Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A youth of noble birth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
child , 8.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A child of
noble birth. - noun The
cognomen given to the oldest son prior to his taking his father's title.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What Clinton phrases as a commonplace has not been located in midwifery treatises; Gouge, however, does employ the phrase "The drawing forth of a womans milke by her childe is a means to get and preserve a good stomach, which is a great preservative of good health" (Of Domesticall Duties, L12r).
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Even words that to me feel neutral in English are feminine, if they describe a person or an animal, like the use of "childe" instead of "child", "catte" instead of "cat".
Elisabeth Vonarburg: In the Mother's Land x00c5;ka 2009
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Even words that to me feel neutral in English are feminine, if they describe a person or an animal, like the use of "childe" instead of "child", "catte" instead of "cat".
Archive 2009-02-01 x00c5;ka 2009
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The "childe" is, in fact, lord Byron himself, who was only twenty-two when he began the poem, which was completed in seven years.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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I have said before), and that at a time most fortunate for his purpose; for when he was coming home from Ireland, with intent to revenge himselfe upon my Lord of Leicester for begetting his wife with childe in his absence (the childe was a daughter, and brought up by the Lady Shandoes,
Kenilworth 2004
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"The like good chance had he in the death of my Lord of Essex (as I have said before), and that at a time most fortunate for his purpose; for when he was coming home from Ireland, with intent to revenge himselfe upon my Lord of Leicester for begetting his wife with childe in his absence (the childe was a daughter, and brought up by the Lady Shandoes,
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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The website has also been an immediate hit among the Twitterati, who are beginning to childe one another if they link to the actual Daily Mail website.
Patrick Hayes: IstyOsty: The Website That Allows the Twitterati to Have a Guilt-Free Two Minute Hate Patrick Hayes 2011
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If he was so sure that a “vemen childe”—a woman child—was so useless that he “might as well shoot himself now” then he could “bludy” well find the horse by himself.
Judge deveraux The Scent of Jasmine 2011
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The website has also been an immediate hit among the Twitterati, who are beginning to childe one another if they link to the actual Daily Mail website.
Patrick Hayes: IstyOsty: The Website That Allows the Twitterati to Have a Guilt-Free Two Minute Hate Patrick Hayes 2011
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In the midst of a discussion about a Jewish tradition mandating that each couple has at least one male and one female childe, Bryan Cap Tracked on July 31, 2005 9:10 PM
Be Fruitful and Multiply by 1.5, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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