| 单词 | stock-father |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstock-father stock-father n. the progenitor of a stock or race. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > first ancestor or patriarch chief fatherc1400 father?a1425 primitive1486 stock-father1600 stem1604 primogenitor1643 patriarch1758 stem-father1879 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. xxiv. 196 Romulus..the first Stockefather and beginner of the cittie of Rome. a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 207 Hee is the stock-father of that honored family of the Berkeleys of Wymondham. 1895 W. P. W. Phillimore in New Eng. Gen. Hist Register Oct. 450 Edward Garfield, of Watertown, Mass., the stock~father of the American family. < as lemmas |
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