单词 | centaur-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈcentaur-like ˈcentaur-like adv. and adj. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. v. sig. R2 As if Centaurlike he had bene one peece with the horse. 1621 W. Slatyer Hist. Great Britanie iii. iii. 67 From Troian Brute deriu'd, they sayne, These Centaure-like huge monsters raigne. 1653 W. Hemings Fatal Contract So Centaur-like he's anckor'd to his seat. 1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 348 In the middle of this Plate is delineated a very strange Centaur-like Monster. 1740 Liberty Regain'd 11 Long, Centaur like, with Argus Eyes, he'd rang'd These lovely Plains, unsatiated with Spoils. 1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 59 176/2 The centaur-like cavalry, and stealthy riflemen..became apparent. 1906 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 26 17 Achelous, who is here represented centaur-like with a man's body growing out of a bull's. 1967 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Feb. 497/3 In Germany, where that centaur-like clinician, the neuro-psychiatrist, still flourishes. 2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 22 June Two pairs of dancers are entwined with black skirts to become centaur-like figures. < as lemmas |
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