单词 | well-dispositioned |
释义 | > as lemmaswell-dispositioned C5. Forming parasynthetic adjectives in -ed, as well-ancestored, well-dispositioned, well-eared, etc.Cf. Old English welwillednes benevolence, goodwill (see well-willed adj.). ΚΠ OE Regularis Concordia (Corpus Cambr.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1890) 84 6 Þæt is, þæt..acwuncenum eallum leohtum gan twa cild welgestemnede and to þam foresceawode to þan suðportice mid gedremum swege singan hludre stefne Kyrielejson. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8571 Þikke mon he was ynou..wel iboned [c1450 Cambr. Univ. boned] & strong. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 359 I and þow be here allone, iliche wel i-horsed and i-wepened. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 442/2 This sworde is well backed. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 495 Of bodie he was slender,..well membred, and strongly made. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xviii. 34) i. f. 63 He had bin a well-sinewed man. 1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly sig. K3 The Gentleman is well forehanded and well foreheaded. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xlii Why perfectly limmed, not a cripple? Why well-sensed, not a foole? 1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. vii. 52 That those that shall be received, be thereto called by God, and be well-dispositioned. 1704 D. Defoe Hymn to Victory lx. 41 Old English Courage scorns those trifling things, The Higher Ground, the Well-flank'd Wings. ?1707 J. Grubb Brit. Heroes vii. 8 Castor the Flame of fiery Steed With well Spur'd Boots took down. 1804 W. Mitford Inq. Princ. Harmony Lang. (ed. 2) 372 A well-eared poet will of course avoid cacophony in rimes. 1855 Poultry Chron. 3 452 Her eggs are well formed and well-shelled. 1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos xi. 326 The formidable Shark,..a well-toothed adult. 1891 Harper's Mag. July 318/1 The well-ancestored, rich,..respectability from which she springs. 1894 Outing Sept. 427/2 The five brace of grand, plump, well-plumaged birds. 1902 J. Beatty tr. I. Bartholdsson Acolhuans ii. 17 I had striven to treat Leif and Guttorm with the consideration due to honest and well-lineaged gentlemen. 1998 J. Feather Emerald Swan iv. 52 If asked for his ideal of womanhood Gareth would have produced a description of Charlotte: tall, deep-bosomed, well-hipped. < as lemmas |
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