| 单词 | to breed in and in |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto breed in and in Phrases. to breed out: to exhaust the breed, degenerate (obsolete); also, to eliminate (a characteristic) by (controlled) breeding; to breed in and in: to breed always with near relatives; the opposite being to breed out and out. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)] > exhaust by excessive breeding overbreed1598 to breed outa1616 overteem1877 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [verb (transitive)] > breed out to breed out1922 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. v. 29 Our Madames mock at vs, and plainely say, Our Mettell is bred out. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 250 The straine of mans bred out into Baboon and Monkey. View more context for this quotation 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I lvii. 31 In that point so precise in each degree That they bred in and in..Marrying their cousins—nay, their aunts and nieces. 1922 R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog xii. 178 Most Irish water spaniels have bad, straight shoulders, a defect which should be bred out. 1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man xv. 299 We could theoretically breed out much of human variety. to breed in and in a. Further and further in; continually inwards; esp. in phrase to breed in and in, to breed always within a limited stock (see breed v. Phrases); so to marry in and in, to marry with near relatives, in successive generations. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [adverb] > more > further and further in in and ina1637 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adverb] > inbreeding in and ina1637 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [verb (intransitive)] > inbreed to breed in and in1828 a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub iv. ii, in Wks. (1640) III A weaver he was..his shittle Went in and in still. We [joiners] do lay Things in and in, in our work. 1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 61 Should he (as the term is) breed them in and in..the breed would degenerate. 1794 Sporting Mag. 4 115 This practice is well known, under the term of breeding in-and-in. 1828 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 266 Their minds, if we may so express ourselves, bred in and in. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 163 The marrying in and in of the same family tends constantly to weakness or idiotcy. < as lemmas |
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