单词 | the lower row |
释义 | > as lemmasthe lower row a. A (notional) array of persons (or occasionally things) of a certain kind; a set, class, category. Usually with modifying word or phrase specifying the kind. the lower row: ordinary people, the general populace. Obsolete.With quot. c1500 cf. quot. 1667 at sense 4e; recent examples are usually understood as that sense. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class kinc950 kindOE distinction?c1225 rowc1300 spece1303 spice1303 fashionc1325 espicec1386 differencea1398 statec1450 sort?1523 notion1531 species1561 vein1568 brood1581 rank1585 order1588 race1590 breed1598 strain1612 batch1616 tap1623 siege1630 subdivision1646 notionality1651 category1660 denomination1664 footmark1666 genus1666 world1685 sortment1718 tribe1731 assortment1767 description1776 style1794 grouping1799 classification1803 subcategory1842 type1854 basket1916 c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 1080 Horn..sette him wel loȝe In beggeres rowe. c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 13 If he will be on the good mennes rowe, he most haue the vertu of iustice. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxiiii. 152 To putte her self in the Rowe or companye of them that were renommed. c1500 Sir Corneus in M. M. Furrow Ten 15th-cent. Comic Poems (1985) 288 Lordynges all, now may ȝe know That I may dance in þe cokwold row. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. f. 24v The error of the world, which estemeth them in the row of the tollerable. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 128 To allow the use of lawful pastimes in the lower row upon that day. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 13 Democritus..was of the Italick Row, or Pythagorick Succession. 1738 tr. S. Guazzo Art of Conversat. 71 Those whom you have now described, I think should stand in the Row of the Desirable and Commendable. 1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 5 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 225 She has an only daughter,..who is, at least, approaching the old-maid's row. 1821 W. Liddle Poems 31 If ye'd been o' the batch'lor row, It ne'er wad bred up sic a strow. < as lemmas |
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