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单词 highest-priced
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highest-priced
(a) Parasynthetic (cf. high adj. and n.2 Compounds 3b), as highest-priced, highest-ranked, etc.
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a1626 A. Lake Serm. St. Maries Oxf. 479 in Sermons (1629) The highest minded sinners, their thoughts are but base and earthly.
1658 R. Brathwait Honest Ghost 86 If vertue..tax such vices as raigne now and then Amongst the best and highest-ranked men..; what's her reward But present censure, torture afterward?
1789 C. Beaumont Treat. on Coal Trade 39 All this danger and loss to the consumer, coal and ship owners, would be prevented, by fixing the highest priced coal, through the year, at thirty-seven shillings per London chaldron.
1820 Q. Rev. Oct. 114 The highest peaked hill between the Sutlej and the Jumna..is the Choor.
1844 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 37 40 Lava..would glide along the under part of the solid crust, and settle at the highest vaulted cavities.
1903 Rep. Kansas State Board Agric. 1901–2 iii. 360 Auctioneer Judy called for a..ringer for..[the man] who had sold the highest-priced beef steer in the world.
1993 Evening Standard (Nexis) 20 Apr. 56 The resulting bowl would provide 86,000 seats under the highest roofed sports stadium in the northern hemisphere.
2013 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 26 Aug. (Sports section) 41 You either need to own a bank or rob one to afford the highest-priced tickets.
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