| 单词 | pious founder |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspious founder pious founder n. the founder of a college, school, order, etc., endowed for religious purposes. ΚΠ 1627 W. Balcanquhall Statutes Heriot's Hosp. in G. Heriot Last Will (1835) 42 The bountiefull mantenance wch they living thair receave from the charetie of thair pious founder. 1746 T. Warton Progress of Discontent 120 And din'd untax'd untroubled, under The portrait of our pious founder. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. x. 180 Our immense possessions in every kingdom of Europe, our high military fame..these are dedicated to ends of which our pious founders little dreamed. 1931 V. Woolf Waves 65 I see the statue of our pious founder with the doves about his head. 2000 Hist. Today (Nexis) 1 Jan. 62 Unfortunately, our school's pious founder, Sir Edmund Shaa, had been a henchman of the arch-Yorkist villain, Richard III. < as lemmas |
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