单词 | half-friend |
释义 | > as lemmashalf-friend a. With nouns denoting persons, as in half-barbarian, half-believer, half bringer, half christian, half convert, half-defender, half deliverer, half-enemy, half fool, half-friend, half-literate, half-savage. Now somewhat rare. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [adjective] halfa1300 brokec1380 incompletec1380 imperfecta1398 infecta1398 unperfecta1398 uncompletec1430 unfullc1450 partile1576 unentire?1605 half-faced1607 fragmentary1612 broken1634 partiary1654 fractional1675 fractionarya1690 half-way1694 fragmentala1763 half-and-half1796 fragmentitious1827 incompleted1836 sectional1848 mincemeaty1870 OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 27 Semiuir healfmann. OE Prudentius Glosses (Boulogne 189) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Prudentius Glosses (1959) 56 Semipes : healffeþe. a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 50 (MED) An half frynde tariere to soule helthe..seith that he wil not leevyn the forseyd sentense of myraclis pleyinge. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 78 (MED) Euer eiþer of ȝou [sc. Father and Son] is ful hool and parfit bringer forþ of þe same holigoost and ful deliverer of hise goodis, and not oon of ȝou an half brynger and an half deliuerer wiþ oþer. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. iv. sig. Ffff.vv/2 Both dawes and halfe fooles may bee made ministers or byshoppes. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. v. f. 116v The greater part whereof being halfe christians. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxii. 143 To speake as halfe defendors of the faults. a1765 E. Young Wks. (1767) IV. 81 Half converts to the right. 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) ii. 120 A parcel of half-barbarians. 1836 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 25 5 See how incapable half-savages are of co-operation. 1838 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 28 454 The sceptics and half-believers of the story. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 399/2 The uneasy half-literates who like to prove that they can spell. 2007 D. T. Courtwright in M. C. Carnes Columbia Hist. Post-World War II Amer. xiv. 335 Like the Democrats of the 1940s and 1950s, the Republicans had become an uneasy coalition of half-enemies. < as lemmas |
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