单词 | well-landed |
释义 | well-landedadj. Somewhat rare after 17th cent. Owning a large amount of land. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > [adjective] > owning property or interests > owning land landedc1000 well-landed1557 estated1608 territorieda1654 acred1673 territorial?1799 landowning1845 1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull f. cclxxxviiiv A Knyght, a squyre, or a well landed manne. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxxv. 830/1 As these monkes doe, who are wel landed and rented, and..yet for all that they vowe pouertie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. iv. 84 Slender (though well landed) is an Ideot. View more context for this quotation 1637 W. Camden Remaines (new ed.) 212 Ralph de Curva Spina, or Creythorne descended from an Ancestor well landed in Kent. 1697 P. A. Motteux et al. Novelty v. 52 Lending a well-landed Heir a Sum of Mony. c1829 in J. W. Clark & T. M. Hughes Life & Lett. A. Sedgwick (1890) I. viii. 336 Come web-footed parson, come well-landed master. 1893 Scribner's Mag. Nov. 641/1 Well-landed he was, but with next to no money. 1942 W. T. Palmer Verge of Wales v. 96 Arriving at years of discretion, he pursued a widow, young and well-landed. 1996 L. Kleypas Somewhere I'll find You 173 The Wyvills, a well-landed and titled family of Warwickshire, were notorious for their bad dispositions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1557 |
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