| 单词 | best-nourishing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbest-nourishing (i) Combining with adjectives and participles with the sense ‘to the fullest extent, most’ to form adjectives and derived nouns, as best-able, best-abused, best-accomplished, best-described, best-discussed, best-esteemed, best-frequented, best-hated, best-learned, best-nourishing, best-pleasing, best-skilled, best-studied, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately at Compounds 1a(b)(ii). ΚΠ OE Homily: Invention of Cross (Auct. F.4.32) in M.-C. Bodden Old Eng. Finding of True Cross 73 Hio þa gecuron þusend þara betst gelæredra Iudeiscra manna. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8408 (MED) He þat better can mend þen pere Best worþi es to be þin air. c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 139 (MED) Thebes..was..the best peeplid citee vpon the erthe while it endured. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 4v The best learned, and best men. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xli. 237 It is a great daunting to the best able man..when he shall finde his whole dayes trauell not able to furnish him of necessarie prouision. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ii. 166 I doe feast to night My best esteemd acquaintance. View more context for this quotation 1610 L. Andrewes Serm. Preached before His Maiestie at White-hall 37 Wee..offer Him againe to God, as the best pleasing Oblation that wee can offer him. 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. vi. 127 The best-skilled of us all. 1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist i. 41 The generality of the best learned Men interpret it of the Eucharist. 1770 Portrait of Life I. 136 Education had rendered her one of the best accomplished women in Lyons. 1848 Punch 15 155/1 We have heard certain persons whose claims to distinction arose from their being the ‘best abused men in the world’. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 4 One of the best-frequented houses in the district. 1900 Daily News 16 Feb. 7/2 Englishmen are the best-hated people in the world. 1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 100 The best-discussed and best-described man in England. 1946 New Yorker 11 May 49 (advt.) Colorful, human-interest stories and commentary by one of radio's best-liked personalities. 1964 A. White et al. Princ. Biochem. (ed. 3) xxi. 403 The best-studied mutase is phosphoglucomutase. 1992 J. Osborne Cardinal i. 25 One of the best-nourishing seeds to buy for your backyard birds is the small black oil sunflower seed. < as lemmas |
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