单词 | atheling |
释义 | athelingn. Obsolete exc. Historical. A member of a noble family, a prince, lord, baron; in Old English poetry often used in plural for ‘men’ (viri); in later writers often restricted as a historical term to a prince of the blood royal, or even to the heir apparent to the throne. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [noun] > royal person(s) > prince athelingOE princea1350 realc1440 riala1450 serenissimo1665 serenissime1881 OE Crist I 158 Þu miltseon us gecyðcynelice, Crist nergende, wuldres æþeling. OE Genesis 1868 Heht him wine ceosan, ellor æðelingas, oðre dugeðe. OE Genesis (Gr.) 1161 Héht him céosan æðelingas. 1057 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) On þisum geare com Ædward æðeling Eadmundes sunu cynges hider to lande. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2681 Heo axeden aðelinges [c1300 Otho cnihtes] wer leye þa kinges. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 354 Þe kunde eir, þe ȝonge chyld, Edgar Aþelyng. Wo so were next kyng bykunde, me clupeþ hym Aþelyng. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. Rolls Ser. 277 Comounliche he þat comeþ of kynges blood is i-cleped Adelyngus. 1756 T. Nugent tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Spirit of Laws (1758) II. xxx. xix. 384 Six hundred sous for the murder of an adeling. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. ii. 100 On the same footing with the etheling, or princes of the blood. 1861 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops I. iii. 142 In the Atheling Alchfrid, Wilfrid had a friend. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 335 Eadgar the Ætheling was elected in 1066. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.OE |
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