| 单词 | public-speaking |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspublic-speaking b. As the second element of various combinations, as evil-speaking, fair-speaking, great-speaking, public-speaking, true-speaking. †Also absol. ΚΠ c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xliii. 18 Fram þe voice of þe reproceand and þe oȝains spekand. ?a1366 Romaunt Rose 1268 A knyght..That worthy was and wel spekyng. 1388 J. Wyclif Psalms xi. 4 The Lorde destrie..the greet spekynge tunge. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 211 That he bene corteyse, wel Spekynge, and eloquente. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 256 The opinion of any one true speaking man. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Pendu A smooth, glib, eloquent, or well speaking tongue. 1647 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. Psalms in Tracts (1727) 517 To grapple with our fair~speaking adversaries. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. iii. 350 The public-speaking woman at the Palais Royal. < as lemmas |
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