| 单词 | tenant by the curtesy initiate |
| 释义 | > as lemmastenant by the Curtesy initiate 2. Begun, commenced, introduced: see initiate v. 1 tenant by the Curtesy initiate: see quot. 1767, and cf. quot. 1883 at initiate v. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > that has (been) begun ybegunne?a1475 begun1483 broached1547 commenced1588 initiated1611 born1651 initiate1767 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. viii. 127 As soon..as any child was born, the father began to have a permanent interest in the lands,..and was called tenant by the curtesy initiate. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vii. 467 This worship [of the Virgin], already more than initiate, contributed..to the..violence with which the Nestorian controversy was agitated. < as lemmas |
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