| 单词 | elegant scholar |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselegant scholar a. Of a person: having superior taste or discernment; (modifying an agent noun) performing the specified activity with refined discernment. Now only in elegant scholar. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [adjective] chisa700 estfula1000 esquaymous1303 squeamousc1325 overnicec1350 curiousc1380 dangerousc1386 delicatea1393 preciousc1395 nicec1400 skigc1400 over-delicatea1425 daintethc1430 ticklec1456 quaint1483 dauncha1500 pickinga1500 feat?1529 elegant?1533 queasy1545 fine1546 fine-fingered1549 fastidious?1555 fine-mouthed1559 chary1567 weamish1571 saucy1573 dainty1576 superfine1576 niced1577 overcurious1579 nicing1581 fineish1582 prick-me-dainty1583 daint1590 finical1592 tiptoe-nice1593 nice1594 nicking1598 choice1601 squeamish1608 marchpane1609 hypercritical1611 particular1616 finicking1661 overcritical1667 just so1696 penurious1703 fal-lal1747 ogertful1754 nackety1756 quiddling1789 pernickety1808 pershittie1808 taffety1814 hypercritic1820 faddy1824 finicky1825 meticulous1827 daintified1834 squeamy1838 picksome1855 choosey1862 picky1867 hyperaesthetic1879 persnickety1885 précieux1891 perskeet1897 tasty1905 Nice Nelly1922 perfectionist1942 snicketya1960 perfectionistic1968 ?1533–4 R. Saltwood Compar. bytwene iiij. Byrdes sig. Cii Apt to honor is that elegaunt parson Which as in me lyke, in none hath perfectyon. 1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 3v A wall may bee colored by an elegant Painter, but the conceite and elegancie is more then the colour. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. i. sig. D5v As i'the Tertia o'the kitchin, your selfe Being a person, elegant in sawces. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1018 Thou art exact of taste, And elegant . View more context for this quotation 1734 A. Newton Lett. to Dr. Holmes (ed. 2) 25 Lord Macclesfield..was yet very Elegant in the Choice of Persons on whom to bestow his Spiritual Preferments. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. sig. c3v A very..elegant inquirer into the genius..of the northern nations. 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings II. ii. 118 An elegant spectator of the vegetable world. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 244 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar. 1906 C. Edmonds Early Sc. Church ii. xi. 161 He was a trained and elegant scholar, well fitted to labour for the conversion of the pagan Gauls. 2002 Independent (Nexis) 7 Mar. 6 Penning-Rowsell was a fastidious and elegant scholar and his work would have made any academic proud. < as lemmas |
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