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▪ I. anear, adv. and prep.|əˈnɪə(r)|
[cf. anew, afar.]
A. adv.
1. Nearly, well-nigh, almost, to a nearness.
1608Shakes. Per. iii. Introd. 51 The lady shrieks, & well a-near Does fall in travail with her fear. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 241 They know anear in what parts they [water-fowl] most usually frequent. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 10 Your wisdom may declare That womanhood is proved the best By golden brooch..Yet is it proved, and was of old, Anear as well..By truth, or by despair.
2. Near, as opposed to afar.
1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. v. v, And soon I heard a roaring wind, It did not come anear. 1805Scott Last Minstr. v. xxxi, Now seems it far, and now a-near. 1870Morris Earth. Par. I. i. 283 And timidly the women drew anear.
B. prep. Near, near to.
a1732Atterbury Lett. 1. (T.) To fright the clergy..from coming anear me. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 117 While anear thee Pours this sorrow-stricken maid The pure libation. 1879Long æneid ix. 889 Anear some river's bank.
▪ II. anear, v. arch.|əˈnɪə(r)|
Also 6 anere, -eer, -erre, 7 annear.
[f. a- prefix II + near v.]
†1. intr.
a. To draw near, or approach to. Obs.
1534State Papers, Henry VIII, II. 200 Diverse husbandmen aneryth un to hym. 1583Stanyhurst Aeneis ii. (Arb.) 54 Such troups as neauer too citty Troian aneered.
†b. To be near or close to. Obs.
1583Stanyhurst Aeneis ii. (Arb.) 66 A tumb to Troytowne and mouldy tempil aneereth.
2. trans. To approach, come or be near to; to near. arch.
1586J. Hooker Giraldus's Hist. Irel. in Holinsh. II. 94/2 If they durst anerre the coast. a1687P. Walsh quoted in Q. Rev. XXXVIII. 543 Never has any other nation..anneared the Milesian race..in the most unnatural..destructive feuds. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 52 The castle..to-night anears its fall. 1875Myers Poems 2 Yet not in solitude if Christ anear me. |