单词 | portlike |
释义 | † portlikeadj. Obsolete. Stately, dignified, imposing; = portly adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > splendour, magnificence, or pomp > [adjective] wlonkOE kine-wurtheOE reala1325 rialc1330 royalc1400 wlonkfulc1400 statelyc1415 pompousc1425 imperial?1435 pontificalc1440 sumptuous1472 magnific1490 magnificenta1530 statelike1534 pompatic1535 magnificala1538 princely1539 portly1548 regal1561 queen-like?1571 haughty1585 portlike1587 Minerva-like1598 lustrous1605 pompatical1610 pontificial1613 commandinga1616 pompal1616 grand1622 splendid1624 pontifician1629 regifical1656 queenly1791 presidential1804 angeliferous1837 slashing1854 sultanesque1862 pageanted1902 1587 A. Day Shepheards Holidaie in Longus's Daphnis & Chloe sig. K4 And port-like shewe beseeming such a Queene. 1598 T. James tr. G. Du Vair Moral Philos. Stoicks 187 As a sober grauitie maketh a man to be reuerenced of all: so a kinde of portlike and constrained austeritie, makes him to appeare ridiculous and odious vnto all. a1631 M. Drayton Poly-olbion in Wks. (1748) v. 262/2 Where once the portlike [1612, 1622 portly] oak, and large-limb'd poplar stood. 1632 in J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (ed. 3) Pref. Poem When first this portlike Frontispeece was wrought. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1587 |
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