| 释义 |
‖ facile princeps, phr. and n.|ˈfæsɪliː ˈprɪnsɛps|
[L.]
(A person who is) easily first; the acknowledged leader or chief.
1834Greville Mem. (1874) III. xxii. 64 In the prime of life,..facile princeps in the House of Commons. 1858Trollope Three Clerks I. ii. 33 He..soon became facile princeps in the list of habitual idlers. 1861Two Cosmos i. vi, The facile princeps of the Whig Attorneys. 1863[see gipsiologist]. 1877Times 20 Dec. 7/3 In that [sc. political tergiversation] he is facile princeps, and has left all competitors behind. a1878G. G. Scott Lect. Med. Archit. (1879) II. xvi. 253 [St. Sophia's] is facile princeps among structures on the pendentive domical principle. 1931M. Summers Supernatural Omnibus 31 Dr. M. R. James..is, with the exception of Vernon Lee, of all writers of ghost stories to-day facile princeps. |