单词 | son and heir |
释义 | > as lemmasson and heir d. son and heir: the eldest son and therefore the person who is entitled to inherit the property, title, etc., of his parents according to the rules of primogeniture (primogeniture n. 2). [Compare Middle Low German sȫnerve, sȫneerve the son as heir, lit. ‘son-heir’.] In quot. ?a1439 in extended use; cf. sense 5c. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > son > [noun] sonOE son and heir?a1400 sonkin1542 little boy1553 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > male child who is heir of parents son and heir?a1400 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9607 In is warde he let do Henri is eldoste sone & is eir al so.] ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. 70 Sorow & site he made..for his sonne & heyre. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 2186 Off Phebus..Poetis write that he was sone and heir. a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 475 The son & heir of hym that nowe pretendeth to be kyng. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 33 Quhome God ressaifis to his sone and air, Him will he scurge. 1576 in G. P. McNeill Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1899) XX. 372 Jhone Dromond,..quhe is schon and air to his fader Jhone Dromond. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore i. v. 26 As cleane as your sonnes and heires when they ha spent all. 1650 Briefe Descr. Two Revolted Nations 4 Wee have most barbarously Butchered our King at his owne Gate; and banisht his Son and Heire, our King that ought to be, out of all his Dominions. 1720 C. Nary New Hist. World i. v. 43 Faithful Abraham having thus happily settled his Son and Heir, and finding that he had as yet some Years to Live, he took another Wife. 1752 T. Birch Life John Tillotson sig. B2 His son and heir Thomas Tilston married Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Hugh Heath of Huxley. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Death of Old Year in Poems (new ed.) 156 To see him die..His son and heir doth ride posthaste. 1889 Daily Independent (Monroe, Wisconsin) 31 July Not a syllable about being received once more as my son and heir. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 9/3 The only son and heir of the great stock operator, whose home was a hotel and whose life was in Wall Street! 1954 R. Coupland Welsh & Sc. Nationalism iii. 78 Mary, now five years old, was promised..to the son and heir of Henry II of France. 2004 Times (Nexis) 26 Aug. (Home section) 5 Her unwillingness to concede that her devoted son and heir can be trouble. < as lemmas |
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