| 单词 | racy of the soil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasracy of the soil 2. Strongly characteristic of a particular country or people; distinctive. Esp. (now only) in racy of the soil.The expression 'racy of the soil' was used in a Parliamentary speech by Stephen Woulfe (see quot. 1837); his words were subsequently used in adapted form as the masthead of the Irish nationalist journal 'The Nation' (first published 1842). ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > [adjective] > characteristic of nation national1625 racy of the soil1656 1656 A. Cowley Poems i. 25 Brisk racy Verses, in which we The Soil from whence they came, taste, smel, and see. 1805 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 99 To surround the vine-planter of Ararat with a more racy and autochthonous machinery than his Miltonic angelry. 1837 Times 11 Apr. 3/5 They [sc. municipal institutions] conferred power and influence on the people in the most beneficial way, by quickening popular opinion, by making it self-derived, and, as it were, racy of the soil. a1849 H. Coleridge Poems (1851) II. 331 Scots were they both by temper as by birth, And both were racy of their native earth. 1874 M. Creighton Hist. Ess. (1902) viii. 236 All live amid definite surroundings, and..are racy of the soil which bore them. 1889 Spectator 26 Oct. This popular [Irish] superstition..is so racy of the soil, that it is really deserving of a much wider publicity. 1903 Jewish Q. Rev. 15 589 We might have to exclude from Hebrew literature compositions in Hebrew which were not racy of the soil of Palestine. 1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 527/2 His book..is racy of the soil of Wiltshire, its character, history, and farm life. 1956 A. Henderson G. B. Shaw: Man of Cent. vi. xxxvii. 488 He portrayed the Swiss captain with unexceptionable naturalness and a humor racy of the soil. 1993 D. Lloyd Anomalous States 26 Culture repeats primary cultivation, its savour is oral, racy of the soil. < as lemmas |
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