单词 | skill-contending |
释义 | > as lemmasskill-contending C1. attributive and in other combinations (in sense 6), as skill-pride, skill-thirst; skill-contending, skill-wrought adjs. ΚΠ 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H1 Busie your selues in skill contending schooles. View more context for this quotation 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 23 With curious Skill-pride, & vaine dreames. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 319 Too-curious skill-thirst, enuie, felonie. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 197 To reueyle the veyle of Nature, to prophane her mysteries for a little curious skil-pride. 1887 R. Brown Trilogy 72 For ever dart-struck was his casque Skill-wrought. < as lemmas |
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