释义 |
islandish, a. rare.|ˈaɪləndɪʃ| [f. island n. + -ish1.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an island; insular.
1577Dee Gen. & rare Mem. in Arb. Garner II. 65 Our peculiar commodity (to our Islandish Monarchy, by God and Nature assigned). 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 8 Purposing first inuincibly to fortifie the chiefe and vttermost walles of his Islandish Monarchie, against all forreine encombrance possible. 1615E. S. Brit. Buss in Arb. Garner III. 648 This Islandish Monarchy. 1852Fraser's Mag. XLV. 246 To a moderate infusion of these prejudices..we do not object, but the misfortune is that we often find them put forth with too Islandish an intensity. |