单词 | yeared |
释义 | yearedadj. 1. As the second element in compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] oldeOE old-yeared?c1425 of age1526 aged1543 aetat?1616 aet1654 the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > lasting for several years old-yeared?c1425 years-long1887 multi-year1935 ?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 67 Thou of þe pryvé seel art olde yyerede. b. That is the specified number of years old; of the specified age. See also many-yeared adj. at many adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1a(a). †twice yeared: two years old (obsolete). ΘΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age seven?1440 yearing1451 year-old1556 yeared1583 seventy1590 two-year1596 quinquagenarian1603 septuagenary1605 twelvea1616 thirty1618 three-yearling1621 one-eared1645 quadragenarious1656 trimenstruous1656 septennian1662 sexagenarian1663 sexagenary1663 octogenarya1696 seven-year-old1713 quinquagenary1715 yearling1729 septuagesimal1781 septuagenarian1793 octogenarian1818 fortyish1821 seventeen-year-old1821 three-year-old1825 week-old1826 centenarian1828 day-old1831 70-year-old1832 quadragenarian1834 century-old1836 nonagenarian1877 teenaged1913 thirtyish1925 1583 Ld. Burghley Let. 12 Mar. in N. H. Nicolas Mem. Sir C. Hatton (1847) 323 His [sc. Lord Oxford's] fall in her Court, which is now twice yeared. 1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. Fv This young-year'd Hermit. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxiv. 375 Two onely more, which were his aged Sire, And like-year'd Dolius. 1754 Hist. & Adventures Lady's Slippers & Shoes 46 Miss's mamma was dead, and..her fifty-yeared eldest daughter took care to lament her in a manner as must be known to the world. 1837 Knickerbocker Sept. 236 Fancy Madame Earth flirting with the long-yeared Herschel. 1910 H. L. Kiner Hist. Henry County, Illinois I. 286 Thus did ten-yeared cousin cozen At her ten-yeared beau. 1995 Yale Rev. Jan. 19 Indus, Sutlej, rivers even from before sat their seats as mountains rose around them million-yeared. 2. attributive. Acquired over the course of many years; that has existed or lasted for many years. rare (poetic in later use). ΚΠ 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man Proeme sig. Bv But why stand I so long vpon the obseruations of Columbus, an Anathomist of such yeared experience? 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 204 White with all yearéd snows and radiant rime. 1942 W. Everson Masculine Dead 6 The tides of all being—Betelgeuse his bulk, and the yeared light, and the high silence. Π 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. i. 141 Year'd but to thirty. View more context for this quotation 1656 in R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 241 New life didst give. As if those caracters year'd to dust and death Hadst re-instated with new soul and breath. 1728 T. Cooke tr. Hesiod Wks. & Days ii, in tr. Hesiod Wks. I. 176 Let a good Plowman, year'd to forty, drive. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.?c1425 |
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