单词 | poorly languaged |
释义 | > as lemmaspoorly languaged b. Having or speaking a language; (also) expressed in language of a particular kind. Chiefly with modifying word, as new-languaged, poorly languaged, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > using or speaking languages > [adjective] languaged1605 the mind > language > a language > using or speaking languages > [adjective] > (of a book, etc.) of a particular kind languaged1605 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence i. 5 This towre, by these new languaged masons thus left vnfinished. 1628 Bp. J. Hall Olde Relig. xii. ii. 121 How doth hee tell vs that in a strange languaged prayer the vnderstanding is vnfruitfull. 1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose iii. 339 The joint will, consent & aggreement of the severally Languaged? 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 408 He..many languag'd nations has survey'd. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 9 July 283/1 The stream of verse, and many-languaged prose. 1865 D. W. Thompson Wayside Th. of Asophophilos. i. 5 The many-languaged harbour. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 1st Ser. 151 That tree which Father Huc saw in Tartary, whose leaves were languaged. 1871 G. MacDonald Sonnets conc. Jesus v How had we read, as in new-languaged books, Clear love of God. 1933 E. A. Robinson Talifer ii. 26 Now my wicked uncle Was a dry-languaged man, who boiled his words Down to the bottom. 1940 C. Wright Mills in Amer. Sociol. Rev. 5 905 The social conduct or the (stated) programs of languaged creatures. 1965 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 34 171/2 We can at present secure a fair picture of the poorly languaged child or youth. 1992 New Yorker 13 Apr. 79/1 If Curtiss had been at the hospital's admissions desk on the day Genie arrived, she would have encountered a languaged person, in the sense that all children have some degree of language before they begin making use of it. < as lemmas |
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