| 单词 | ear-bored |
| 释义 | > as lemmasear-bored ear-bored adj. now rare that has the ears bored or pierced through (chiefly of a slave, with allusion to Exodus 21:6: see bore v.1 1c(a)). ΚΠ 1624 H. Burton Censure of Simonie xv. 106 A Simonist is a perpetuall eare-boared bond-slaue to his Patron. 1658 2nd Narr. Late Parl. in Select. Harleian Misc. (1793) 433 The ear-bored slavish citizens. 1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 64 Voluntary Ear-boar'd Slaves. 1766 T. Knight Serm. Important Subj. iii. 70 Christ was an ear-bored servant, and his heart was wholly in his work. 1852 E. Smith Inq. Scriptural & Anc. Servitude ii. 52 The Jubilee secured freedom to all the ‘inhabitants of the land’; in it the ear-bored servants, and bought servants, were free from their masters. 1911 Classical Jrnl. 7 60 If Apollonides was a Lydian, ear-bored or otherwise, he had attained a rather high rank in the army. < as lemmas |
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