| 释义 |
▪ I. joy, n.|dʒɔɪ|
Forms: 3–6 ioie, ioi, 3–7 ioye, ioy, (3 ioiȝe, 4 ioȝe, ioyȝe, yoi, yoe, goye, 5 yoye, yoy), 7 joye, 7– joy.
[ME. a. OF. joie, joye joy, jewel, F. joie (= Pr. joia, Sp. joya, Pg. joia jewel, It. gioja joy, jewel):—pop.L. *gaudia fem. for L. gaudia, pl. of gaudium joy; cf. Pr. joi:—L. gaudium.]
1. a. A vivid emotion of pleasure arising from a sense of well-being or satisfaction; the feeling or state of being highly pleased or delighted; exultation of spirit; gladness, delight.
a1225Ancr. R. 218 Auh efter þe spreoue, on ende,—þeonne is þe muchele ioie. a1240Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 213 Al mi woa on eorðe schal turnen me to ioie. 1340Ayenb. 226 More wes tocne of wepinge and of zorȝe þanne of goye and of ydele blisse. Ibid. 75 Ioye wyþoute ende. c1440York Myst. xxx. 387 Þi joie is in japes. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxxvi. 5 They that sowe in teeres, shal reape in ioye. 1611Bible Job xxxviii. 7 When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy. 1651Bp. Hall Solil. 27 There is little difference betwixt joy and happiness. 1754Richardson Grandison IV. iv. 39, I have joy in the joy of all these good people. 1785Boswell Tour Hebr. 30 Oct., Joseph..reported that the earl ‘jumped for joy’. 1802Wordsw. Resol. Indep. vii, I thought..Of him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side. 1820Keats Ode Melancholy iii, Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu. 1867J. Ingelow Dominion 29 It is a comely fashion to be glad—Joy is the grace we say to God.
b. with a and pl.: an instance or kind of this.
a1300Cursor M. 23366 Ne hert mai think þaa ioies sere, Þat iesu crist has dight til his. c1450Cov. Myst. 261 There joye of alle joyis to the is sewre! c1620Donne Serm. (ed. Alford) IV. 272 This third Ioy..is not a collateral Ioy..but it is a fundamental Ioy, a radical Ioy. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 749 Averse from Venus, and from nuptial Joys. 1855Tennyson Maud i. v. 3 A joy in which I cannot rejoice, A glory I shall not find.
c. The expression of glad feeling; outward rejoicing; mirth; † jubilant festivity.
a1300Cursor M. 3014 Isaac wel es for to sai A man þat takens ioy and plai. c1400Mandeville (1839) xxviii. 286 Whan thei dyen, thei maken gret feste and gret ioye and reuell. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxxvi. 2 Then shall oure mouth be fylled with laughter, and oure tonge with ioye. 1552Huloet, Ioye made for victorie, as bonefyres wyth bankettes, epinicium. 1611Bible Isa. lii. 9 Breake foorth into ioy, sing together, yee waste places. 1800Wordsw. Idle Shepherd-boys 1 The valley rings with mirth and joy.
†d. maiden of joy, a courtesan (F. fille de joie). Obs.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxv. 141 The lively drafts..of a mayden of ioy or a common woman.
†e. ellipt. An expression of sympathetic joy, a congratulation. Cf. phr. to give one (the) joy. Obs.
1656Sir J. Finett For. Ambass. 11 In conclusion, a joy pronounced by the King and Queen, and seconded with congratulation of the Lords there present.
f. Used interjectionally, as an expression of joy.
1719De Foe Crusoe i. xv. (1840) 266 Friday..in a kind of surprise falls a-jumping and dancing..‘O joy!’ says he. 1803–6Wordsw. Intimations ix, O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live. 1817Moore Lalla R., Par. & Peri, Joy, joy for ever! my task is done, The gates are passed, and heaven is won.
g. colloq. Result, satisfaction, success. Esp. with negative, and freq. ironical.
1945Tee Emm (Air Ministry) V. 53 There's even less joy in sending us the money. 1945C. H. Ward-Jackson Piece of Cake (ed. 2) 40 Joy, satisfaction. Thus, ‘Johnnie took the new kite up this morning—had bags of joy’, or ‘no joy at all’. 1946Brickhill & Norton Escape to Danger xxxiii. 294 At 9.15 the workers had been down nearly forty minutes and still ‘no joy’. 1961S. Price Just for Record ii. 17, I..tried to get a taxi. No joy, so back into the studio. 1961H. R. Williamson Wicked Pack Cards ix. 94 Did you get any joy at the picture gallery? 1971D. Bagley Freedom Trap vii. 147 He reported, ‘No joy!’ Ibid. viii. 178 ‘Any joy there?’ She looked up. ‘There's not much more than I told you last night.’ 1972R. Fiennes Ice Fall in Norway vi. 86 It was becoming late—we tried to locate Patrick's position again, but without joy. 1973Scotsman 7 Aug. 8/2 Parking the car in this bay we started to look for a path and a break in the barbed wire—again with no joy.
2. A pleasurable state or condition; a state of happiness or felicity; esp. the perfect bliss or beatitude of heaven; hence, the place of bliss, paradise, heaven; = bliss 2 c, glory 7. Obs. or arch.
c1275Passion Our Lord 586 in O.E. Misc. 54 Þer is my vader and eke heore, and ioye euer ilyche. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 535 Þer abbeþ kinges & mani oþere ofte ibe in ioie. c1320Cast. Love 1519 Þat he wone wiþ vs wiþ-Inne, And aftur þis lyf to Ioye wende. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxi. 141 Þai go to þe ioy of Paradys [il vait en paradis]. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 150 Therfor Sholde a man lytill cowete..the honnoure, the yoy, or the gladnysse of this worlde. 1552Bk. Com. Prayer, Morn. Prayer, So that at the last we may come to hys eternall ioye. c1646Milton Sonn. Mrs. Thomson, Thy works, and alms..Followed thee up to joy and bliss for ever. [1870J. Ellerton Hymn, ‘When the day of toil is done’ iv, Bring us, where all tears are dried, Joy for evermore.]
3. a. A source or object of joy; that which causes joy, or in which delight is taken; a delight.
Joys of Mary (R.C. Ch.), special occasions of joy to the mother of Jesus Christ. The mediæval church reckoned five; lists differ; an early 14th c. poem (Wright Lyric P. (1844) 95) has the Annunciation, Nativity, Epiphany, Resurrection, and her Assumption; later R.C. writers make seven, adding as second and fifth, the Visitation and Finding in the Temple, and making the seventh the Ascension.
c1275Luve Ron in O.E. Misc. 97 His sihte is al ioye and gleo, he is day wyþ-ute nyhte. 1382Wyclif Phil. iv. 1 My britheren moost dereworthe..my ioye and my crowne. c1430Hymns Virg. 67 Quod man, y pleie, y wrastile, y sprynge, Þese ioies wolen neuere wende me fro. 1539Bible (Great) Ps. xlviii. 2 The hyll of Sion is a fayre place, & the ioye of the whole earth. 1611Bible Isa. xxxii. 14 The forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks. 1818Keats Endym. i. 1 A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. 1876Ouida Winter City vi. 151 You can see no horizon from it; that alone is the joy of the moor-land.
a1310in Wright Lyric P. 89 Al thourh that levedy gent and smal, heried by hyr joies fyve. Ibid. 96 The thridde joie of that levedy That men clepeth the Epyphany. 1463Bury Wills 17 Oure ladyes fyve joyes. 1674Brevint Saul at Endor 281 They allow but 40 daies Pardon for saying seven Paters and Aves to the honor of the seven Joies.
b. Used (esp. dial.) as a term of endearment for a sweetheart, child, etc.; a darling: cf. jo 2.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 4 While I..kisse thy faire large eares, my gentle ioy. 1606― Ant. & Cl. i. v. 58 His remembrance lay In Egypt with his ioy. 1789Blake Songs Innoc., Infant Joy 7 Pretty joy! Sweet joy but two days old. 1875B. L. Farjeon Love's Vict. xxv, She instructed her eldest joy how to behave. 1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘My bonny joy!’ my pretty dear.
†4. The quality which causes joy; quality or faculty of delighting; = delight n. 3. Obs. rare.
a1400Pistill of Susan 41 Þus þis dredful demers on dayes þider drewe, Al for gentrise and Ioye of þat Iewesse. 1483Cath. Angl. 197/2 Ioy,..amenitas.
†5. Joyful adoring praise and thanksgiving; = glory 4. Rendering L. glōria (Gr. δόξα), esp. in the doxologies. Obs.
When OE. wuldor, early ME. wulder, became obs., and L. gloria, OF. glorie, gloire, was not yet adopted, Eng. had no word distinctly representing L. gloria. Hence bliss and joy were used naturally at first of the glory of heaven (see sense 2 above, bliss 2 c, glory 4), and extended to this sense in which gloria, gloire represent Gr. δόξα: cf. bliss 3.
a1300Cursor M. 11260 On hei be ioi, and pes on lagh. c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. pr. vi. 139 (Camb. MS.) Þe Iuge þat seeþ and demeþ alle þinges. (To whom be goye and worshipe bi Infynyt tymes Amen.) 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 289 Gloria Patri etc. þat is, Ioye to þe Fadir. a1400Prymer (1891) 17 Ioyȝe be to the fadir, and to the sone, and to the holy goost. 1483Cath. Angl. 197/2 Ioy, adoria..doxa, doxula.
†6.
a. A jewel. (F. joie, Godef.) Obs.
1599Breton Miseries Manillia ii, Here my sweete Mistresse, take this Pearle-ioye Set it in the ring that hangeth at mine eare. 1611Florio, Gioia, a ioy, a gemme, a iewell.
†b. In E. Indian use from Pg. joia. Obs.
1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Chron. 17/1 Shaik Ishmail was convicted of breaking into the house of Pittamber Narrain, and stealing from thence a variety of gold and silver joys. 1809M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1812) 3 To murder these helpless creatures for the sake of their ornaments or joys. 1824Sk. India (ed. 2) 78 Groups of dancing-girls, covered with joys.
7. Astrol. Joys of the Planets: see quots.
[a1400–50Alexander 704 And how þe mode Marcure makis sa mekill ioy.] 1658Phillips, Joyes of the Planets, are when they are in those houses where they are most powerful and strong, as Saturn joyeth in Scorpio. 1706Phillips, Joys of the Planets..are certain Dignities that befall them, either by being in the place of a Planet of like Quality or Condition, or when they are in a House of the Figure agreeable to their own Nature. 1819J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol., Joys of the Planets..Every planet, according to Ptolemy, is in his joy when another is dignified in any of his dignities... They are also said in modern astrology to have their joys in certain houses according to their nature, whether good or evil, thus {saturn} joys in the 12th, {jup} in the 11th.
†8. Isolated obsolete uses.
a. A stage-play.
c1440Promp. Parv. 264/1 Ioy, or pley þat begynnythe wythe sorow, and endythe wythe gladnes, comedia. Ioy, or pley þat begynnythe wythe gladnesse, and endythe wythe sorow, tragedia.
b. (See quot.)
1600J. Dymmok Ireland (1843) 9 Joye is when their idle men require meat and drinke out of meale tymes..it is as much to say as a benevolence.
9. In various phrases:
†a. to have joy of, to be highly pleased or delighted with. †b. to make joy, to rejoice. With indirect obj., To give a glad welcome. †c. to take joy, to take pleasure, be glad, rejoice. d. to wish (arch. give) one († the) joy of, to express sympathetic joy or give one's good wishes to a person on a happy occasion; to congratulate. Often ironical. Cf. joy v. 5 b. e. God give you joy, joy go with you, etc., ejaculations expressive of good wishes.
a.1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 253 Al þe kun þat him iseiȝ adde of him ioye inou. c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋768 They were so..rauysshed and hadden so greet ioye of hire, that wonder was to telle. c1450Merlin 184 Whan Gawein vndirstode the speche of his brother, he hadde of hym hertely ioye, and moche he hym preysed. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 60, I trust you shall have joy of me, and..I doubt not but so to behave my selfe, that I shall well deserve this good liking..of my master.
b.c1300Havelok 1209 Hise children..maden ioie swiþe mikel. c1320Cast. Love 1771 in Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS., The apostlys and the martiris, The confessors and the virginis, Alle wolle him ioy makyn. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 79/1 Thenne ranne the dogge..and cam home as a messager fawnyng and makyng ioye with hys tail. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. iii. 32 Such ioy made Vna when her knight she found.
c.1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. i. 90 Ros. Am not I your Rosalind? Orl. I take some ioy to say you are. 1611― Wint. T. v. i. 80 Such As..it should take ioy To see her in your armes.
d.1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 200, I wish him ioy of her. 1631T. Adams in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 147, I wish you much joy in the execution of that hopefull employment. 1638W. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS., Montagu Ho. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 277 Sir Christ. Yerlverton gave him first joy of his office. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 141 Ye Earle having just marry'd his Eldest daughter..there was Company to wishe her joy. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) iv. Introd., I give you joy of having found out that. 1855Thackeray Newcomes ii, Newcome, my boy..I give you joy. 1885J. Payn Heir Ages xlvi, You will even go the length of wishing them joy of their bargain.
e.a1440Sir Eglam. 608 Syr, yf you yoye of yowre chylde. c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 550 So god..gyf me Ioy of my chylde! 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 448 God giue thee ioy of him. 1596― Merch. V. iii. ii. 190 To cry good ioy, good ioy my Lord and Lady. 1603― Meas. for M. v. i. 532 Ioy to you Mariana. 1742Pope Dunc. iv. 54 Joy to great Chaos! let Division reign. 1824–46Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. I. 171 There we leave her, and joy go with her.
10. Comb. objective and obj. genitive, as joy-killer, joy-maker; joy-bringing, joy-dispelling, joy-inspiring adjs.; instrumental, etc., as joy-bright, joy-encompassed, joy-rapt, joy-resounding, joy-wrung adjs.; joy-bereft, joy-mixt adjs.; attrib., of or expressing joy, as joy-gift, joy-night, joy-note, joy-offering, joy-tear; joy-bells, -fire, bells rung, or a bonfire lighted [F. feu de joie], to celebrate a joyful event; joy-firing, lighting of joy-fires; the firing of celebratory shots (cf. feu de joie 2); joy-flight, an aerial joy-ride; so joy-flying; joy-gun, a gun fired to celebrate a joyful event; joy-house slang, a brothel; joy juice U.S. slang, alcoholic drink; † joy-making, merrymaking; joy-plank, a plank leading from the stage to the audience in a theatre, for the use of performers; joy-popper slang (orig. U.S.), an occasional taker of illegal drugs; hence [back-formations] joy-pop, (an inhalation or injection of) a drug; joy-pop v. intr., joy-popping vbl. n.; † joy-sop, a sop made by dipping cake in wine; joy-stick, (a) slang, the control-lever of an aeroplane; the controls of another vehicle; also attrib., transf., and fig.; (b) a small lever that can be moved in each of two dimensions to control the movement of an image on a television or VDU screen; also Comb.; joy-weed, a plant of the genus Alternanthera (Miller Plant-n. 1884); joy-wheel, a form of amusement consisting of either (a) a gigantic wheel-shaped structure, as on a fairground, on which passengers are carried in cars rotating round the axis, or (b) (see quot. 1954).
1836Mayne Siller Gun v. xliv, When now, in tune, The *joy-bells chime. 1894F. M. Elliot Roman Gossip i, Every church echoes joy-bells to the deep boom of Saint Peter's.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. i. ii, Cybell, *ioy-bereft, And Vesta..Did both lament.
1744Akenside Pleas. Imag. iii. 91 Chief the glance Of wishful envy draws their *joy-bright eyes.
c1600Davison Ps. cxxv, Peace, *joy-bringing peace And plentie shall for euer dwell With God's owne chosen Israell.
1811W. R. Spencer Poems 54 Through all her *joy-deserted seats.
1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. iii. 169 The *joy-encompassed path of Song.
1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) I. 53 Old London was..in a blaze with *joy-fires.
1864― Fredk. Gt. xvii. vii, Such a ‘*joy-firing’ for Lobositz. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) cxvii. 635 The shooting he heard was joy-firing.
1923Daily Mail 7 Aug. 8/2 The ‘*joy flights’ in three-seater Avros, at 5s. a time. 1928Daily Express 3 July 12 Strict regulations were made against joy-flights during the war.
1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. ii. 123 And foiled The *joy-guns of their echo.
1940R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely iii. 24, I ain't been in a *joy house in twenty years. 1970‘B. Mather’ Break in Line iii. 43 All right—so you're a sailor in a joy-house with a sore foot.
1819Shelley Cyclops 170 The Bacchic dew Of *joy-inspiring grapes.
1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 297/2 *Joy-juice, liquor. 1974Black World Mar. 56/2 He could hear the others as in a dream, laughing, telling dirty jokes, playing cards and swizzling joy⁓juice.
1858Doran Crt. Fools 336 To place..the German fools or *joy-makers before a foreign public.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 56 In alle his *joy makyng..He felle dede doun colde as any stone.
1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. xlvii, Oh..fill with pious awe and *joy-mixt woe the heart.
1925T. Dreiser Amer. Tragedy I. i viii. 53 Being invited by them to a *joy-night supper—a ‘blow-out’ as they termed it..he decided to go. 1928Daily Mail 7 Aug. 12/7 It was a ‘joy night’, although many people were still unable to believe that they could..buy a packet of cigarettes openly.
1898Athenæum 27 Aug. 281/3 No *joy-peal was rung.
1924Illustr. London News 27 Dec. 1265/2 The picture of the Grand Ballet at Florence in 1616..shows a method of presentation which was in vogue here in Revues a year or two ago, and is still continued in the Cabarets; performers leaving the stage by means of steps and ‘*joy-planks’. 1970J. B. Priestley Edwardians iii. 247 (caption) Shirley Kellogg leading the chorus along the joy plank in Hullo Ragtime! at the London Hippodrome in 1912.
1939Detective Fiction Weekly 18 Mar. 59/1 If you should happen to hear anybody speaking of a suey⁓pow or a *joy-pop or of gowing out the lemon bowl,..bring him right here. 1951Time 26 Feb. 24/3 A sniff of heroin is a ‘snort of horse’, and an injection under the skin a ‘joy pop’. 1954Beckhardt & Brown Violators viii. 238 Every now and then he would ‘joy-pop’ (take an occasional injection) but he thought he could avoid the ‘hook’ (addiction) by ‘spacing his shots’. 1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed v. 41, I take a joy-pop once in a while. Ibid. vii. 51 So you're handling a bit of hot stuff as well as joy-popping? 1964D. Warner Death of Dreamer i. i. 8 Each junkie is taking an average of twenty joy-pops a day. The joy-pops are sold in one-grain packets, called decks by the junkies.
1936Amer. Speech XI. 123/1 *Joy-popper, a person, not a confirmed addict, who indulges in an occasional shot of dope. However, joy-popping is usually the beginning of a permanent addiction. If the joy-popper has trouble establishing the desire and pleasure from indulging it, he is called a student. 1949N. Algren Man with Golden Arm i. 24 They called those using the stuff only occasionally ‘joy-poppers’ and wished them all great joy. For the ‘joy-poppers’ had no intention of becoming addicts in the true sense. 1972J. Brown Chancer ii. 30 The weekend ravers and joy-poppers..for whom smoke and amphetamines alone were not enough.
1648Herrick Hesper., Twelfe Night iii, Let us make *Joy-sops with the cake.
1910R. Loraine Diary 9 Apr. in W. Loraine Robert Loraine (1938) vi. 105 In order that he shall not blunder inadvertently into the air, the central lever—otherwise the cloche, or *joy-stick is tied well forward. 1916Joy-stick [see control lever]. 1932Auden Orators ii. 52 Joystick—Pivot of power And responder to pressure And grip for the glove. 1936Amer. Speech XI. 123/1 Joy stick, an opium pipe. 1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 104 Joysticks, the two levers by which the steering of tanks and some other tracked vehicles was controlled. 1950G. Barker News of World 44 My love, my love, lift up your joystick hand. Dismiss the dividing Grief. 1952A. Tustin Automatic & Manual Control 467 Both hands held at approximately elbow height a joystick that could be rotated or deflected about a universal coupling, to control the spot movement in elevation and traverse. Ibid. 468 The joystick controlled the movements of the spotlight. 1964S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) x. 98 (caption) Joystick lever for horizontal course and fine adjustments. 1967Times Rev. Industry Mar. 43/3 The system is simply operated by a keyboard and joystick—no computer programming knowledge is needed. 1969G. Macbeth War Quartet 34 Easing the joy-sticks to their mid-riffs. 1978J. Miller Body in Question (1982) viii. 339 By using a joystick, subjects can track a moving spot on a television set with a follow spot of their own. 1983Your Computer (Austral.) Aug. 14/2 Standard features of the Fox-640 include a Forth programming system card, joystick port, [etc.]. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 244/3 The game is joystick-controlled and has three skill levels.
1911Oxford Times 9 Sept. 10/6 A new form of amusement to Oxford, known as the ‘*Joy Wheel’. 1942‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair i. i. 7 Perhaps twenty times it passed to and fro, as if outside some great joy-wheel were oscillating idly in a derelict amusement park. 1954Engineer 27 Aug. 282/2 A once-popular novelty, now obsolete, was the ‘Joywheel’, or ‘Devil's Disc’. This consisted of a power-driven spinning disc, slightly domed and having a smooth surface. It was surrounded by a stationary padded circular platform, which in turn was surrounded by a padded wall. Riders sat on the disc while it was stationary and, as it accelerated, were eventually thrown off against the padding. 1968D. Braithwaite Fairground Archit. 65 A panoramic ‘Joy Wheel’ using kinetoscope effects to create the illusion of a race between motor-car and train.
▪ II. joy, v.|dʒɔɪ|
Forms: 3–6 ioyen, 4–5 ioie(n, 4–7 ioye, ioy, (5 ioi), 7 joye, 7– joy.
[ME. a. OF. joir to rejoice, enjoy, welcome, etc., F. jouir = Pr. gaudir, gauzir, jauzir:—pop.L. *gaudīre = L. gaudēre to rejoice.]
†1. refl. To experience joy; to find or take pleasure; to enjoy oneself; to rejoice. Obs.
c1260Somer is comen in Rel. Ant. I. 100 This day beginniz to longe, And this foules everichon joye hem wit songe. 1614Meriton Chr. Assur. House 13 To joy our selves in things uncertaine is but an induction of griefe. 1712Addison Spect. No. 517 ⁋2 He has never joyed himself since.
2. intr. To feel or manifest joy; to be glad; to rejoice, exult. Occas. with it or cognate obj.
a1300Cursor M. 17976 Wiþ cry þei ioyeden euerychone. a1325Prose Psalter xl[i]. 12 Myn enemy ne shal nouȝt ioien up me. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 387/1 Al the celestyal courte ioyed and songen thys verce. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xliv. 147, I shall neuer ioy in my herte vnto the tyme I haue slayne the. 1602Narcissus (1893) 422 Ah, the poore rascall, never ioyd it since. 1605Chapman All Fooles i. i, To ioy one ioy, and thinke both one thought, Liue both one life. 1715–20Pope Iliad iii. 37 So joys a lion, if the branching deer Or mountain-goat, his bulky prize, appear. 1885M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird xxiv, She had..sympathised and sorrowed and joyed with them.
b. To rejoice or delight: const. in († of, at, with), to do something, or with clause.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1990 Makayre ioyede þat þey were so stable. a1340Hampole Psalter v. 14 Ioy sall all in þe þat lufis þi name. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. iii. 66 Þei ioy more at vanyte þan þou at trouþe. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. iii. (Cock & Fox) 537 Prydfull he was, and joyit of his sin. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxxii. (W. de W.) Ff ij b/2 Some bestys Ioye of theyr owne colours. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Pet. iv. 11 If they do repent, it is to be ioyed at. 1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. v. iii, I joy, my lord, your highness is so strong. 1690Child Disc. Trade (1694) 255 This is sufficient to make us little to joy in foreigners money. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 345 O my good old Acquaintances, said I, I joy to see you. 1837Howitt Rur. Life iii. vi. (1862) 274 Back to the scenes in which he early joyed.
c. Astrol. Of a planet: see joy n. 7.
1658,1819[see joy n. 7]. 1855Smedley Occult Sci. 311 Cogent reasons are given why the planets should joy in these houses rather than others.
†d. trans. To rejoice at. Obs.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlv, Edward Duke of Buckingham, whose end That Prelate ioyde, the people moend. 1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. iv. ii. Wks. 1878 II. 105 Thou shalt not joy his death. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal xv. 86, I joy it, and I thinke it self does so.
3. trans. To fill with joy; to gladden, delight.
†a. quasi-impers.: with of or clause. Obs.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 12110 The syxte grace of shryfte to neuene Hyt ioyeth alle þe court of heuene. c1400Destr. Troy 214 It Ioyes me, Iason, of þi iust werkes. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon x. 20 It joys me that such men..should lay their liking on this base estate. 1651Cromwell in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 366 It joyes mee to heere thy soule prospereth. 1703Rowe Fair Penit. i. i. 320 It joys my heart that I have found you.
b. With ordinary subject. arch.
c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 68 God wol be man, Mankend to save, and that joyth me. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 68 For his sake that ioyed vs all with his birth. 1667Pepys Diary 2 Sept., Which did mightily joy me. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. ix. (1860) 209 O, how these strangers joy'd my sight. 1845A. M. Hall Whiteboy ix. 76 The barrel was..smooth enough to joy the heart of a Red Indian.
†c. pass.. to be joyed, to be rejoiced or delighted, to find joy or delight. Obs.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxv. 10 A man that is ioȝid [L. jucundatur, 1388 is myrie] in sones lyuende. 1486Surtees Misc. (1888) 53 Gretely gladdit and joyed of the commyng of his moost riall persone. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 273 How joied we are that so good event hath followed. 1676Hobbes Iliad xix. 165, I am joy'd The counsel you have given us to hear. 1725Pope Odyss. vii. 355 My soul was joy'd in vain; For angry Neptune rouz'd the raging main.
4. To derive enjoyment from; to possess or use with enjoyment; to enjoy. † Formerly, also, in weaker sense, To have the use or benefit of: = enjoy 4, joise 2.
a. trans. arch.
c1320Sir Tristr. 47 A forward fast þai bond Þat ich a man schul ioien his. c1400Apol. Loll. 77 He schal ioi it as his oune. 1515Barclay Egloges iv. (1570) C iv/2, I graunt thee Codrus to ioy my armony. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 53 Him succeded Marius, Who ioyd his dayes in great tranquillity. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 1166 Who might have liv'd and joy'd immortal bliss. 1700Dryden Cymon & Iph. 544, I will be there, And join'd by thee intend to joy the fair. 1866Alger Solit. Nat. & Man iv. 282 He was at home, with the things he joyed.
†b. intr. with of. (F. jouir de.) Obs.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. viii. 189 Who useth, or ioyeth wyttyngely of lettres or of graces so graunted. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) B iv b, Yf that age was glorious in ioyeng of his persone, no lesse it is to vs to ioye of his doctrines. 1564Brief Exam. *iv b, Howe lytle we shall ioy of them, and vse them.
†5. trans. To salute or greet with expressions of joy, welcome, or honour; in early use, to give glory to, glorify, extol. Obs.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. x. (Skeat) l. 76 If thou laudest and ioyest any wight, for he is stuffed with soche maner richesse. c1450Merlin 579 ‘Sir’, seide Merlin, ‘I wolde ye dide ioy and honour these lordes that here be assembled to diffende youre reame’. 1693Dryden Persius i. (1697) 412 Met by his trembling Wife, returning home, And Rustically Joy'd, as Chief of Rome. 1725Pope Odyss. xiv. 489 The faithful servant joy'd his unknown lord.
†b. To give or wish (a person) joy of something; to congratulate. Const. of (in). Obs.
1483Cath. Angl. 197/2 To Ioy,..coletari..congaudere, gratari. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 885 Embassadours from their neighbour princes, came to joy them of this victorie. 1660Pepys Diary 22 Aug., In the House..I met with Mr. G. Montagu, and joyed him in his entrance [as M.P.] for Dover. 1701Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. iv. i. 1578, I come to joy you of a Crown.
†c. intr. To offer honour or salutation to. Obs.
1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 47 Then this goldsmyth..wyth an enarrabulle gestur and behauing of gladnes ioyde to my leder and..ofte bowde done al hys body worshippyng and greting hym with innumerable thankys.
†6. trans. To convert into joy. Obs. nonce-use.
1645Rutherford Trial & Tri. Faith ix. (1845) 105 To the saints..hell (to speak so), is heavened, sorrow joyed.
Hence joyed |dʒɔɪd| ppl. a. [cf. OF. joï rejoiced, delighted], rejoiced, delighted; † taking delight in.
1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 15 Persones of evyll riotous and sedicious dispositions joyed in rumor and rebellious novelries. 1640Lady Goring in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1888) IV. 150 Truly hee waes the Most Ioyed man in the World. 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint. ii. Palm-Sunday ii, Put on your best array; Let the joy'd road make holy-day. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 9 Each varied charm how joy'd would he pursue. |