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nephew|ˈnɛvjuː, ˈnɛfjuː|
Forms: α. 3–5 neueu(e, 3–6 neuew; 4–6 nevewe, 4, 6 neveu, (4 -oeu, 5 -ue); 4 neweu, (5 -ewe); 5 nepveu, -vew, 6 -evewe, -heu(e, -hue; neffewe, -ue; 5– nephew, (7 neiphew). β. 4 neuu, -ou, -ow; 4–6 nevow, (4 -ou, 5 -oue). γ. 4–9 Sc. nevo, 5 neuo, newo, nepho, 6 nepuo. δ. 4– Sc. nevoy, 6 newoy, nepvoy, 7 nephoy. ε. 6 neuie, -ye, 6–7 nevie, 6, 9 dial. nevy, 9 dial. nevey, neffi.
[a. OF. neveu (ONF. also nevu, nevou, nevo) = Prov. nebot, It. nepote, nipote:—L. nepōtem, acc. of nepos, grandson, nephew, descendant, related to OE. nefa: see neve.]
1. A brother's or sister's son; also, by extension, the son of a brother- or sister-in-law.
α1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 4508 Þo was þe king arþure vol of sorwe & sore,..Ac to awreke him of is luþer neueu, his herte bar alre best. c1350Will. Palerne 5098 Glad he was þat his neweu so nobul was wox. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 111 He wente into Egipt..forto see his suster and his nevewes. 1454Paston Lett. I. 298 To take possession and saison, in the name and to the use of our ful worshipful nepveu, th'erl of Warrewic. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xx. 63 Blanchardyn..ranne vpon Corbodas, that neuewe was to kynge Alymodes. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. 599 Use yourselfe to him as good uncles shulde do to their nephewes. a1586Sidney Arcadia (1613) 169 Euardes..had three Nephewes, sonnes to a sister of his. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 120 As Plinius the elder was wont to say unto his nephew. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. i. (1701) 41/2 He reposed his Head in the Bosom of his Sisters Son;..the Court dismist, he was found dead in his Nephew's Bosom. 1722De Foe Relig. Courtsh. i. iii. (1840) 79 What kind of a lady has my nephew got? 1749Fielding Tom Jones xviii. ix, ‘Mr. Jones your nephew, sir!’.. ‘He is indeed..my own sister's son.’ 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxiii, The interview between the uncle and nephew being thus concluded, the Prince retired. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. viii. 207 It was here that Abraham encamped with his nephew Lot.
βa1300Cursor M. 20551 Mi moder was ful wa for me, And sua was hir neuu iohan. c1320Sir Tristr. 737 He kist tristrem ful skete And for his nevou toke. 1468Paston Lett. II. 329 Wilbeloved nevoue, I recomaunde me to yow. 1508Dunbar Flyting 529 Nero thy nevow, Golyas thy grantsire.
γ1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 44 And specialy the erll Thomass Of Murreff, that his nevo was. c1470Henry Wallace ii. 431 Welcum, neuo, welcum deir sone to me. 1533Bellenden Livy iii. xiv. (S.T.S.) I. 301 C. Claudius..began to speik to his said nevo, erare in maner of prayer þan ony displesere. 1558Kennedy Compend. Tractive in Wodrow Misc. (1844) I. 97 To my derrest and best beluiffit Nepuo, Gilbert, Maister of Cassilis. 1678Anne Keith in Kirkton Ch. Hist. (1817) 357, I have written to your nevo the tresorer of Edin. 1844W. Cross Disruption i. (E.D.D.), To tell me that my nevo is comin' doun the burn-side.
δ1509Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 5 My son Hugh Hulley, and Sir Thomas Pilley my newoy. 1562Turner Bathes Ded., Duke of Summerset, and Protector of his Nepvoy King Edward the Sixt. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 107 Dawid Lyndsay..quhois nevoy, sone to Johnne his brother [etc.]. 1816Scott Old Mort. vi, Haud your peace, Alison! I was speaking to my nevoy. 1839Moir Mansie Wauch (ed. 2) xxvii. 359 A leather-cap, edged with rabbit-fur, for her little nevoy.
ε1530Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 285 To John Bradford, my nevy. 1555Eden Decades 40 Aries Pinzonus his neuie by his brothers syde. 1607in Antiquary XXXII. 242 To Symon hallyday, my nevie. 1840Hood Up Rhine 4 Nunky, Nevy and Watch go on as usual. [1848Dickens Dombey xxxii, Poor nevyless old Sol.] 1858–61Ramsay Remin. v. (1870) 117, I am real glad to find my nevy has made so good a choice.
b. Euphemistically applied to the illegitimate son of an ecclesiastic.
1587Harrison England ii. ii. (1877) 48 For nephues might say in those daies; ‘Father, shall I call you uncle?’ And vncles also; ‘Son, I must call thee nephue.’ 1617Moryson Itin. i. 104 The chiefe of these banished men was the Nephew (so they call Church-mens bastards) of the Cardinall Caietano. a1848G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West (1849) 218 They were probably his nieces and nephews—a class of relations often possessed in numbers by priests and monks. 1873Dixon Two Queens I. iii. ii. 125 More papal ‘nephews’ had been stalled and mitred in the English Church.
c. nephew-in-law, the husband of a brother's or sister's daughter. nephew-elect, one who is intended to have this relationship.
1834Tait's Mag. I. 381/2 It was not his fault that I, your nephew-elect, am not a Northamptonshire Squire. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xv, The company added their entreaties to those of his nephew-in-law. 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne II. x. 199 The..youth who purposes being my nephew-in-law.
†2. A brother's or sister's daughter; a niece.
1494Fabyan Chron. v. xcvii. 71 The beaute and great vertue of Clotildis, neuewe to Cundebald. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 712 To my nevoy Matildis, that hes richt Till all Ingland intill hir faderis sicht, I haif maid homage. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxxii. 155 The Athenians were wont to marry the brother with the sister, but not the Vncle with the nephew.
†3. A grandson. Obs. (Common in 17th c.)
α1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7709 Richard is o neueu brec þere is nekke þer to. c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 109 That thou..Hast served so ententtyfly Hys blynde nevewe Cupido. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 91 Scipio Nasica, þe greet Scipio þat heet Affricanus his nevewe. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Cc ij, Ye had your nevewes, sonnes of your chyldren, maryed. 1591Spenser Ruines of Rome viii, Vertuous nephewes..Striving in power their grandfathers to passe. 1632Holland Cyrupædia v. v. 115 Naturall children and nephewes [marg., childrens children, as we say unproperly, Grand-children]. 1656Trapp Exp. 2 Tim. i. 5 The grandmothers also..love their nephews better than their own immediate children. 1699Bentley Phalaris 43 Among the ancient Greeks the name of the Grandfather was commonly given to the Nephew.
γ δ1513Douglas æneis iv. iv. 86 The ȝong Ascanyus, Nevo to King Dardane and to Venus. 1579Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 140 He..as nevoy and air be progres of umquhile Andro Wod.., his guidsire. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 34 Gif ane man deceis, haueand ane after-borne sonne, and ane Nephoy of his first-begotten sonne [etc.].
†b. transf. (after L. use). A prodigal. Obs.—1.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 638/1 Whyther the olde holy doctours and saynctes..be better to be beleued.., or els these yong new naughty nephewes.
†4. A descendant; one of remote or unspecified degree of descent; a successor. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 263 Engistus and Horsus..were Woden his nevewes [L. abnepotes]. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. Rom. xi. 30 b, The Jewes..yf they this do not, then are they not his [Abraham's] neuewes. 1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 135 Thy childrens children & nephews to com. 1647Trapp Comm. 2 Cor. v. 10 On that day Adam shall see all his nephews together. 1676Glanvill Seasonable Reflect. 189 All the ancient Sages, with their Sons, and Nephews to the latest Posterity.
†5. A figure in geomancy. Obs. rare.
1591Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 9 Nowe resteth it to declare the making of the Nephews, with their qualities.
†6. A secondary shoot. Obs. rare—1.
1745tr. Columella's Husb. iv. vi, From that place from which you have taken away the nephew or secondary twig [L. nepotem], it presently pours forth another.
Hence ˈnephewship, the state or position of a nephew; † nepotism.
1647Hexham, Neefschap, nephewship. 1669Hist. Pope's Nephews ii. (1673) 80 If Nephewship ever did good in Rome, 'twas in the time of Pius the Fifth. 1857Borrow Rom. Rye ii, People..who..are disposed..to swallow the reality of the nephewship of Camillo Astalli. 1885Harper's Mag. Apr. 787/1 This good sonship and good nephewship. |