单词 | brother uterine |
释义 | > as lemmasbrother uterine brother uterine n. [after post-classical Latin frater uterinus (Vulgate; also uterinus frater)] a man or boy sharing a mother, but not a father, with another person; a half-brother on the mother's side; cf. brother consanguinean n., brother-german n. ΚΠ ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 295 (MED) Medardus the confessor, and Gildardus byschop Rotomagense, were in this tyme, bothe breþer uteryne, borne in oon day. 1605 G. Buck Daphnis Polystephanos sig. A4 Hee had Edmond creaeted Earle of Richmond by King Henry the sixt, his brother vterine. 1764 R. Douglas Peerage Scotl. 55/1 John earl of Athole, brother uterine to King James II. 1887 Lucifer 15 Nov. 220 The lads who were not brothers uterine were made brothers of the Totem at what was termed the festival of young-man-making. 1993 H. L. MacQueen Common Law & Feudal Society in Medieval Scotl. ix. 262 Emma of Smeaton had a brother Nicholas, who might be expected to have had a better claim than she did to the lands unless he was a brother-uterine. < as lemmas |
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