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单词 newdigate
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Newdigaten.

Brit. /ˈnjuːdɪɡət/, /ˈnjuːdᵻɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈn(j)udəˌɡeɪt/
Forms: 1800s Newdegate, 1800s– Newdigate.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Newdigate.
Etymology: < the name of Sir Roger Newdigate (1719–1806), antiquary and M.P. for Oxford University.
I. Compounds.
1. attributive. Designating or relating to a prize awarded at Oxford University for English verse, founded by Sir Roger Newdigate in 1805.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > prize poem or poetry prize
Seatonian prize1795
Newdigate1810
Chancellor's Prize Poemc1878
1810 G. Chinnery Statue of Dying Gladiator 6 This is the Newdigate Prize Poem which is restricted to 250 lines.
1823 J. S. Boone (title) The Farnese Hercules: the Newdigate prize poem for the year 1817.
1852 Prospective Rev. 8 523 These [sc. the mechanical parts of rhythm and metre] any industrious person will find in any collection of the Newdegate forms [1965 Newdigate poems].
1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. viii. 414 I am not going to have the Newdigate prizeman shown as brother to a scare-crow.
1929 Ld. Birkenhead Hundred Best Eng. Ess. 386 He subsequently entered Christ Church, Oxford, and won the Newdigate Prize.
1986 Dict. National Biogr. 1971–80 at Laver, James In 1921 he won the Newdigate prize with a poem on Cervantes.
II. Simple uses.
2. The Newdigate prize; (also, occasionally) a poem which wins, or could win, this prize.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] > literary prize
Newdigate1853
1853 G. Murray (title) The Oxford ars poetica: or, how to write a Newdigate.
1860 J. A. Symonds Let. 15 June (1967) I. 245 I am so glad you are pleased about the Newdigate.
1931 ‘G. Trevor’ Murder at School i. 12 So far he seemed to have done nothing in life except win the Newdigate.
1975 Times 25 Aug. 5/7 John Buchan..won the Newdigate and was President of the Union.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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