| 单词 | by birth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby birth 10. The circumstances of a person's birth, considered in terms of the state or condition resulting from them. Chiefly in by birth. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > condition determined by kindc1175 birthc1540 c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 206v Teutro..Þat was Brother of birthe to þe bold thelamon. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 430 A Foe by Birth to Troy's unhappy Name. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. ix. 362 A legal settlement was declared to be gained by birth, or by inhabitancy, apprenticeship, or service, for forty days. 1886 A. E. Schlötel Still Wife's Sister II. xxxiii. 307 Pat is credulous, and believes, as he is told, that he is the son of the soil; his birth gives him ownership. 1948 Music & Lett. 29 80 They do not like to see him [sc. Mozart]..as the cosmopolitan artist he obviously is, who could be Germanic in his last opera, not because of his birth, but because he could be anything he chose. 2007 A. Zamoyski Rites of Peace (2008) vi. 85 Jean Anstett..was Alsatian by birth and therefore theoretically a renegade French subject. < as lemmas |
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