单词 | the aged poor |
释义 | > as lemmasthe aged (also good, respectable, urban, etc.) poor 1. With plural agreement. Chiefly with the. Poor people (literal and figurative) as a class; esp. needy or destitute people. Frequently with distinguishing word, as the aged (also good, respectable, urban, etc.) poor. Cf. overseer of (also †for) the poor at overseer n. 1c.the deserving poor: see deserving adj. a. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor people or the poor waedlec888 needfula1200 needya1225 poorc1225 God's poorc1230 porailc1325 porailsa1425 povertya1450 poorality1536 God's poverty1563 miserable1582 necessitous1622 necessitated1638 ptochocracy1831 fallen1878 worse off1890 po'1945 c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 99 (MED) Hwen þus is of riche, hwet wenest tu of þe poure? c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 482 (MED) Þane riche & poure, more & lasse, Singeþ cundut niȝt & dai. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 101 (MED) Ne on his bord non so god shrede Þat he ne wolde þorwit fede Poure þat on fote yede. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) 185 (MED) Her ioie is as of hym þat deuoreþ þe pouer in hidels. c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale I. 373 He herkneth nat benygnly the compleynte of the pouere. a1450 Pater Noster Richard Ermyte (Westm. Sch.) 17 Zachee..of al þat he hadde half ȝaue to pore. c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 62 (MED) The riche ought to supporte the pour. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark xiv. f. lxvj It myght have bene soolde for more then two houndred pens, and bene geven vnto the povre. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xlvijv Colledges and such other places were fyrst founded for the pore. a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Fffff4v/1 What Poor attend my charity to day, wench? c1658 in F. J. Furnivall Harrison's Descr. Eng. (1908) iv. 207 Cures Colledge..with maintenance for 16..aged poore of the parish. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) 80 The poor of France have generally less Wages than in England. 1702 (title) The necessity and usefulness of the Dispensaries lately set up by the College of Physicians in London, for the use of the sick poor. 1750 Aberdeen Jrnl. 22 May 4/3 The Revd...sells..those [found and unearthed old coins] struck at Aberdeen for 10 Shillings, for the Benefit of the Poor, whatever is found within the Church-yard being their Property. 1769 G. G. Beekman Let. 20 Jan. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 520 The plaid Hose and Galloway Pladen are not used here by Our Poor Nor Negroes. a1797 E. Burke Thoughts on Scarcity (1800) 3 Nothing can be so base and so wicked as the political canting language, ‘The Labouring Poor’. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House vi. 48 It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up. 1891 E. Kinglake Austral. at Home 107 The ranks of larrikins do not go unrecruited from among the sons of the more respectable poor. 1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara Pref. in John Bull's Other Island 154 ‘The respectable poor’, and such phrases are as intolerable and as immoral as ‘drunken but amiable’ [etc.]. 1957 J. Osborne Look Back in Anger i. i. 13 He's upset because someone has suggested that he supports the rich against the poor. 1966 B. Brophy Don't never Forget 17 Do you remember..how the poor didn't mind their slums because they had never known anything else? 1988 Herald (Austral.) (Nexis) 21 June You have to take care of the emotionally poor before you can protect the blessed rich. 2003 New Internationalist Jan.–Feb. 30/1 The urban poor in Rosario, Argentina's third-largest city, are employing the Californian red worm to munch the city's organic waste. < as lemmas |
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