单词 | prince-duke |
释义 | > as lemmasprince-duke a. Appositive, in the sense ‘that is a prince’, as prince-abbot, prince-angel, prince-duke, prince-god, prince-infanta, prince-poet, prince-pope, prince-priest, prince-primate, prince-teacher, etc. Cf. prince-bishop n., prince-elector n., Prince Regent n. ΚΠ 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico x. 19 Whether the King would allow him place, as a Prince-Infanta within the Cloth of State. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. lix. 116 Apollo..created him Prince-Poet, and..gave him the Royal Ensigns used to be given to Poets Laureat. 1679 C. Ness Protestant Antidote Popery 92 That Prince-fowl of the air, the Devil. 1794 Times 24 June 3/2 His brother, the Prince Primate, still resides in the palace with him. 1865 T. F. Knox tr. Life H. Suso 28 As if he were a prince-angel. 1866–7 S. Baring-Gould Curious Myths Middle Ages (1894) 47 The papal epistle..assures the Eastern Prince-Pope that his Christian professions are worthless, unless he submits to the successor of Peter. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xxi. 1 Sire and prince-patriarch of hungry starvelings. 1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xviii. 353 A friend of Padre Martini's, the prince-abbot of St. Blasien, Martin Gerbert. 1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Apr. b7/1 He wrote a major biography of the Montenegrin prince-poet, Njegos. < as lemmas |
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