单词 | unlatined |
释义 | unlatinedn.adj. A. n. With the and plural agreement. People who are unable to read or understand Latin, considered as a class; the unlearned. Cf. unlatined adj. ΚΠ 1550 J. Harington in tr. Cicero Bk. Freendeship Pref. sig. Aiijv How so euer it [sc. this translation] shalbe liked of the learned, I hope it shalbe allowed of the vnlatined. 1561 T. Hoby in tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer Ep. Translatour sig. B.i A vertuous exercise for the vnlatined to come by learning. 1886 Temple Bar July 371 ‘Quicquid agunt homines: votum, timor, ira, voluptas’;—to be mistranslated for the benefit of the un-Latined as: ‘All that men are, Desire, Fear, Anger, Sense’. 1953 R. F. Jones Triumph of Eng. Lang. ii. 36 The cleavage between the learned and unlearned, in the minds of those employing the vernacular, was pronounced, and the latter make it plain that their efforts were directed to the unlatined. 2000 S. Adamson in R. Lass Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lang. III. 574 In drama and sermon, whose audiences might include both the educated and the unlatined, this kind of register-switching and self-paraphrase is particularly common. B. adj. Unable to read or understand the Latin language; not familiar with or learned in Latin; not highly educated, unlearned. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > ignorant of something > of Latin unlatined1570 Latinless1599 lack-latin1608 un-Latin1675 illatinate1922 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. Aiij v Being vnlatined people, and not Vniuersitie Scholers. 1630 A. Cade Iustification Church of Eng. i. vi. 101 Hiding the light of Gods Word vnder their Latin bushels, from the vnlatined people in Gods house. 1658 tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. iii. iv. 220 Because they may seeme somewhat harsh and strange..and appearing in French cast a generall fright on all unlatin'd people, I could wish you had taken the paines to transfuse them out of the vulgar tongue into the learned. 1785 Monthly Rev. July 8 In behalf of the many unlatined Botanists..we must say that their instruction might have been more particularly considered. 1818 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 224/2 An odious Shibboleth, furnishing a too ready criterion, to distinguish the real Latinist from the un-latined pretender. 1878 Catholic World Mar. 740/1 If any translation of Virgil can hope to be popular it is his; and we hold to the belief that it will share with Dryden's..the affections of the unlatined English reader for long to come. 1944 Times 22 Dec. 6/5 Gloria in excelsis needs no translation, and no great scholarship is required to enable the unlatined man to sing with full heart and understanding. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Mar. 50/1 Some Anglicans wished they could take a leaf out of the Roman Catholic book..and keep the Bible out of the hands of the un-Latined laity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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