单词 | alpestrious |
释义 | † alpestriousadj. Obsolete. rare. Mountainous; alpine. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > characterized by mountuousa1382 fellish1570 mountainy1591 mountainous1598 mountainly1603 alpestrious1615 montanous1623 montanic1799 mountained1820 1615 E. Sandys Sacred Hymns 54 Prepare, make plain his way; who o're alpestrious place Coms marching toward his seat elect. 1625 J. Minsheu Ductor in Linguas (ed. 2) 25 Alpestrious, mountainous, craggie, hillie. G[allica] Alpéstre, dict. de Alpibus. 1853 F. von Mueller Let. 3 Feb. in Regardfully Yours (1998) I. 139 My first..journey to the Australian alps..with a view to ascertaining..the connexion likely existing between the vegetation of the only alps of this continent known (Mount William of the Grampians being merely alpestrious). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1615 |
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