单词 | player-like |
释义 | player-likeadj.adv. rare after 17th cent. Like or befitting an actor. Also as adv. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [adjective] player-like1548 playerly1571 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark iv. f. 24v Farre from all manour of playerlyke [L. scenica] ostentation. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. ii. f. 12 A man..speaketh a playerlike kinde of lightnesse. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. ii. sig. C3v See I cloth'd my limbes (thus Player-like in Rich Attyres, not fitting mine estate, and am come forth. 1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 123 Pageants, Theaters, Sceans, and Player-like representations, in making a puppet-play. 1738 Young Senator 4 He has it all by Heart, And, Player-like, is ready for his Part. 1827 T. Carlyle E. T. W. Hoffmann in German Romance II. 195 From all this there grew up in Hoffmann's character something player-like, something false, brawling, and tawdry. 1998 N. de Somogyi Shakespeare's Theatre of War iii. 122 Players represented soldiers on their stages, mimicking in some cases their counterparts' player-like behaviour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.1548 |
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