| 单词 | man's state |
| 释义 | > as lemmasman's state c. A person's status or condition as determined by his or her age. Also man's state: manhood; cf. man's estate at estate n. 1b. Now rare. [Compare post-classical Latin ad statum suum pervenire (6th cent., with reference to attaining the age of majority).] ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] eldOE yearsOE oldc1175 statea1350 agea1387 springs1597 seniority1776 standing1789 the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity > adulthood of man manhooda1393 man-statec1400 man-agec1425 man's agec1443 state1553 virility1586 beard1591 father-age1596 a1350 Body & Soul (Harl. 2253) l. 80 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 136 Þe seueþe day shule vp ryse..In stat of þrytty wynter, boþe ȝunge and olde. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 1 And hondred winter ȝef a leueþe, Þat his lyf mid þe lengeste. Onneþe creft eny þat stat. a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 15 Wiþinne a fewe dayes he schal so hool þat he schal fele him silf of þe statt and þe strenkþe of xl ȝeer; and he schal haue greet ioie þat he is come to þe statt of ȝongþe. a1500 R. Henryson Praise of Age 17 in Poems (1981) 166 The state of youth I repute for na gude, For in that state sik perilis now I see. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 118 When they come to mans state. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 3 The yong men after their..growth to mans state. 1685 G. Keith Divine Immediate Revelation (new ed.) iv. 129 Childish things,..belonging to a Childs state. 1777 Archaeologia 4 251 He when grown to man's state, coming hither to lie with her. 1843 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 40 126 His sons have longed reached man's state. 1916 Seven Arts Dec. 194 It would be better if he could measure what was actually possible, now and in his child's state. < as lemmas |
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