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单词 well-descended
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well-descendedadj.

Brit. /ˌwɛldᵻˈsɛndᵻd/, U.S. /ˌwɛldəˈsɛndəd/, /ˌwɛldiˈsɛndəd/
Forms: see well adv. and n.4 and descended adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., descended adj.
Etymology: < well adv. + descended adj.
Now archaic and rare.
Of good lineage; (also occasionally of an animal) of good stock.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [adjective] > of descent or breeding
ykynde1420
generous1574
well-bred1585
well-descended1591
well nutrimenteda1592
high-descended1600
well-derived1600
high-bred1613
highly bred1625
high-blooded1632
of (good, noble, etc.) familya1639
pedigree1861
1591 A. Colynet True Hist. Ciuill Warres France v. 301 The Duke of Sauoy on the other side, thought himselfe so well descended in blood, that he..thought it very conuenient for himselfe to enlarge his dominions.
1595 G. Markham Gentlemans Acad. f. 83v But if hee be a man well descended..then may he beare his fathers coate in such a chiefe, and his mothers in the lower part of the shielde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 304 Stay, Sir King. This man is better then the man he slew, As well descended as thy selfe. View more context for this quotation
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) i. 3 A well-descended Gentleman.
1650 R. Heath Clarastella 13 But she is high and wel-discended; true; My birth stiles me as freeborn too.
1732 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 672/2 Pleas'd oft she'd tell his well-descended Race, Smooth his fine Neck, his Main in Ringlets trace.
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 269 A rich and well-descended country gentleman.
1879 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Austral. Grazier's Guide (1994) I. ii. 27 How shall we divine the delicate shades which subsist between good, kindly, well-descended stock, ‘brought well’, and wild ‘scrubbers’,..impossible to sell?
1911 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 15 Apr. 1136/1 A well-descended and highly endowed youth, who studied in Parisian, German and Dutch universities.
2002 N. Cohen Reconstruction of Amer. Liberalism 1865–1914 102 Mary Hone Ogden, the daughter of a well-descended and wealthy New York businessman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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