middle staten.

Brit.

/ˌmɪdl ˈsteɪt/, U.S.

/ˈmɪd(ə)l ˌsteɪt/

Forms: see middle adj. and state n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: middle adj., state n.

Etymology: < middle adj. + state n.

†1. An intermediate state or situation, esp. in relation to a person's life. Obsolete.

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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 122 Ine heuene heþ þri stages of uolke..þe þridde byeþ ine þe middel stat, þat gouerneþ wel.

1628 R. Hayman tr. Severall Sententious Epigr. 47 in Quodlibets Women doe fondly loue, or foulely hate; Their extreme passion hath no middle state.

a1645 W. Strode On Fayrford Windowes in Poet. Wks. (1907) 27 The limber corps..doth display A middle state twixt Flesh and Clay.

1709 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 378 We may look on it as the beginning of Vitrification, or a middle state between Metal and Glass.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 3 Mine was the middle State, or what might be called the upper Station of Low Life.

1734 A. Pope 1st Satire 2nd Bk. Horace to which is added 2nd Satire Same Bk. 29 He knows to live, who keeps the middle state, And neither leans on this side, or on that.

1790 Ld. Westmorland Let. 19 Nov. in W. E. H. Lecky Irel. in Eighteenth Cent. (1892) II. 453 Nor has any incumbrance..been laid on materials of manufacture in the raw or middle state, upon their exportation to Great Britain.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. iv. 86 Honesty, in the something between, in the middle state of worldly circumstances, is all that I am anxious for your not looking down on.

1880 R. H. Stoddard Poems 174 Between the neighbor lands of Joy and Wo There is a middle state where many dwell.

2. U.S. Any of the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and sometimes also Maryland and Delaware (which originally formed the middle part of the United States, intermediate between New England and the Southern states). Usually in plural.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > original middle states

middle state1781

1781 Pennsylvania Jrnl. 23 May 1/3 He will once in a while, i.e. sometimes, get drunk. [Used in] the middle states.

1848 J. F. Cooper Oak Openings I. xiii. 193 Who ever heard of the ‘tribe’ of New England, or..of the ‘tribe’ of the Middle States?

1948 Western Polit. Q. Sept. 244 The Herald..was probably the most valuable paper to any Northern men needing middle state and Southern votes.

1996 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 60 549 Thirty letters by Dr. Samuel Adams describing life among American soldiers campaining in New England and the middle states.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	middle state
释义	middle staten. Brit. /ˌmɪdl ˈsteɪt/, U.S. /ˈmɪd(ə)l ˌsteɪt/ Forms: see middle adj. and state n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: middle adj., state n. Etymology: < middle adj. + state n. †1. An intermediate state or situation, esp. in relation to a person's life. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 122 Ine heuene heþ þri stages of uolke..þe þridde byeþ ine þe middel stat, þat gouerneþ wel. 1628 R. Hayman tr. Severall Sententious Epigr. 47 in Quodlibets Women doe fondly loue, or foulely hate; Their extreme passion hath no middle state. a1645 W. Strode On Fayrford Windowes in Poet. Wks. (1907) 27 The limber corps..doth display A middle state twixt Flesh and Clay. 1709 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 378 We may look on it as the beginning of Vitrification, or a middle state between Metal and Glass. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 3 Mine was the middle State, or what might be called the upper Station of Low Life. 1734 A. Pope 1st Satire 2nd Bk. Horace to which is added 2nd Satire Same Bk. 29 He knows to live, who keeps the middle state, And neither leans on this side, or on that. 1790 Ld. Westmorland Let. 19 Nov. in W. E. H. Lecky Irel. in Eighteenth Cent. (1892) II. 453 Nor has any incumbrance..been laid on materials of manufacture in the raw or middle state, upon their exportation to Great Britain. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. iv. 86 Honesty, in the something between, in the middle state of worldly circumstances, is all that I am anxious for your not looking down on. View more context for this quotation 1880 R. H. Stoddard Poems 174 Between the neighbor lands of Joy and Wo There is a middle state where many dwell. 2. U.S. Any of the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and sometimes also Maryland and Delaware (which originally formed the middle part of the United States, intermediate between New England and the Southern states). Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > original middle states middle state1781 1781 Pennsylvania Jrnl. 23 May 1/3 He will once in a while, i.e. sometimes, get drunk. [Used in] the middle states. 1848 J. F. Cooper Oak Openings I. xiii. 193 Who ever heard of the ‘tribe’ of New England, or..of the ‘tribe’ of the Middle States? 1948 Western Polit. Q. Sept. 244 The Herald..was probably the most valuable paper to any Northern men needing middle state and Southern votes. 1996 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 60 549 Thirty letters by Dr. Samuel Adams describing life among American soldiers campaining in New England and the middle states. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1340
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