单词 | parentage |
释义 | parentagen. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [noun] > conduct parentinec1460 parentage1490 parenting1918 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 123 Our fader..sholde have slayne vs, if it hadde not be our lorde that kepte vs therfro..Sore harde parentage [Fr. parentaige] dyd he shewe to vs, our naturell fader. 1623 J. Wodroephe Spared Houres Souldier 478/2 Good Amitie is a second Parentage. 1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. II. 99 Plato ordains community of wives, and interdicts parentage. b. The condition or status of a parent; parenthood. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [noun] parentality1780 parentship1838 parenthood1853 parentage1876 1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 165 This supposes that Tyre, since it had reached the age of political parentage, must have come into possession of considerable power some time before. 1877 E. S. Phelps Story of Avis xv. 275 Romances, in which parentage is represented as a blindly deifying privilege, which it were an irreverence to associate with teething..or an insufficient income. 1887 R. D. Blackmore Springhaven III. v. 54 Another race..with doubts whether marriage could make parentage between them. 1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Nov. 290/2 People marry, not only for parentage, but for this exquisite interchange. 1988 W. M. Clarke Secret Life Wilkie Collins xii. 141 ‘My two children’ (his first acknowledgement of parentage in print). 2. a. The origins of one's parents and ancestors in relation to inherited rank or character; hereditary status or quality. Usually with modifying word.The notion of good or high birth is usually understood when a modifying word is absent: see quot. 1608. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] kinc825 strindc900 maegtheOE i-cundeeOE birdeOE houseOE kindOE kindreda1225 bloodc1300 strainc1330 lineage?a1366 generationa1382 progenya1382 stock1382 nationc1395 tribec1400 ligneea1450 lifec1450 family1474 prosapy?a1475 parentage1490 stirpc1503 pedigree1532 racea1547 stem?c1550 breed1596 progenies1673 familia1842 uji1876 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xi. 41 They whiche ben borne of basse parentage. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxviij Cicile Duches of Yorke..a woman of small stature, but of muche honour and high parentage. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 649 Heyres of great parentage in the South part. 1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. Prov. xi–xii. 49 Poore women which neither haue parentage, nor beauty, nor riche apparel to set them forth. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iv. 32 He askt me of what parentage I was; I told him of as good as he. View more context for this quotation 1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. *2 Marc Antony..vex'd him with a great many Libelling Letters, in which he reproaches him with the baseness of his Parentage. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iii. 95 They upbraided him with the Meanness of his Parentage. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. xi. 99 Born of humble parentage. 1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. v. 67 Men of consular and quæstorial parentage. 1896 Argosy Mar. 549/1 A young man of distinguished parentage who..was eagerly entertained by the most prominent tuft hunters in New York. 1990 W. P. Roe Glimpses Chiswick's Place in Hist. 22 Cromwell..increased his troops.., enrolling godly men, often of poor and mean parentage, but inclined to his own Puritan thoughts. b. The identity of one's parents, now esp. as regards nationality or ethnicity; descent, lineage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] kinc892 strindc900 i-cundeOE bloodOE kindredOE birtha1250 strainc1275 gesta1300 offspring?a1300 lineagea1330 descentc1330 linec1330 progenya1382 generationc1384 engendrurec1390 ancestry?a1400 genealogya1400 kind?a1400 stranda1400 coming?a1425 bedc1430 descencec1443 descension1447 ligneea1450 originc1450 family1474 originala1475 extraction1477 nativityc1485 parentelea1492 stirpc1503 stem?c1550 race1563 parentage1565 brood1590 ancientry1596 descendance1599 breeding1600 descendancy1603 delineation1606 extract1631 ancestory1650 agnation1782 havage1799 engendure1867 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Parentela..Parentage: auncestrie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ii. 142 The elder [child],..ignorant of his birth and parentage, Became a Bricklayer, when he came to age. View more context for this quotation 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. C3v That doubly Honourable (both for his parts and parentage) Mr. Boyle. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. ix. 363 Settlements by parentage..all legitimate children being really settled in the parish where their parents are settled. 1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. ix. 134 He'll do it any day o' the week..let alone Saturdays—of course the speaker was a Marylander of Irish parentage. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 714 The alleged parentage of her son Harold was generally doubted. 1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. iii. 16 Annabel was, like the writer, of mixed parentage: half-English, half-Dutch, in her case. 1984 J. Morgan Agatha Christie ii. 26 There was also a mystery about Vera's parentage (as girls of Agatha's age often wish there might be about their own). 2001 V. Prashad Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting iii. 83 The important Trinidadian labor leader of the 1920s was Charles Henry Pierre, a well-known dougla (the word, often pejorative, is used to index those of Afro-Indian parentage). c. In extended use: the source or origin of something. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] welleOE mothereOE ordeOE wellspringeOE fathereOE headeOE oreOE wellspringOE rootc1175 morea1200 beginningc1200 head wella1325 sourcec1374 principlea1382 risinga1382 springinga1382 fountain14.. springerc1410 nativity?a1425 racinea1425 spring1435 headspring?a1439 seminaryc1440 originationc1443 spring wellc1450 sourdre1477 primordialc1487 naissance1490 wellhead?1492 offspringa1500 conduit-head1517 damc1540 springhead1547 principium1550 mint1555 principal1555 centre1557 head fountain1563 parentage1581 rise1589 spawna1591 fount1594 parent1597 taproot1601 origin1604 fountainhead1606 radix1607 springa1616 abundary1622 rist1622 primitive1628 primary1632 land-spring1642 extraction1655 upstart1669 progenerator1692 fontala1711 well-eye1826 first birth1838 ancestry1880 Quelle1893 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions v. 35 This worde, γραμματικὴ, with..γραϕικὴ, both the two of one parentage and petigree. 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. ii. 9 We shall find it to spring from honourable parentage. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 485 That admirable system of maxims and unwritten customs, which is now known by the name of the common law..doubtless of Saxon parentage. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 153 The superstition..is of very ancient and respectable parentage. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 436 Sin..shows by ethical likeness its Satanic parentage. 1933 Discovery Mar. 76/2 The runner bean..of Mexican parentage or origin is here grown as a tender annual. 1992 Car Feb. 42/3 Befitting its Lexus parentage, the Aristo is eerily quiet on the move. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > [noun] > collectively genitor1447 parentagea1513 parentdom1840 a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xviii. sig. f.iiii This blessed Audry, from her yonge aege Was..Obedyent lowly, vnto her parentage. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. X7v He..Inquyrd, which of them most did loue her parentage. 1877 G. M. Hopkins Let. 23 July (1955) 42 Parentage of course will ‘put me up’, at Hampstead. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] sibOE kindredOE sibredlOE sibnessa1250 sib-lawc1275 kindheadc1325 cousinagec1350 kinheada1375 affinitya1382 kindnessc1390 parentelec1390 parentelac1415 parentage1548 relation1561 cousinship1570 connatenessa1652 relationship1724 kindredship1733 connection1773 familyhood1808 kindredness1826 kinsmanship1842 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] kinc825 sibOE kindredOE sibness?a1300 kindc1325 affinity1357 cousinagea1382 cognationc1384 kinhoodc1440 kinsfolkc1450 evenkina1500 relation1502 kindsfolk1555 folks1715 cousinhood1748 loved onea1756 parentage1768 concerns1818 belonging1842 cousinry1844 cousinship1865 kinspeople1866 kinfolk1873 1548 Duke of Somerset Epist. Inhabitauntes Scotl. A iv b By mariage..one bloude, one lignage and parentage, is made of twoo. c1555 H. Watson tr. Valentine & Orson (1937) 216 We wyl neuer let hym lyue nor holde hym of our parentage. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1646/2 By equalitie and loue, whyche is by parentage and mariage. 1657 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Politick Disc. 56 If Cato had not despised the Parentage offered him by Pompey. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xvi. 310 The Souldier is also Priviledg'd to make a Will; and to give away his Estate which he got in War..without Consideration of Parentage, or Relations. 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) ii. 93 Signor Luiggi Giafferi..who had a numerous parentage. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > types of tenure by inheritance Borough-English1327 parage1450 courtesy1523 homage ancestral?1538 borough-kind1577 tanistrya1599 borough-tenurea1670 parentage1728 curiality1861 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Parage This Parage being an Equality of Duty or Service among Brothers and Sisters, some have call'd it Fratrage and Parentage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1490 |
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