“gracile”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

gracile

释义

gracile, a.|ˈgræsɪl|
Also 7 gracill.
[ad. L. gracil-is slender.]
Slender, thin, lean.
1623Cockeram ii, Leane, gracill.1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 465 It's tail like that of other Serpents, grows more gracile by degrees.1721–92in Bailey.1818J. Brown Psyche 30 Words daily grow more short and gracile.1824Landor Wks. (1846) I. 246/1 Unswathe his Egyptian mummy; and..you disclose the grave features and gracile bones of a..cat.1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1862 IX. 47 In person he was tall, fair, gracile.
¶ By some recent writers misused (through association with grace) for: Gracefully slender.
1871Rossetti Poems, Love's Nocturn xi, Where in groves the gracile Spring Trembles.1888Harper's Mag. Apr. 733/2 Girls..beautiful with the beauty of ruddy bronze,—gracile as the palmettoes that sway above them.
Hence ˈgracileness.
1727in Bailey vol. II.

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