| 单词 | a per se a |
| 释义 | > as lemmasA per se a The letter A ‘by itself’, esp. when forming a word; (also) a unique or incomparable person or thing. Formerly also † A per se a. Cf. I per se at I n.1 1a, O n.1 1a, per se n.3 1a, and ampersand n. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [noun] > best thing or person highesteOE bestOE greatest?c1225 pridec1330 crestc1400 primrosea1450 outrepass1477 A per sea1500 primrose peerless1523 prisec1540 prime1579 surquidry1607 excellency1611 nonsuchc1613 crown jewel1646 top1665 patriarch1700 pièce de résistance1793 number one1825 business1868 resistance piece1870 star1882 mostest1889 koh-i-noor1892 best-ever1905 flagship1933 the end1950 endsville1957 Big Mac1969 mack daddy1993 a1500 Merchant & Son l. 39 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 135 Thou schalt be an a-per-sey, my sone, in mylys ij. or thre. a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid l. 78 in Poems (1981) 113 The flour and A per se Of Troy and Grece. ?a1535 To City of London (Vitellius) in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 276 London, thou art of townes A per se. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Gijv If they make them A per se Aes That none are like to them. 1578 Gude & Godlie Ballates 128 Christ Jesus is ane A per C, And peirlesse Prince of all mercy. ?a1610 A. Montgomerie Poems (1887) xxxv. 63 The mold is lost, vharin was maid This a per se of all. 1770 A. Brice Mobiad iv. 89 But—softly, Muse:—That Leader One display, Who struts such an important A per se. 1834 Gentleman's Mag. May 528/2 The Cork tree as Messrs. Whitley's, at Fulham, is far finer than those at Chelsea; and the Fulham Oak is an absolute A-per-se. 1859 Brownson's Q. Rev. Apr. 10 The ‘Memoirs of Libraries’, by Mr. Edwards, is an A per se A. 1916 G. Saintsbury Peace of Augustans vii. 284 The Critic, it has been confessed, is less of an a-per-se. 1926 L. Abercrombie Romanticism iii. 157 The person of Satan, the A per se of romantic rebellion. < as lemmas |
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