| 单词 | novitiate thinker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnovitiate thinker C2. Appositive, as novitiate candidate, novitiate thinker, etc. ΚΠ 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 6 Holding this Indian razor between their fore-finger and thumb, they deplume themselves, after the manner of the Jewish novitiate priests. 1788 N. Tucker tr. E. Swedenborg Wisdom of Angels iv. §341. 311 When they are opened a little, as is the Case when novitiate Devils enter. 1802 Lamb in Athenæum (1888) 4 Aug. 171/3 Now that..Mr. Cooke is no longer a novitiate candidate for public favour. 1885 H. O. Forbes Naturalist's Wanderings Eastern Archipel. 468 The novitiate gold-washer..accompanies the Dato to the river. 1898 Mind 7 556 It contradicts the internal category of self-activity, and the novitiate thinker sets the latter aside, supposing that it is illusory. 1935 Amer. Mercury Feb. 253/1 There have been dude exploring parties on which the novitiate traveler pays to go with a leader. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways ii. xvii. 82 At the table, talk turned toward a Savannah visitor recuperating from a coronary bypass who had come to see his novitiate son. < as lemmas |
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