatherly; (of government) paternalistic. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [adjective] > proper to a father fatherlyeOE paternala1450 fatherlike1540 a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) 503 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 385 Edmond, my neuew..I the accepte for my sone in deede, Vnder most trewe affeccion paternall [v.r. paternal]. a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 163 (MED) Cryst þene, beholdynge þy grete & grewous fall..Was Anone meked with pyte paternall, the to make fre. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 106 Heere I disclaime all my paternall care, Propinquitie and property of blood. View more context for this quotation 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xii. §4. 414 The gouernment which this Nation vnderwent, was first paternall. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 353 God..still compassing thee round With goodness and paternal Love. View more context for this quotation 1743 H. Fielding Of Remedy Afflict. in Misc. I. 305 It is no Breach of Friendship, nor Violence of Paternal Fondness. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xliv. 203 The Roman legislators had reposed an unbounded confidence in the sentiments of paternal love. 1843 Nonconformist 3 744 Report..that our government, grown suddenly paternal, were about to abandon their prosecutions in Ireland. 1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water xix He kissed her on the forehead with almost paternal gentleness. 1940 E. Wilson To Finland Station ii. viii. 148 Marx took over for Engels something of the prestige of paternal authority which the younger man had rejected in his own father. 1990 ‘J. Sutherland’ Mrs Humphry Ward ii. 26 It was automatic with Mary to defer to any man who could assume a paternal role in his dealings with her. b. Of or belonging to a particular person's father; (one's) father's.In earlier use with reference to God the Father. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [adjective] > one's father's paternala1500 a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 482 (MED) Goddys son, oo shynyng bryght splendowre, Of þe paternall and eterne glorie..Noo clowdes dark thy bryghtnes mey deface. 1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.6 Suld thay not be preferrit to his paternall enemeis, zea, and slayeris of his father. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 219 Th' Omnific Word..on the Wings of Cherubim Uplifted, in Paternal Glorie rode Farr into Chaos. View more context for this quotation 1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 81 I took my leave of my relations, bidding adieu to my paternal home. 1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia III. ii. xiv. 40 To trace that son's exodus from the paternal mansion. a1901 W. Besant Five Years' Tryst (1902) 46 Throwing himself at the paternal feet. 1993 Evening Standard (Nexis) 1 Oct. 27 He seemed destined in his teens to follow the paternal profession. c. That is a father, or has the status of a father.In earlier use with reference to God the Father. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [adjective] > that is a father paternal1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 750 The Chariot of Paternal Deitie. View more context for this quotation 1706 J. Potter Archæologia Græca (ed. 2) I. ii. ii. 185 Cyrus..Sacrificeth to Paternal Jupiter. a1711 T. Ken Christophil in Wks. (1721) I. 432 Paternal God in Filial shines, And in our Bliss with Filial joyns. 1818 W. Hayley Poems on Serious & Sacred Subj. 65 The paternal God was pleas'd to see A bright reflection of Himself in Thee. 1918 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Totem & Taboo iv. 246 With the institution of paternal deities the fatherless society gradually changed into a patriarchal one. 1997 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 9 July The newly paternal Jackson—his son Prince was born in February—has a revived appetite for his work. 2. Inherited or derived from a father or the father's side; related through a father or on the father's side. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > on father's side agnate1604 paternal1610 agnatical1660 agnatic1715 patrilateral1943 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. ii. 257 Receiued as an augmentation of honour..impaled with her paternall Coat. 1685 J. Dryden tr. Horace Epode ii, in Sylvæ sig. K6 Who Plow'd with Oxen of their own Their small paternal field of Corn. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 176. ⁋8 I have a good Fortune, partly paternal, and partly acquired. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 237 George Stiles, the paternal grandfather. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. vii. 179 His title, and his paternal fortune, which he thought..might be rendered unchallengeable. 1840 B. Thorpe Anc. Laws & Instit. of Eng. I. 79 A man, kinless of paternal relatives. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. iii. 94 My paternal grandmother..ran away with my paternal grandfather when she was not quite sixteen. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) v. 65 There is also a corresponding gene in one of the paternal chromosomes. 1992 Raritan Summer 93 The bed is an heirloom..that Steven's paternal great-aunt and -uncle slept in all their married life. Compounds paternal roof n. the home of a person's father. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home > ancestral home paternal roof1720 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxii. 626 Ev'n from his own paternal Roof expell'd, Some Stranger plows his patrimonial Field. 1845 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (new ed.) xliii. 475 Longing earnestly for a temporary sanctuary under his friend's paternal roof. 1902 J. Corbin Amer. at Oxf. 17 All this brings recollections of the paternal roof, where tardiness at breakfast meant the loss of dessert. 1992 Current Digest Post-Soviet Press (Nexis) 11 Mar. 27 Some..ran away from children's homes, some..from under a paternal roof that proved to be worse than a stranger's. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1450 |
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