stepdamen.

/ˈstɛpdeɪm/

Forms: Also Middle English stedame.

Etymology: < step- comb. form + dame n. (sense 8).

Now archaic.

a. A stepmother.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > stepmother

stepmotherc725

stepdamea1387

mother-in-law1516

motherc1546

noverka1600

step-parent1840

step1939

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 273 Vortymerus deide, þoruȝ venym of his stedame Rowen.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 120 Þai wedd..þaire stepdames efter þe deed of þaire faders.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E5 His cruell stepdame.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 279 Where old Cham..Hid Amalthea and her Florid Son Young Bacchus from his Stepdame Rhea's eye.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 12 A Stepdame too I have, a cursed she, Who rules my Hen-peck'd Sire, and orders me.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 217 Other stepdames have tried less laudable means for clearing the way to the succession of their own children.

1894 Lowell tr. Kalevala in Cent. Mag. May 27/2 Small and weak my mother left me..In the keeping of the stepdame.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 5 Forȝetingnes all wey kypinge þe craft of a stepdamme, he is enmy of mynde.

1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 137 Necligence is stepdame of lernynge.

1447 O. Bokenham Margaret in Lyvys Seyntys 942 To eschewyn prolixyte, Stepdam of fauour.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 364^v/2 The Church of Rome: which of a mother is become a stepdame.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 131 An ouer commaunding mount is a stepdame to a fortresse.

1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. vi. 8 Vertue the mother of courage..when it meets with desperation the step~dame of courage.

a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) xii. 512 The world hath all along been a stepdame to me.

1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 219 What a tragic, treacherous stepdame is vulgar Fortune to her children!

c. attributive.

ΚΠ

1800 T. Campbell Lines Grave Suicide 13 To feel the step~dame buffetings of fate.

1809 R. Heber Europe 6 And dread the stepdame sway of unaccustom'd war.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. v. 328 Did Nature,..fling thee forth, stepdame-like, a Distraction into this distracted Eighteenth Century?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	stepdame
释义	stepdamen. /ˈstɛpdeɪm/ Forms: Also Middle English stedame. Etymology: < step- comb. form + dame n. (sense 8). Now archaic. a. A stepmother. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > stepmother stepmotherc725 stepdamea1387 mother-in-law1516 motherc1546 noverka1600 step-parent1840 step1939 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 273 Vortymerus deide, þoruȝ venym of his stedame Rowen. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 120 Þai wedd..þaire stepdames efter þe deed of þaire faders. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E5 His cruell stepdame. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 279 Where old Cham..Hid Amalthea and her Florid Son Young Bacchus from his Stepdame Rhea's eye. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 12 A Stepdame too I have, a cursed she, Who rules my Hen-peck'd Sire, and orders me. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 217 Other stepdames have tried less laudable means for clearing the way to the succession of their own children. 1894 Lowell tr. Kalevala in Cent. Mag. May 27/2 Small and weak my mother left me..In the keeping of the stepdame. b. figurative. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 5 Forȝetingnes all wey kypinge þe craft of a stepdamme, he is enmy of mynde. 1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 137 Necligence is stepdame of lernynge. 1447 O. Bokenham Margaret in Lyvys Seyntys 942 To eschewyn prolixyte, Stepdam of fauour. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 364^v/2 The Church of Rome: which of a mother is become a stepdame. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 131 An ouer commaunding mount is a stepdame to a fortresse. 1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. vi. 8 Vertue the mother of courage..when it meets with desperation the step~dame of courage. a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) xii. 512 The world hath all along been a stepdame to me. 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 219 What a tragic, treacherous stepdame is vulgar Fortune to her children! c. attributive. ΚΠ 1800 T. Campbell Lines Grave Suicide 13 To feel the step~dame buffetings of fate. 1809 R. Heber Europe 6 And dread the stepdame sway of unaccustom'd war. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. v. 328 Did Nature,..fling thee forth, stepdame-like, a Distraction into this distracted Eighteenth Century? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1387
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