| 单词 | saxon angles |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSaxon Angles a. Of or belonging to the Saxons (see A. 1). Formerly often used (like Anglo-Saxon) as the distinctive epithet of the Old English language, and of books written in it, and of the period of English history between the conquest of Britain by the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes, and the Norman Conquest. †Saxon Angles = Anglo-Saxons. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ancient Germanic peoples > [adjective] > Saxons SaxishOE West Saxona1387 Saxonish1549 Saxon1568 Saxonical1577 East Saxon1606 Anglo-Saxon1652 Saxonic1678 1568 J. Jewel Let. 18 Jan. in Wks. (1850) IV. 1273 I..have found..one book written in the Saxon tongue... It may be Alfricus for all my cunning. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. v. 63 Ryme is a borrowed word from the Greeks by the Latines and French, from them by vs Saxon angles. 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 24 The Saxon letter Thorne. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xxv. 523 The Saxon pirates. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxviii. 610 The obscure hints of the Saxon laws and chronicles. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. i. 22 That last scion of Saxon royalty. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 581 Greek, Hebrew, Saxon, &c., or any of the dead characters. 1840 J. Stevenson Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis Pref. p. x An interlinear version into the Saxon language. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 130 In Ireland Scot and Southron were strongly bound together by their common Saxon origin. 1862 W. H. Jervis Hist. France (1872) v. §6. 65 Witikind became the hero of the Saxon resistance. < as lemmas |
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