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leonine

C2 adj

leonine /ˈliəˌnaɪn/ nghĩa là thuộc về các giáo hoàng tên Lêô

Các nghĩa

  1. thuộc về các giáo hoàng tên Lêô

    Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion; lionlike.

    He was of a leonine-coloured haire, sanguinocholerique, middle sized, strong.

    Ti′ger. […] A fierce beaſt of the leonine kind.

    Redoubted King, of courage leonine, / I mark thee, Richard!

  2. thuộc thể thơ Lêô (có vần giữa và cuối câu)

    Of a facies (“a person's facial features”): resembling those of a lion as a result of some disease, especially a form of leprosy which causes leontiasis (“a medical condition characterized by an overgrowth of the cranial and facial bones”); also, of leprosy: causing a lionlike facies.

    leonine facies

    The most terrible variety of this hideous evil is the leonine leprosy, so called because the head of the sufferer resembles that of a lion.

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