vulpinary

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Crafty, sly, shrewd. rare
    — Vulpinary, [Vulpinaris,L.] crafty, subtile, wily.
  2. Relating to a fox. rare
    — Trust the native vine;— The Fox, the Bland, Schuylkill, and Catawba. These have withstood the chill northwestern blast, The burning sun-beams, and the summer's drought, The shade of trees, and most untimely rains. While naught of tillage at the root appears, No pruning knife has lopped the useless growth Of vagrant tendrils, yielding only leaves. What from the matted canopy that spreads, Untutored and at will, its tender shoots Oe'r tall tap-rooted trees, can you expect But grapes, (if grapes at all,) diminutive, And branded with a vulpinary name. Yet take the fox or racoon and their kinds, Into thy fertile soil and tend them well, And but a year or two shall pass away, Till a fair promise shall inspire thy hope.
  3. Not spiritual or religious; common. rare
    — Spiritive as Scriptural mana is a fruit, under which excellent and concentrative typive man hath freely given to him to name or choose for himself the due ratify, this beautiful or bountiful gateway to the high lens in the ùòmanative heavens, renders all vulpinary sorrel a garnishment suitable to itself. […] When Christ took the conjunct humanlys, it was to tread or stamp upon them in the educative spirit of his presumptuory life; for in a distinct and atomised humiliation it was highly characteristic to make sovereign use of the vulgar or vulpinary title, as best becoming dececration in the conductuory; and it behoved to be put on in contrast this his lowest height, as the phaseos or Saviour in the redeemable humanly. […] True sorrow wraps itself close from unaniciated and untempered eyes, and great is the mastery of godliness in making no profession; always the seat of truth’s confessional, is secret and sacred; as God in subjecting evil agency works by vulpinary cause. […] If we weep by Babel’s streams, the sparkle of our chrystal tears, touch the beam which kindles from above; and the “curled darlings of the nations” may sigh in vain so to prefigure their vulpinary Shad-wrack; alas our shultifying times, do give place in a vague for ever.

词形变化

more vulpinary comparative most vulpinary superlative

词源

From vulpine + -ary.
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