| 单词 | infant commerce |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinfant commerce b. appositive (or adj.). In its earliest stage, newly existing, ungrown, undeveloped, nascent, incipient, as infant blossom, infant civilization, infant code, infant colony, infant commerce, infant community, infant convert, infant fruit, infant industry (see quot. 1914), infant letters, infant navy, infant sorrow, infant spring, infant world, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > in early stages buddinga1586 infant1594 embryon1613 embryous1628 inchoateda1631 inchoativea1631 crepusculous1646 rudimentary1648 rudimental1658 embryo1659 incipient1669 crepuscular1679 dawninga1700 initiant1740 germing1749 embryotic1761 germinal1804 embryonic1825 embryonary1833 inchoanta1876 adawn1881 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H3 Old woes, not infant sorrowes beare them milde. View more context for this quotation 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vi. 150 Upon observation of a young and Infant-Apple. 1707 J. Archdale New Descr. Carolina 23 Vast expence upon such an Infant Colony. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 88 The soil that arts and infant letters bore. 1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. II. 144 Of all the infant settlements in America, New-England alone..acknowledged the authority of the commonwealth. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 43 Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees. View more context for this quotation 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 81 The ruin of commerce and the almost total extinction of an infant credit. 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 146 She was a Goddess of the infant world. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 412 The unequal contest..of England's infant navy against the..supremacy of the Hanseatic Confederacy. 1870 Congress. Globe App. 29 Mar. 240/3 But, argue our defenders of monopoly, let us protect our infant industries, and when they have grown to manhood..they will need no further protection. 1906 Daily Chron. 17 Oct. 6/5 The argument for Protection there is not at all the infant-industry argument. 1914 A. C. McLaughlin & A. B. Hart Cycl. Amer. Govt. II. 176 Infant Industry. This term is applied to the need of protecting new industries in order to give them opportunity to compete with older foreign establishments. < as lemmas |
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