单词 | adolescence |
释义 | adolescencen. The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult; the condition or state of being adolescent. Also: an analogous stage of an animal's life. Also figurative. Cf. adolescency n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > becoming adolescence?a1425 adolescency?a1475 maturation1616 emancipation1651 maturing1885 the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > adolescent > adolescence or puberty pubertyc1384 adolescence?a1425 adolescency?a1475 in one's teens1596 pubes1637 pubescency1658 pubescence1822 teenhood1845 hog age1848 the awkward age1895 prepubescence1908 prepuberty1922 teenagery1950 teenagedness1952 jean-age1959 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 138 In childre, when þai come to adolescence i. wexing age [?c1425 Paris ȝong manis age]. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. l. 1765 (MED) Afftirward in ther adolescence, Vertuousli to teche hem. c1450 ( Nightingale (Calig.) l. 267 in O. Glauning Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1900) 10 (MED) O lusty gaylauntes in youre adolescens. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 140 Þat nature mowe be ouercome, þat is euere redy to euel, of yonge age & adolescence [L. ab adolescentia sua]. a1538 W. Holme Fall & Euill Successe Rebellion (1572) sig. E.ijv We thinke in those things our wit should more excell, Than in our adolescence, or yet our beginning. 1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. ix. 18 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) Those times which we term vulgarly the old world, was indeed the youth or Adolescence of it. 1692 R. Bentley Confut. Atheism from Struct. & Origin Humane Bodies: 3rd Pt. 36 The Sons of the First Men must have a tedious time of Childhood and Adolescence. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xvi. 70 System of education..for the government of my childhood and adolescence. 1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 214 We see the first rudiments of society, and behold nations in every stage of their progress, from infancy to adolescence. 1820 C. R. Maturin Melmoth II. vi. 60 I had no food for many days requisite for the claims of adolescence, which were then rapidly manifesting themselves in my tall, but attenuated frame. 1876 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 3) vii. 2 An infant had its price which rose as the child reached adolescence. 1908 W. Carleton Drifted In 34 Bring back the dear adolescence, with all of its plagues and its pleasures! 1942 Jrnl. Compar. Psychol. 33 160 Homosexual mountings are characteristic of the male Rhesus monkey, particularly during adolescence. 1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power i. 19 The automobile industry was in its heady adolescence and Detroit was America's newest boom town. 2000 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 18 June (Timeout section) 13/1 Tom..is suffering from all the usual trials of adolescence—unruly skin, a brain-lock whenever he sees a girl. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?a1425 |
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