| 释义 |
durance|ˈdjʊərəns|
[a. OF. durance duration, f. durer to last, dure: see -ance.]
†1. Continuance, duration; lastingness. Obs.
1494Fabyan Chron. I. cv,. Some wryters accompt the terme of the duraunce of this kyngdome from Cerdicus to Egbert, and some to the last yere of Aluredus. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 29/2 Let it soe rest in a sellar the durance of 14 dayes. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 271 Had not that Instigator of Ills..forbid its Durance by maliciously sowing Tares.
†2. Lasting quality, durability. Obs.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 69 That compar'd with this is nought so fine..Nor of like durance. 1663Gerbier Counsel 108 Precious Wood..both for Colour, Aromatick smell and Durance. 1703Art Vintners 23 It acquires a better durance and taste. 1847Emerson Poems, Astræa Wks. (Bohn) I. 444 The durance of a granite ledge.
†3. A stout durable cloth. (Cf. durant n.) Obs.
1583in North. N. & Q. I. 77 A payr of blew paynd hosse, drawin furthe wt Dewrance. 1588Acc.-bk. of W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) Feb. 54 Ii pece cremosynge Duraunce..and one pece blacke duraunce. 1601Cornwallyes Ess. (1632) xiii, I refuse to weare buffe for the lasting, and shall I be content to apparrell my braine in durance? 1709Mrs. Crackenthorpe Female Tatler in Malcolm Anecd. 18th C. (1808) 133 Shallons, durances, and right Scotch plaids.
4. Endurance (of toil or fatigue). arch.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Epil. 2 That..time in durance shall outweare. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. vii. §5. 38 Their hardinesse..partly naturall, and partly acquired by practise of their bodies to durance. 1881R. Buchanan God & Man III. 31 Many a man..had saved himself from..madness by the hard durance of toil.
5. Forced confinement, imprisonment; constraint. Now esp. in phr. in durance vile. Cf. duress 3.
1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 773 Those that have not letted to put them in duraunce without colour, will let as little to procure their destruction without cause. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 82 His mother, which as yet was in durance in Englande. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. v. 36 Thy Dol..is in base Durance, and contagious prison. 1637Sanderson Serm. II. 62 St. Paul being at durance in Rome. 1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 995 Him they release from durance base. 1770Burke Pres. Discont. Wks. 1842 I. 130 This royal servitude and vile durance. 1791Mackintosh Vind. Gallicæ Wks. 1846 III. 9 To deliver the peerless and immaculate Antoinetta..from the durance vile in which she has so long been immured in the Tuilleries. 1794Burns Esopus to Maria 57 A workhouse!..In durance vile here must I wake and weep. 1841Borrow Zincali I. 246 The writer, who..was in durance for stealing a pair of mules. |