outbrotherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

outbrother (複数形 outbrothers)

1. An outpensioner.
   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: Printed [by Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], OCLC 228714942; reprinted Menston, West Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1971, →ISBN, page 3:

     That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well, came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece, & promiſed them vaſt corpulent volumes of immortallity, if they would beſtowe vpon him but a ſlender outbrothers annuity of muttõ & broth, and a pallet to ſleep on; and with deriſion they reiected him, [...]