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单词 better-regulated
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better-regulated
a. Combining with participles with the sense ‘in a better way or manner’, (also) ‘more fully, more’ to form adjectives, as better-behaved, better-balanced, better-born, better-considered, better-dressed, better-educated, better-equipped, better-informed, better-knowing, better-known, better-loved, better-organized, better-regulated, etc. Cf. best adj., n.1, and adv. Compounds 1a(a), Compounds 1a(b).Frequently forming comparatives of corresponding compounds with well.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1491 (MED) A beter bi-loued barn was neuer born.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 344 A bettre envyned man was neuere noon.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 193 With lasse labour and cost mai be had the perfiter and fuller and better representing ymage of the same thing.
1595 tr. ‘J. Borget’ Divels Legend sig. A3v That great, faire, well cut, and better combed beard.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. xvii. 549 To resort to the better-knowing husbands.
1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. lxxi. 177 No Law bindes vs to read all; but the more we can take in, and digest, the better-liking must the minds needs be.
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness i. v. 11 In what fitter, more significant or better-becoming way could it be expressed then already it is in the Beginning of that Gospel?
1677 tr. A.-N. Amelot de La Houssaie Hist. Govt. Venice 23 Such Gentlemen..as thereby become better-affected to the Venetian Nobility.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 126 For Empire he design'd, Is better born. View more context for this quotation
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 80 An honest Heart is only a more cunning one: and Honesty and good Nature, a more deliberate, or better regulated Self-Love.
1756 M. Calderwood Jrnl. (1884) 9 June i. 8 I am Scots, and the Scots and Welch are near relations, and much better born than the English.
1760 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XVII. vii. 59 A race of mulattoes soon sprung up, more healthy than the European women, better-liked, and more congenial to the blacks.
1784 Polit Mag. Apr. 253/2 Asking them to trace back the building of Gour..or of the better known Palibothra of the ancients.
1791 J. Bentham Let. c30 Apr. in Corr. (1981) IV. 270 There was not a better behaved young woman in the whole parish.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. x. 250 Neglecting the minor and better-balanced chances of the game.
1820 W. Scott Abbot II. viii. 268 To cumber our better-advised devotions.
1826 S. Smith in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 85 His awe of better dressed men and better taught men.
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. v. 64 To learn his change of opinion..from her better-informed child.
1856 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 431 A more matured and better-considered measure.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 24/2 They have become better armed and more exasperated by the whites.
1910 B. E. Stevenson Amer. Men of Mind (1913) ix. 312 It is doubtful if there is a better-loved woman in America today than Helen Gould.
1956 Life 2 Apr. 30/2 Is this news helpful to men on earth; does it make them better-behaved?
1975 L. Perl Slumps, Grunts, & Snickerdoodles xii. 97 The traditional way to do this was to toss the biscuit dough onto a smooth-topped tree stump or, in better-equipped kitchens, onto a heavy wooden ‘biscuit block’.
1988 P. Cloud Oasis in Space xvi. 438/2 This led to ever-fleeter grazers..and ever-swifter, stealthier, or better-organized predators.
2006 Attitude Nov. 104/2 The display at the National features some of his better-known paintings.
2007 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Mar. 20/2 Singapore introduced a series of measures to encourage its better-educated citizens to start families.
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