| 单词 | father in the law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfather in the law c. †in law (of wedlock): lawfully married. Also in the combinations brother-in-law n., father-in-law n., etc., for which see those words; and in †law's father, †father in the law, rarely used for ‘father-in-law’; so also †mother of law. [Compare 16th cent. French pere en loi de mariage (Godefroy).] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective] > legally married in law (of wedlock)c1230 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > [noun] > father-in-law eldfatherc1200 father-in-lawa1382 father-law1445 good-father1488 law-father1582 law's father1593 stepfathera1640 dad-in-law1694 papa-in-law1821 pa-in-law1840 c1230 Hali Meid. 21 Þis is tenne hare song þat beon ilahe of wedlac. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2764 To wife in lage he hire nam. 1538 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 154 Ionat Barbour, his moder of law. 1552 H. Latimer Serm. 1st Sunday Epiph. (1584) 301 b The house where Jesus was, with his mother, and Joseph his Father in the lawe. 1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) i. pr. iv. 12 My holy lawes fathr Symmacus,..defendes vs from all suspicion of this cryme. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. i. 23 Their aunt I am in law, in loue their mother. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. vi. 61 And now by Law, as well as reuerent age, I may intitle thee my louing Father. View more context for this quotation] < as lemmas |
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