| 释义 |
▪ I. enow, a. and adv.1 Now only arch. and dial.|ɪˈnaʊ|
Forms: α. (with apparent traces of pl. inflexion) 1 ᵹenóᵹe, 2 inóᵹe, 3–5 in-, ynoghe, -oghȝe, -oȝe, -oȝhe, -ohe, -ouȝe, in-, ynowe, -owȝe, 4–5 anowe, (5 enoghe, enughe, inowhe), 3–6 ynowe, 6 enowe. β. (without traces of inflexion) 3–5 in-, ynou, 3–7 in-, ynow, (4–6 inew, ynew, 4 aney, 6–9 Sc. anew, 8–9 dial. enew, enoo), 4– enow.
[See enough. The forms of enough and enow cannot always be discriminated with certainty, as the phonetic value of the ME. and early mod. ȝ, gh, was not uniform. The same graphic form, indeed, may sometimes represent two different pronunciations, one belonging to each series.]
A. adj.
1. ‘The plural of enough’ (J.). (The recent literary use is almost peculiar to Sc. writers.)
Beowulf 3103 (Gr.), Þæt ᵹe ᵹenoᵹe ne on sceawiað beagas and brad gold. c1033Charter Cnut in Cod. Dipl. VI. 183 Leofric eorl, and Osgod Clape, and Ðored, and oðre ᵹenoᵹe. c1175Lamb. Hom. 13 Ic eou wille ȝeuen wela and westme inoȝe. c1200Ormin 7932 Þatt witenn menn inoȝhe. a1225Leg. Kath. 514 Ah wordes þu hauest inohe. a1300Cursor M. 4563 (Gött.) In a medow sliht, floures and gress i-now i fand. c1320Seuyn Sag. (W.) 921 He kest the bor doun hawes anowe. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 558 His Systir Son him slew, And gud men als, ma then Inew. a1400–50Alexander 3931 Bernes was diȝt þe deth with dintis enoghe. c1430Hymns Virg. (1867) 76 God haþ mercies y-now in stoore For a þousand worldis. 1486Bk. St. Albans C j b, Yeue hir birdis Inow both morow and euyn. 1513Douglas æneis ii. vii. (vi.) 23, I than, by cleir takynnis anew, Manifestlie all the Greikis falsheid knew. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xxxix. 10 They shall haue weapens ynew to burne. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 67 He would be sure to name windes enovve. c1611Chapman Iliad xx. 24 His mere looks threw darts enow t'impress Their pow'rs with trembling. 1656Sanderson Serm. (1689) 266 The Devil will be sure to suggest enow of these pretensions. 1702Addison Dial. Medals i. 24, I think there are at Rome enow modern works of Architecture to employ any reasonable man. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 23 There are enow of zealots on both sides. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xxxii, Take with you enow of men. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. I. 254 Enow was formerly used as the plural of enough; but it is now obsolete. 1828H. Steuart Planter's G. 253 Accidents enow will happen, without aggravating them by carelessness. 1868G. Macdonald Eng. Antiphon 210 Without yet having generated thoughts enow concerning the subject itself.
b. predicatively.
1647May Hist. Parl. Pref. 5 Any English man, whose yeares have been enow to make him know the Actions that were done. 1760Sterne Serm. Yorick (1773) IV. 31 As if the causes of anguish in the heart were not enow. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xii. (1813) 154 Three or four [fruits] on a long and strong branch are quite enow. 1825Scott Talism. xix, Those charges, which there are enow to bring against him in his absence.
c. absol. = ‘persons enough’.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 25 There are inow, and more than a good meanie. 1646Crashaw Steps Temple 74 There are enow, whose draughts, as deep as hell, Drink up all Spain in sack. 1669Shadwell Royal Shepherdess i. i, Thou wilt surely have Enow to court thee. 1805Wordsw. Prelude v. (1851) 91 Enow there are on earth to take in charge Their wives, their children, and their virgin loves.
2. As adj. sing. = enough a. 1 a.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 388 Þe kyng and Roberd..wyþ gret ost and strengþe ynou to Engelond come. a1300Cursor M. 2190 (Gött.) Of þat nacion sprang foli enou. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xv. 139 Ich haue mete more þan ynowe. c1420Chron. Vilod. 130 Plenteythe of fysshe þey hadden ynowe. 1471Sir J. Paston in Lett. 670 III. 7, I have hey i new of myn owne. 1672–5T. Comber Comp. Temple (1702) 90 And hence we see we have Reason enow to confess our Sins.
b. predicatively; = enough a. 2.
a1200Moral Ode 385 in Lamb. Hom. 183 Crist scal one beon inou . alle his durlinges. 1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. v. i, That's enow a' conscience! 1814Byron Lara i. xxviii, It was enow To seal his lip, but agonise his brow.
c. absol. = enough a. 3.
a1300Cursor M. 27601 (Cott.) Inow no mai man find o þaa. 1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle ii. lvii. (1859) 56 Ynowe to doo for many a day herafter. a1440Sir Degrev. 1024 Whedur he wol tornay or fyȝthe, He shal have i-now! 1597Daniel Trag. Philotas in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 275, I know t'have said too much, but not ynow.
B. adv. = enough adv. in various senses.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 83 Þat folk was þo of þis lond y payed wel ynow. c1300Beket 2213 Honurede that holi bodi: and custe hit ynoȝe. c1340Cursor M. 1404 (Fairf.) Lorde I-noghe [Trin. Inouȝe] now liued haue I. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 893 Tisbe, To make myn wounde large I-now I gesse. a1449Pecock Repr. 295 It may weel ynowȝ accorde with resoun. a1553Udall Royster D. i. ii. (Arb.) 14 Bee of good cheere; anon ye shall doe well ynow. 1676Hobbes Iliad xiii. 271 Or if you had been hurt 'tis sure enow, Nor in your back nor neck had been the wound. 1814Southey Paraguay i. 19 A few firm stakes..Circling a narrow space, yet large enow. 1850Mrs. Browning Rom. Ganges xxiii, None are frail enow For mortal joys to borrow! 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 235 Bright enow With gold and gems.
b. ellipt. = enough adv. 1 c.
c1440Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 451 When hit is innowe take hit up.
▪ II. enow, adv.2 dial.|ɪˈnaʊ|
[? Short for e'en (= even) now. (But cf. Ger. im nu, Sw. i detta nu.)]
Just now (Sc.); by and by; presently.
1816Scott Antiq. xxiv, ‘We canna howk for't enow.’ 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., I will come enow. |