| 释义 |
fore-elders, n. pl. Chiefly northern.|ˈfɔərɛldəz|
For forms see elder.
[f. fore- prefix + elders. Cf. ON. foreldrar in same sense (Da. forældre, Sw. föräldrar parents).]
Ancestors, progenitors.
a1300Cursor M. 18362 (Cott.) Þou has þam drund and don forfare, Als þou til ur for-eildres suare. c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xvii. 6 As þare For-elderis ware slane to Dede. 1525Q. Marg. in M. A. E. Wood Lett. R. & Illustr. Ladies (1852) I. 372 They may..live under him as his subjects, as their foreelders has done in time past. 1627Sanderson Serm. I. 265 Our Romish catholicks often twit us with our fore-elders. What, say they, were they not all down-right papists? 1710Bp. Nicolson in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 359 Principles on which their fore-elders built the gude wark of reformation. 1843For. & Colon. Q. Rev. II. 349 The former must have been visited by the fore-elders of mankind earlier than Egypt. 1876Mr. Gray & his Neighbours I. 26 John Dannay lived upon his own lands as his fore-elders had done from time immemorial. |