释义 |
† ˈbysawe Obs. Also 3 bisawe. [early ME. bisawe, f. bi-, by + sawe, saw, saying; cf. by-word.] A current saying; a proverb.
a1225Ancr. R. 88 Me seið ine bisawe—‘Vrom mulne & from cheping..me tiðinge bringeð’. 1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. V. 461 Hit is a bysawe, ‘God have mercy of soules, quoth Oswalde, and fil to þe grounde’. |