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单词 soil and glebe
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soil and glebe
a. The soil of the earth, regarded as the source of vegetable products; earth, land. Occasionally soil and glebe. Now only poetic or rhetorical.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [noun] > soil as source of growth
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 397 Þey þat this londe [Wales] Be wel lasse þan Engelonde, As good glebe is oon as other [L. par glebæ gloria].
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xiv. xliv. (Tollem. MS.) The glebe [1535 soile] of þat mounte [Thabor] bereþ vynes, olyues, and oþer tren with frute.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. ii. sig. a.vi The soyle and glebe, is set plentuous and commendable.
1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros iii. xxii. 66 Howses by three, and seauen, and ten he raseth, To make the common gleabe, his priuate land.
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv. 142 in Poems The fertile glebe requires no time to breed; It quickens and receives at once the Seed.
1748 J. Hervey Contempl. Night in Medit. & Contempl. (ed. 4) II. 30 The Frosts mellow the Soil... The rushing Rains impregnate the Glebe, and fit it for a Magazine of Plenty.
1800–24 T. Campbell Power of Russia v The glebe of fifty kingdoms shall be till'd To feed his dazzling, desolating train.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lviii. 224 The great family of North American Indians..are dying at our hands, and rendering their glebe to our possession.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 321 A troop of boys..pile upon the golden glebe the triumphs of the day.
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