单词 | little waxen |
释义 | > as lemmaslittle waxen Grown up, full-grown, adult. little waxen, young. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > maturity > [adjective] oldlyOE rankOE ripedOE thowenc1200 waxena1325 ripea1393 thrivena1400 provect1531 big1552 mellowed1575 adulted1645 full agea1658 adult1742 ripeful?1836 unyouthful1859 untender1879 maturish1885 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > young (of beings) littleeOE youngOE younglyOE younglinga1250 little waxena1325 greena1398 imperfecta1398 primec1429 unold?1440 juvync1450 novelc1450 unaged1486 in youth's flowers?1507 unbearded1560 unweaned1581 whelpish1586 ungrown1593 under-age1594 unhatched1601 infantine1603 springalda1614 unbakeda1616 unlickeda1616 juvenile1625 lile1633 juvenal1638 bloomy1651 youngish1667 blooming1676 puerilea1680 youngerly1742 steerish1789 chota1814 white-shoe1960 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2060 Me drempte ic stod at a win-tre, Ðat adde waxen buges ðre. 1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 252 Himself in ille likyng, & had no waxen heyre, Þat mot kepe þe coroune, if he of lond went. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. iv. 23 A litle waxen man [L. adolescentulum]. 1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 161 When hit is a wixen tree, and hundrid oxyn vnneth hit may bowe. a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 21 In ȝong men..or waxen men, I hafe seene few [sc. fistulas] euer be cured. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1291/2 The Lordes supper is, and oughte to be geuen to them, that are wexen. 1599 1st Pt. Return fr. Parnassus ii. i. 812 Fonde they to thinke that this child's waxen daye Will be well spente when maister beares no swaye. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 415 Such a man can neither seduce his [pupil's] minority with ill examples, nor marre his waxen age with a false impression. < as lemmas |
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