单词 | amicitial |
释义 | amicitialadj. Now rare. Of or relating to friendship; friendly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adjective] > intimate or familiar > of or relating to private friendship amicitial1650 1650 S. Hudson Vindic. Essence & Unity Church Catholike Visible Table sig. **2 Not amicitial or fraternal only, but authoritative, the greater part to regulate the lesse. a1774 R. Fergusson Poet. Wks. (1799) ii. 214 Nor drank one amicitial swelling cup To welcome him convivial. 1801 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 734 The Oreads & the Dryads are the very best Ladies in the World for him to form a long amatory connection with:—amatory, I say, as contradistinguished both from the conjugal and the amicitial connections. 1863 C. Clarke Charlie Thornhill xii. 196 She had a limit to her amicitial relations, and had mentioned not even the name of Charles Thornhill..to Lady Lucy Trevanon, the supposed friend of her bosom. 1996 B. H. Rosenwein in S. K. Cohn & S. A. Epstein Portraits of Medieval & Renaissance Living i. 98 This is the place..to note the web of familial and amicitial relationships that made Berta's monastery more than merely the recipient of a few royal concessions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1650 |
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