单词 | court-like |
释义 | court-likeadj. a. After the style or manner of the Court; courtly, elegant, polite. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > [adjective] polisheda1382 dainteousc1386 polite?a1500 delicatea1533 courtly1535 civil1551 court-like1552 well-refined1575 nice1588 perpolite1592 politic1596 soft1599 terse1628 refine1646 refined1650 elegant1652 genteel1678 chastea1797 spirituala1806 aesthetic1844 nicey1859 raffiné1865 nuttish1869 too-tooa1884 sophisticated1895 lavender1928 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] > well-mannered > courtly courtlyc1450 curial1478 court-like1552 courtierly1880 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum 1576 A. Fleming tr. Heraclitus in Panoplie Epist. 215 Abandoning all courtlike statelynesse. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1308/1 Of all the bishops in the land he was accounted the courtlikest and the best courtier. 1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 28 I think that our English tongue is..as courtlike as the French. 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune i. i. 3 Very Court-like, civil, quaint, and new. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. ii. i. 164 Her wit was keen and court-like. 1866 Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 5/4 In the words of a fashionable and courtlike journal. b. Resembling a court; see court n.1 2. ΚΠ a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §314 326 This ancient court-like house..is seated near a navigable river. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1552 |
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