单词 | living thing |
释义 | > as lemmasliving thing 9. A living organism; an animal or plant. Usually with modifying word, as living thing, growing thing, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [noun] thingc1300 vegetablec1484 plantisouna1500 plantouna1500 vegetabilitya1500 vegetativea1500 plant1551 fellow creature1572 vegetal1591 morea1599 vegetive1602 vegetant1605 vegetationa1641 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. lxxii. 146 Blodlæs is to forganne fiftyne nihtum ær hlafmæsse..forþon þonne ealle æterno þing fleogaþ & mannum swiðe deriað. OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) vii. 22 Ælc ðingc ðe lif hæfde wearð adyd on ðam deopan flode. a1250 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 4 Godes riche..þer ne mei..non liuiinde þing woc þer nis ne ȝeomer. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) l. 12804 He saide þat þar was icome a luþer þing to londe..a wel loþliche feond. 1372 in E. Wilson Descriptive Index Lyrics John of Grimestone's Preaching Bk. (1973) 26 (MED) Man is but a frele þing Fro þe time of is genning. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 385 (MED) Alkin things grouand sere..in þam self þaire seding bere. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 935 For eddris, spritis, monstris, thyng of drede. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie i. 2 What time euery growing thinge That ripeth by roote, hath liuely taken hart. 1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Bk. Medicines agaynst Venome in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 138 Least any venomous thing fall therein, as spyders. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 71 Noah..sau'd a seed-pay'r of all liuing things. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 194 When all things that breath,..send up silent praise To the Creator. View more context for this quotation 1708 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. I. 93 Of Creeping things, besides those in common with other Places on the Continent of America, the Rattle-snake is the most noted and dangerous. 1796 J. Aikin & A. L. Barbauld Evenings at Home VI. 125 Where it [sc. heat] most prevails,..nature is most replenished with all sorts of living and growing things. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 34 I wish no living thing to suffer pain. 1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 120/1 Nemophila, Coreopsis, and other free-growing things. 1905 F. Treves Other Side of Lantern ii. xvii. 115 A common of worn earth from which a million feet have scuffed whatever living thing has grown upon it. 1920 E. Wharton Let. 26 Dec. (1988) 437 My terraces were just beginning to be full of bursting sprouting things. 1981 N. Bawden Walking Naked (1993) iii. 117 Andrew is frightened of maggots and crawling things and of being shut in. 2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 Apr. 38/1 On Earth, most methane..comes from living things, such as the microbe-rich goop in swamps. < as lemmas |
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