| 释义 |
stepson|ˈstɛpsʌn|
Also 1 stéop-, 5 styp-.
[OE. stéopsunu: see step-. Cf. Du. stiefzoon, MLG. stēfsone, OHG. stiufsun (MHG. stiefsun, G. -sohn), ON. stjúpsonr (Sw. styfson, Da. stifsøn).]
A son, by a former marriage, of one's husband or wife.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) F 210 Filiaster, steopsunu. c893[see stepfather]. c1150Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 538/5 Priuiuignus [sic], stepsune. c1205Lay. 32138 Yuor wes his step-sune. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1412 Tibery is stepsone after him com. 14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 605/4 Privignus, a stypsone. 1490Caxton Eneydos lxv. 164 Lauyne..retourned..to her stepsone ascanius. 1570Levins Manip. 164/26 A step son, priuignus. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 210 This Queene [Joan] endured some troubles in the raigne of her Stepsonne King Henry the fift. 1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) II. xlvii. 119 The stepson of Sylla. 1870Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 2) I. vi. 452 Where his banished step-sons were being brought up as his possible rivals. 1872Morley Voltaire 2 Calvin, again, like some stern and austere step-son of the Christian God. |