| 单词 | on the mother's side |
| 释义 | > as lemmason (also by, †of) the (also his, her, etc.) mother's side mother's side n. maternal descent; chiefly in on (also by, †of) the (also his, her, etc.) mother's side. ΚΠ c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 63 (MED) Than was þis man medeled with too blodis, Norman of þe fader side, Englisch of þe moderis side. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 471 By my mothers side I had, and haue many noble, and braue friends as any man can haue. 1724 J. Henley et al. tr. Pliny the Younger Epist. & Panegyrick I. i. xiv. 34 His Grandmother of the Mother's side is Serana Procula of Padua. 1835 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 558 (note) Alcibiades, who, on the mother's side, was sprung from Cœsyra. 1919 Amer. Anthropologist 21 28 The sib..excludes one half of the blood-kindred—the father's side of the family in matronymic, the mother's side in patronymic societies. 1996 S. Deane Reading in Dark (1997) iii. 116 Great-uncle Constantine, on my mother's side, was the sole family heretic. < as lemmas |
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