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▪ I. glimpse, n.|glɪmps|
Forms: 6 glymse, 6–7 glimce, -s(e, glimps, glymps(e, 7 glinse, 7– glimpse.
[f. the vb.]
1. A momentary shining, a flash. lit. and fig. Now somewhat arch. and with mixture of sense 3. the glimpses of the moon (Shakes.): the earth by night; often quoted in wider sense, sublunary scenes.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. iv. 53 What may this meane? That thou..Revisits thus the glimpses of the Moone? 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. ii. xxvi, His staring eyes did glow..their glimpse did showe Like Cockatrices eyes. 1635–56Cowley Davideis i. 85 No dear Glimpse of the Sun's lovely Face, Strikes through the solid Darkness of the Place. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iv. 66 They that held the Stars of heaven were but rayes and flashing glimpses of the Empyreal light, through holes and perforation of the upper heaven. 1700Dryden Ilias i. Fables 214 One glimpse of Glory to my Issue give. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxx, A glimpse of the moon showed the dark and huge tower. 1833H. Martineau Briery Creek i. 1 There had been glimpses of starlight in the intervals of the shifting spring storms. 1840De Quincey Rhet. Wks. 1862 X. 25 English Crackenthorpius..though buried for two centuries, will revisit the glimpses of the moon. 1844Whittier Bridal of Pennacook 62 Sweet human faces, white clouds of the noon, Slant starlight glimpses through the dewy leaves. 1847Tennyson Princ. Concl. 46 We climb'd The slope to Vivian-place, and turning saw..The shimmering glimpses of a stream.
b. A moment. rare.
1812Byron Ch. Har. i. xiii (Orig. Draft) Pleased for a glimpse appear'd the woeful childe.
2. A faint and transient appearance. † Also, an occasionally perceptible resemblance; a tinge or trace (of a quality). Obs.
c1540Surrey Descr. Fickle Affect. Panges 46 in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 7 Reuiued with a glimse of grace olde sorowes to let fall. a1602W. Perkins Cases Consc. (1619) 147 God would manifest his glory vnto him..by a glympse or imperfect representation. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. ii. 25 There is no man hath a vertue, that he hath not a glimpse of. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §33 There is not any creature that hath so neere a glympse of their [spirits'] nature, as light in the Sunne and Elements. 1671Milton P.R. i. 93 In his face The glimpses of his Father's glory shine. a1704T. Brown Persius' Sat. i. Wks. 1730 I. 53 A glimpse of human stamp it has. 1836Emerson Nature, Prospects Wks. (Bohn) II. 170 Imperfect theories and sentences which contain glimpses of truth. 1842Tennyson Will Waterproof viii, If old things, there are new; Ten thousand broken lights and shapes, Yet glimpses of the true.
†b. Mere appearance. Obs.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 603/2 Men, yt neuer did any thing worth in their life, but only in a glimce & shew.
3. A momentary and imperfect view (of), a passing glance. (The current sense.)
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 363 The Basilike, whose eyes procure delight to the looker at the first glymse, and death at the second glaunce. 1682Bunyan Holy War 208 Here and there one or other had a glimpse of him as he did make his escape out of Mansoul. 1726Pope Let. 3 Sept. in Swift's Wks. 1841 II. 589/2, I had a glimpse of a letter of yours lately. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian i. (1826) 6 He hoped to obtain a glimpse of Ellena at a lattice. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 16, I had a glimpse of two or three half-naked wretches, rushing from her cabin. 1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 13 At one point a glimpse is caught of the whole of Coniston Lake.
b. fig.
1570Dee Math. Pref. 26 To wynne a glyms (as it were) or shaddow of perceiuerance. 1596Spenser Hymn Heavenly Beauty 221 Seene but a glims of this which I pretend. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 193 Of this joy thy dazeled eyes might have some glimps. 1681R. Wittie Surv. Heavens 36 From the Contemplation of the Heavens..we have some glimpse of God's Infinity. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 190 Those..cannot have the least glimpse of the subject before us. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. v. (1869) 121 Not a glimpse can you get of the merits or defects of the performers. 1874Green Short Hist. iv. §4. 188 Whenever we get a glimpse of the inner history of an English town.
▪ II. glimpse, v.|glɪmps|
Forms: 3 glymsen, 6 glynce, glym(p)se, 6–7 glimse, 6– glimpse.
[ME. glymse-n (?:—OE. *glimsian:—WGer. *glimmisôjan) = MHG. glimsen, f. root of glim n. and v.]
1. intr. To shine faintly or intermittently; to glimmer, glitter. lit. and fig.
c1400R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) App. xx. 252 Hure fon were loþ to loke on snou þat was so whit Þat glymsede on hare eyȝen. c1540Surrey Forsaken Louer in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 23 In my hert her eye Hath made her thought appere, By glimsing with such grace. 1592Conspir. Pretended Ref. Pref. 2 No sooner did the beames of his Gospell beginne to glimpse and breake foorth. 1601Munday Downf. Earl Huntington ii. i. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 255 Little glow-worms glimpsing in the dark. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. 181 The Law of God, which glimpsed in their hearts. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ Def. xxxiii. 307 Some discern some light thereof glimpsing from the precedent verses. 1843Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes, Moon of South 69, I have watched the shapes thy glory made, Glimpsing like starlight through the massive pine.
b. To come into view; to appear faintly; to dawn. Now only poet. or arch.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars v. xlv, Deformed shadowes glimpsing in his sight, As darknes for it would more darkned be, Through those poore crannies forc'd it selfe to see. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xii. xlvi, Then glimpst the hopefull morrow. 1851Whittier Chapel Hermits 41 Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong, the eternal right. 1856Aird Poet. Wks. 90 Come dusky masses glimpsing through the night. 1862B. Taylor Home & Abr. Ser. ii. 103 The intervening plain glimpsed nearer.
†2. To have a glimmering of vision. Obs.
c1386[see glimpsing vbl. n.] 1519W. Horman Vulg. 30 b, I se but half glyncynge at myddyl noone [cæcutio].
†3. trans. (See quot.) Obs.— 0
1598Florio, Abbacinare..to glimpse or blinde the sight.
4. To give a glimpse of. Also with out. rare.
1663Sir G. Mackenzie Relig. Stoici i. (1685) 6 The twilight of darkened reason glimsing to man that impressa of the divine Image. 1671J. Flavel Fount. Life ii. 4 Now, to glimpse out the unspeakable felicity of that State of Christ. 1888Science XI. 257/1 The psychology of the developing child, glimpsing as it does..the microcosm of the race and an epitome of the struggle for civilization.
5. To catch a glimpse of (either a material or immaterial object); to see by glimpses.
1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 292 Sometimes Rajah Moodo would ask the Spanish envoy and me to talk about religion; glimpsing in some things the difference between Romish and Protestant. 1823New Monthly Mag. VIII. 503 She glimpsed the peak of my mitre in the waters. 1851J. Hamilton Royal Preacher xx. (1854) 257 His penetrating eye can glimpse the tokens of a bright Epiphany. 1870J. R. Lowell My Study Wind. I. 5, I seem to glimpse something of this familiar weakness in Mr. White. 1879Lockyer in Nature 6 Nov. 8/1 It will..be granted that an inorganic evolution is already glimpsed. 1885Howells Silas Lapham (1891) I. 235 Her face, glimpsed now and then in the moonlight..had a fascination which kept his eye.
6. intr. To cast a passing glance. Const. at, upon; also with advs.
1833Whittier Ex. New Eng. Leg. 13 No more the unquiet churchyard dead Glimpse upward from their turfy bed. a1834Lamb Let. to Moxon in Final Mem. viii. 277 When I came home I read your letter, and glimpsed at your beautiful sonnet. 1854Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1883) II. 70 Glimpsing in, you see that a cottager's life must be the very plainest and homeliest that ever was lived by men and women. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion iii. vi. 130 Here glimpse upon the soul-imagined shores.
Hence glimpsed ppl. a. Also ˈglimpser, one who glimpses.
1649R. Dingley (title) Messiah's Splendor; or, the Glimpsed Glory of a Beauteous Christ. c1800K. White Time 245 By indistinct and half-glimpsed images. 1841Blackw. Mag. L. 77 Hear it ye glimpsers into Almacks! |