| 释义 |
empt, v. Obs. exc. dial.|ɛmpt|
Forms: 1 ǽmetᵹian, ǽmtiᵹan, ǽmtian, 2 æmtien, 4 emte(n, empte, 9 dial. emp, ent, 6– empt.
[OE. ǽmtian (ᵹe-ǽmtian), f. ǽmt-a, ǽmetta leisure; cf. empty a. and v.]
†1. intr. and refl. To be at leisure. Only in OE.
c825Vesp. Psalter xlv[i]. 10 æmetᵹiað ant ᵹesiað forðon ic eam dryhten. c1000ælfric Gram. xxxiii. 206 (Z.) æmtiᵹað eow to rædinge.
†2. intr. To become empty. Obs.
c1205Lay. 30408 Feollen ærm kempes; æmteden sadeles.
3. trans. To make empty; to drain, exhaust. lit. and fig. Const. of. Also refl. = empty v. 2, 3.
1340Ayenb. 58 Ase þo þet emteþ þe herte of hire guode. c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 188 Ther-by shal he nat wynne But empte his purs. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xx. (1495) 450 Abyssus..maye neuer be stoppyd..ne emptyd. 1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 92 There I empt my laden hart. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. 27/1 Though a man in study take great paines, And empt his veines. 1640Brome Antipodes iii. vii, Unlesse I empt My brest of mercy to appease her for you. 1678Hobbes Nat. Philos. iii. 27 That the Cylinder may empt itself. 1825Britton Beauties Wilts. Gloss., Empt, to pour out, to empty. 1881I. of Wight Gloss. (E.D.S.), Empt, to make empty.
4. To pour forth, discharge, clear out (the contents of a vessel, etc.).
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. To Rdr., Muse, that..Emptedst poore wit poore winde to win. 1623Cockeram, Extercorate, to empt, or carry out dung. |