单词 | swine-driving |
释义 | > as lemmasswine-driving b. With verbal nouns and present participles, as swine breeding, swine keeping, etc., nouns; swine-driving, swine-eating, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1547 J. Bale Lattre Examinacyon A. Askewe f. 46v More fytt are ye for swyne kepynge, than to be of a prynces counsel. a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) ii. sig. D3v These swine-eating Christians. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. ii. 35 A hundred and fiftie tottered prodigals, latelie come from swine keeping . View more context for this quotation 1832 Loyal Reformer's Gaz. 18 Feb. 191 The ‘Swinish multitude’ cannot deserve more of their own husks, which these swine-driving Tories are so fond to devour. 1879 A. Ransom tr. T. Keim Hist. Jesus of Nazara IV. 156 They choose the swine because these unclean animals are the abhorrence of the Jews, and the most distinctive mark of the swinish and swine-keeping heathenism of the district. 1918 Ann. Rep. Dept. Agric. Ont. 1916 I. 70 One of the first questions which the farmer will be inclined to ask is ‘Does swine breeding pay?’ 2013 Southeast Farm Press (Nexis) 8 Oct. Cattle and swine feeding operations and dairies might be forced to close. < as lemmas |
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