单词 | sistering |
释义 | sisteringn. rare. The action of sister v. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [noun] > addressing as sister sistering1819 1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 97 By..such brothering and sistering he kept up his influence among his people. 1876 M. M. Lee Brown House at Duffield i. 3 ‘But, sister—’ ‘None of your “sistering”. I am fully resolved, and nothing you can say will have the least influence.’ 1914 Quiver Feb. 449/2 It is a League, as one has described it, of fathering, mothering, brothering, and sistering. 2009 M. E. DeMuth Daisy Chain v. 30 The hollering people ceased to holler. The brothering and sistering stopped. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sisteringadj. Now rare (poetic in later use). That has a relationship resembling in some way that of a sister or sisters; (also) that resembles a sister. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [adjective] sisterly?1532 sister-like1567 sistering1609 sororial1836 sororal1838 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. Kv From off a hill whose concaue wombe reworded, A plaintfull story from a sistring vale. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 140 The Roman was almost naked from the Waste upwards, discovering the sistering Apples of her Breast. 1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 856 Fancies came wooing me, and gently rose To the soft sistering music of a stream That pilgrimed by. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Stud. in Song 13 At his birth the sistering stars were one. 1916 F. F. Shannon Enchanted Universe viii. 131 Seek out that girl who wets her pillow with tears... Give her the kindly feel of a sistering soul. a1992 F. T. Prince Coll. Poems (1993) 13 Firm sets of pure bare members which will rise, hanging together Like an argument, with beams, ties and sistering pilasters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1819adj.1609 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。