infancyn.

/ˈɪnfənsi/

Etymology: < Latin infāntia inability to speak, childhood, < infānt-em infant n.¹: see -ancy suffix.

a. The condition of being an infant; the earliest period of human life, early childhood, babyhood.

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the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > babyhood or infancy

milkeOE

barnagec1400

infancec1400

infancya1513

babeship1542

babehood1548

cradle1555

cradle-hood1599

baby agea1617

biggin1616

babyship1617

dentity1638

babyhood1748

babyism1798

paphood1837

babydom1853

infanthood1862

infantage1866

tottledom1889

toddlerhood1917

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lviii. f. xx^v This was from his Infancy norysshed and brought vp among the Romaynes.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. v. sig. Ciii^v Hit shall be expedient, that a noble mannes sonne in his infancie haue with hym continually, onely suche, as may accustome hym by litle and litle to speake pure and elegant latin.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 169 A greuous burthen was thy berth to me, Techie and waiward was thy infancie.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 505 Seldom have I ceas'd to eye Thy infancy, thy childhood, and thy youth.

1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §1 The little, or almost insensible impressions on our tender infancies, have very important and lasting consequences.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 12 The helpless imperfect State of Infancy.

1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 151 Heaven lies about us in our infancy !

1871 Educ. Times 1 June 49 The child begins to emerge from the state which is properly called infancy; in truth, he is no longer an infant, for he is no longer speechless.

1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ ii In the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy, Simeon recognizes Jesus because he sees Him shining like a pillar of light in His mother's arms.

b. transferred. Second childhood, dotage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > second childhood

second childhood1549

second childishnessa1616

second infancya1627

second childship1691

infancy1697

twichild1889

1697 J. Dryden Ded. Georgics in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶2 An insipid Manhood, and a stupid old Infancy.

2. Law. The condition of being a minor; the period of life during which a person remains under guardianship (extending, in common law, to the end of the twenty-first year); minority, nonage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood > minority

nonage1400

less agec1436

minority1493

pupillarity1561

nonwit1571

pupilship1581

pupillage1590

pupil age1598

under-age1613

underagedness1648

infancy1658

leading-string1677

minorship1841

minorage1888

1658 H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports II. 320 Debt brought upon a Lease for years... The Defendant in Bar pleaded Infancy at the time of the Lease made.

1752 C. Viner Cancelled Will 1 July I give to the Chancellor and University of Oxford (to whom I think myself in some measure obliged to make some Amends for my Indiscretions there in my Infancy).

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Infancy 2. Civil infancy, extended by the English law to one and twenty years.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 22 We will consider the case of infancy, or nonage.

1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1842) II. 215 The ministerial party at Poona, who held and exercised the regency of that state in the infancy of the peshwa.

1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 40 It [sc. the right of advowson] was not vested in a guardian in socage, nor was he accountable for any presentation made during the infancy of his ward.

1900 N.E.D. at Infancy Mod. The defendant pleaded infancy, the goods having been supplied before he was of age.

3. figurative. The earliest period in the history of anything capable of development; the initial and rudimentary stage in any process of growth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s)

beginningc1200

calendsc1374

crepusculum1398

childhood1549

infancy1555

rudiments1566

primordium1577

primitives1602

inchoation1652

inceptive1728

incunabula1824

baby step1825

inchoate1845

incipiency1858

incipience1864

1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. cij^v He wrought miracles..euen in thinfancie of faythe.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island i. xlix. 13 Thrice happy was the worlds first infancie.

1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 62 There will be such advantage given to the Linen Manufacture in its Infancy.

1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. I. 154 Our present being is but the infancy of man.

1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 185 Our quartz interests are in their infancy.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 229 In the infancy of logic, a form of thought has to be invented.

4. concrete (chiefly rhetorical.) Childhood as embodied in living examples; infants collectively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [noun] > children collectively

young onec1384

infancy1609

infantry1616

olive plants1616

olive branch1655

little folk1689

little people1712

brattery1783

small people1829

nurseryful1879

rising fives1968

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 104 Soft infancie, that nothing canst but crie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 51 Sleepe she as sound as carelesse infancie .

1781 W. Cowper Charity 48 Nor age nor infancy could find thee there.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ii. 24 Old age and infancy Promiscuous perished.

1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cvi. 17 When tender infancy evinces needless terror at cow, or dog, or shaggy goat.

†5. In etymological sense: Inability or unwillingness to speak; speechlessness; silence. Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > [noun] > silence or not uttering

muteness1590

infancy1641

tacitness1657

ineloquence1843

tongue-tying1869

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 36 Dare not now to say, or doe any thing better then thy former sloth and infancy.

1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. v. 203 So darkly do the Saxon Annals deliver thir meaning with more then wonted infancy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	infancy
释义	infancyn. /ˈɪnfənsi/ Etymology: < Latin infāntia inability to speak, childhood, < infānt-em infant n.¹: see -ancy suffix. 1. a. The condition of being an infant; the earliest period of human life, early childhood, babyhood. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > babyhood or infancy milkeOE barnagec1400 infancec1400 infancya1513 babeship1542 babehood1548 cradle1555 cradle-hood1599 baby agea1617 biggin1616 babyship1617 dentity1638 babyhood1748 babyism1798 paphood1837 babydom1853 infanthood1862 infantage1866 tottledom1889 toddlerhood1917 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lviii. f. xx^v This was from his Infancy norysshed and brought vp among the Romaynes. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. v. sig. Ciii^v Hit shall be expedient, that a noble mannes sonne in his infancie haue with hym continually, onely suche, as may accustome hym by litle and litle to speake pure and elegant latin. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 169 A greuous burthen was thy berth to me, Techie and waiward was thy infancie. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 505 Seldom have I ceas'd to eye Thy infancy, thy childhood, and thy youth. View more context for this quotation 1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §1 The little, or almost insensible impressions on our tender infancies, have very important and lasting consequences. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 12 The helpless imperfect State of Infancy. 1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 151 Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! View more context for this quotation 1871 Educ. Times 1 June 49 The child begins to emerge from the state which is properly called infancy; in truth, he is no longer an infant, for he is no longer speechless. 1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ ii In the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy, Simeon recognizes Jesus because he sees Him shining like a pillar of light in His mother's arms. b. transferred. Second childhood, dotage. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > second childhood second childhood1549 second childishnessa1616 second infancya1627 second childship1691 infancy1697 twichild1889 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Georgics in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶2 An insipid Manhood, and a stupid old Infancy. 2. Law. The condition of being a minor; the period of life during which a person remains under guardianship (extending, in common law, to the end of the twenty-first year); minority, nonage. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood > minority nonage1400 less agec1436 minority1493 pupillarity1561 nonwit1571 pupilship1581 pupillage1590 pupil age1598 under-age1613 underagedness1648 infancy1658 leading-string1677 minorship1841 minorage1888 1658 H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports II. 320 Debt brought upon a Lease for years... The Defendant in Bar pleaded Infancy at the time of the Lease made. 1752 C. Viner Cancelled Will 1 July I give to the Chancellor and University of Oxford (to whom I think myself in some measure obliged to make some Amends for my Indiscretions there in my Infancy). 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Infancy 2. Civil infancy, extended by the English law to one and twenty years. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 22 We will consider the case of infancy, or nonage. 1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1842) II. 215 The ministerial party at Poona, who held and exercised the regency of that state in the infancy of the peshwa. 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 40 It [sc. the right of advowson] was not vested in a guardian in socage, nor was he accountable for any presentation made during the infancy of his ward. 1900 N.E.D. at Infancy Mod. The defendant pleaded infancy, the goods having been supplied before he was of age. 3. figurative. The earliest period in the history of anything capable of development; the initial and rudimentary stage in any process of growth. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) beginningc1200 calendsc1374 crepusculum1398 childhood1549 infancy1555 rudiments1566 primordium1577 primitives1602 inchoation1652 inceptive1728 incunabula1824 baby step1825 inchoate1845 incipiency1858 incipience1864 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. cij^v He wrought miracles..euen in thinfancie of faythe. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island i. xlix. 13 Thrice happy was the worlds first infancie. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 62 There will be such advantage given to the Linen Manufacture in its Infancy. 1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. I. 154 Our present being is but the infancy of man. 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 185 Our quartz interests are in their infancy. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 229 In the infancy of logic, a form of thought has to be invented. 4. concrete (chiefly rhetorical.) Childhood as embodied in living examples; infants collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > children collectively young onec1384 infancy1609 infantry1616 olive plants1616 olive branch1655 little folk1689 little people1712 brattery1783 small people1829 nurseryful1879 rising fives1968 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 104 Soft infancie, that nothing canst but crie. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 51 Sleepe she as sound as carelesse infancie . View more context for this quotation 1781 W. Cowper Charity 48 Nor age nor infancy could find thee there. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ii. 24 Old age and infancy Promiscuous perished. 1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cvi. 17 When tender infancy evinces needless terror at cow, or dog, or shaggy goat. †5. In etymological sense: Inability or unwillingness to speak; speechlessness; silence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > [noun] > silence or not uttering muteness1590 infancy1641 tacitness1657 ineloquence1843 tongue-tying1869 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 36 Dare not now to say, or doe any thing better then thy former sloth and infancy. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. v. 203 So darkly do the Saxon Annals deliver thir meaning with more then wonted infancy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1513
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