单词 | middle one |
释义 | > as lemmasmiddle one middle one n. see sense A. 1b. middle one b. Designating the second in age of three siblings. Similarly (colloquial) middle one. In Middle English also in superlative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > next-born, last-born, etc. middlec1275 youngest-borna1325 next-born?a1400 last-born1609 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 2116 Cambert hehte þe oðer þat wes þe midleste broðer. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) 12909 After him was an oþer Þat was þe middel broþer. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 770 (MED) Þe midel soster a gile fond. a1425 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Linc. Inn) (1927) 458 Þenne com forþ alisaunder Parys Þe Kyngis medlyste sone of prys. c1447 in F. M. Nichols Lawford Hall (1891) App. 22 John Baddele wedded Agnes the middell daughter of Thomas Cokefeld. ?1530 St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student vii. f. xv If there be thre bretherne and the mydlest brother purchase landes [etc.]. 1612 N. Field Woman a Weather-cocke i. i I was Knighted a purpose to come a wooing to Mistris Lucida, the middle Sister, Sir Iohn Worldlyes second daughter. 1688 J. Barker Poet. Recreations (title of poem) The middle sister, ascribed to Clarinda. 1758 J. Dalrymple Ess. Hist. Feudal Prop. (ed. 2) v. 176 A middle brother dying without children, and leaving an elder and younger brother alive. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 522 She should have a writ of partition at common law, against the middle sister. 1891 Catholic World Mar. 831 The good judge's wife was not quite satisfied with this ‘boy's education’ for her middle daughter. 1901 H. V. Esmond Wilderness iii. 56 I was a parson's daughter—the middle one of nine. 1929 Punch 11 Oct. 410/3 My middle sister, Emily, announced one evening that she dreamt three nights running that her name was Brown. 1976 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Apr. 238/2 It is the ‘middle child’ that gives the important information. 1990 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) May 111/2 I graduated at St David's Hall..with my parents, my husband and my middle one in attendance. < as lemmas |
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