单词 | precelling |
释义 | † preˈcelling, ppl. a. Obs. Also 6 Sc. -and, -end. [f. precel + -ing2.] That ‘precels’ or excels; excelling, excellent; surpassing, pre-eminent.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 12 Ther satt a child off beauté precellyng, Middes of the trone, rayed lyke a kyng. Ibid. 21 Be glad, O Londone,..Citee of citees, of noblesse precellyng. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 5980 Than sall that most precelland Kyng Tyll those wrachis mak answeryng. a1568W. Stewart in Bannatyne Poems (Hunter. Cl.) 250 Precellend prince! havand prerogatyue As rowy royall in this regioun to ring. 1676Shadwell Virtuoso ii. Wks. 1720 I. 342 Were I as precelling in physico⁓mechanical investigations, as you in tropical rhetorical flourishes. 1756Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 308 The sacred confidence reposed in our representatives confers precelling dignity. |

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