| 单词 | born to purple |
| 释义 | > as lemmasborn to (also in) (the) purple d. born to (also in) (the) purple: born into an imperial or royal reigning family. Also in extended use.Often associated with sense B. 1b; but cf. also quot. 1788 and porphyrogenite n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [adjective] > royally born kinelyeOE kine-bornOE purpurate1669 king-born1670 born to (also in) (the) purple1681 porphyrogenea1849 throne-born1855 porphyry-borna1940 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [phrase] > born after father's accession born to (also in) (the) purple1681 1681 tr. E. Scholasticus Epiphaniensis Eccl. Hist. vi. xxiv. 526/2 (note) The most noble Theodosius was born in purple on the third year of Mauricius's Empire. 1703 D. Williamson Serm. preached Edinb. 54 I cannot but lament the unhappy fate of the Princes who are born in purple, and bred in Luxury. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1790) IX. xlviii. 57 In the Greek language purple and porphyry are the same word:..an apartment of the Byzantine palace was lined with porphyry: it was reserved for the use of the pregnant empresses: and the royal birth of their children was expressed by the appellation of porphyrogenite, or born in the purple. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 125 [Richard Cromwell] would probably have reigned as well as most of those who are born in the purple. 1884 Labouchere in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 208 True Liberals who have not had the good fortune to be born in the Whig purple. 1937 O. St. J. Gogarty As I was going down Sackville St. (1989) 239 I was not born to the purple. 1963 F. C. Crews Pooh Perplex 104 No doubt when you have been born to the purple and never had to do a day's honest work, you prefer worshipping frivolousness to facing the eternal moral questions. 1994 New Yorker 19 Sept. 40/3 The hero, a young lion named Simba, is born to the purple. < as lemmas |
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