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单词 well-named
释义 well(-)named, ppl. a.
1. Called by an appropriate or suitable name.
1445tr. Claudian in Anglia XXVIII. 269 This damysel corrupcion is right wele namyd.1861L. Campbell Theætetus p. vii, ‘It was written’ (so the last page informs us) ‘by the hand of John’, (well-named) ‘Calligraphus’.1879Symonds Shelley v. 129 This poem [Prometheus Unbound], they cried, is well named, for who would bind it?
2. Having a good name or reputation. Obs.
1390[see name v.1 2 b].c1450Knt. de la Tour ix. 12 A good woman, wel named and charitable.1460Paston Lett. I. 535, I comonyd late with a worschipful and a wele namyd, a good thrifty man of this cuntre.a1533[see name v.1 2 b].
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