单词 | to eat maigre |
释义 | > as lemmasto eat (also keep, live, observe) maigre ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > following specific diet > follow specific diet [verb (intransitive)] > observe maigre diet to eat (also keep, live, observe) maigre1739 to make meagre1852 1739 H. Walpole Corr. (1820) I. 18 A greater penance than eating maigre. 1764 J. Boswell Jrnl. 7 Feb. in F. A. Pottle Boswell in Holland (1952) 152 Fast today, or be only maigre..by having two rolls at breakfast. 1764 H. Walpole Let. 18 June in Corr. (1941) X. 127 I must keep maigre. 1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy I. 340 A good catholic, who lives maigre one half of the year. 1778 H. More Let. in W. Roberts Mem. (1834) I. 136 At last he [sc. the doctor] consented on condition that I should..live maigre and drink no wine. 1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. vii. 193 It being the season of Lent, without any respect for God or for the Church, none of the court observed maigre. 1860 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 88 654/2 My poor mother!..and thou art too old to eat maigre. < as lemmas |
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