| 单词 | stricken in years |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstricken in years 1. (For other uses see strike v.) stricken in years (earlier †stricken on, in age, in elde): advanced in years. archaic. (See also struck n., strucken adj.)The participle in these phrases belongs to strike v. in the intransitive sense ‘to go’. Cf. the equivalent stepped (stape, stopen) in years (step v. 4). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > old (of beings, etc.) oldeOE winteredeOE oldlyOE over-oldOE eldernc1175 at-oldc1200 stricken on, in age, in eldec1380 oldlya1382 (well, far, etc.) stepped in age, in or into yearsc1386 ancientc1400 aged1420 well-agedc1450 ripec1480 passing oldc1485 (well) shot in years1530 old aged1535 agey1547 Ogygian1567 strucken1576 oldish1580 stricken in yearsa1586 declined1591 far1591 struck1597 Nestorian1605 overripe1605 elderly1611 eld1619 antiquated1631 enaged1631 thorough-old1639 emerita1643 grandevous1647 magnaevous1727 badgerly1753 (as) old as the hills1819 olden days1823 crusted1833 long in the tooth1841 oldened1854 mature1867 over the hill1950 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3481 Sirs, ȝe knoweþ wel þat y am sumdel stryken on age. c1400 Sc. Trojan War (Horstm.) 2621 I ame now so strikine in elde, That I þe kynryk may nocht welde. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke i. f. lxxjv Booth were wele stricken in age. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xviii. B And Abraham and Sara were both olde, & well stryken in age. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 37v He learned to plaie on the harpe after yt he was well striken in age. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. iii. sig. C3v He being already well striken in yeares, maried a young princes, named Gynecia. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 133 A man well stricken in years. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 98. ⁋2 Though you are stricken in years, and have had great experience in the world. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose xv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 328 A matron somewhat stricken in years. 1839 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 84 At length there arrived..a great sage, stricken in years, who was called the sage Doobán. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。