单词 | long stayer |
释义 | > as lemmaslong stayer 4. Modifying an agent noun: that performs the action of the verb for a long time, as long liver, long stayer, etc.Also in comparative and superlative (sometimes spec. in legal contexts in longer liver, longest liver, denoting a person who has outlived one or more others). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > survivor > in legal terms survivor1503 longer liver1522 longest liver1662 the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > long liver Methuselah1622 long liver1781 macrobiote1882 1522 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 238 The sayd Elizabethe nowe hys wyffe, yf she be longer lyuer. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 317/2 Longe taryer. ?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 241 Why am I longer liver? 1662 Bp. E. Hopkins Funeral Serm. (1685) 13 The longest liver hath no more but that he is longer a dying than others. 1753 Scots Mag. May 252/2 That survivancy of all the said offices be in the longest liver of the two. 1781 F. Burney Jrnl. Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 428 He is strong built,..I dare say he will be a very long liver. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 311 For and during the term of their natural lives, and the life of the longer liver of them. 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. v. 94 The qualities which make him likely to be a long-liver. 1933 R. G. Hill Fruit & Veg. Buying Guide U.S. Dept. Agric. Misc. Publ. No. 167 59 They [sc. Honeydew melons] are long keepers and may well be bought before they are fully ripe. 1976 C. I. A. Ritchie Frontier Parish ii. 41 All these troubles, for newcomers as well as for long stayers, were aggravated by the absence of a bishop. 1986 M. Salmon Women & Law of Prop. in Early Amer. vi. 134 As the longest liver, Moses Gill was entitled to hold the land until his death. 2011 J. Matthewson Rise of Global Nomad v. 76 For longer stayers the capital is seen as a little superficial. < as lemmas |
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