单词 | best-born |
释义 | > as lemmasbest-born best-born adj. (and n.) (a) adj. most well-born; noblest; (b) n. those who are most well-born.In quot. OE used with reference to the elders of Israel. ΚΠ OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) v. 23 Ða cwædon to me ða ealdras & ða betstborenan men [L. maiores natu]. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1087 Innan þam castele wæron swiðe gode cnihtas: Eustatius..& ealle þa betstboren men þe wæron innan þisan lande oððe on Normandige. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 42 Iason was more and more in the grace of the ladyes, For the best born the most fayre the best accomplisshed..fyxed their loue in hym. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorkshire 203 This Earl set forth a small Fleet at his own cost, and adventured his own person therein, being the best born Englishman that ever hazarded himselfe in that kind. 1838 London Q. Rev. Oct. 216/2 The base multitude looked on..while the best-born and bravest contended. 1999 J. McInerney Folds of Parnassos ii. 32 Deflating the claims of those who came ‘from the heart of Athens’ and who claim to be the best-born of the Ionians. < as lemmas |
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