| 释义 |
▪ I. † deˈboise, v. Obs.
Also 7 deboyst, -boish, -boysh.
[A by-form of debosh debauch, with which it is connected by various intermediate forms: see deboist ppl. a. The phonetic history is not clear.]
1. refl. To leave one's employment; to take recreation. [= F. se débaucher, Littré.]
1633J. Done Hist. Septuagint 44 Worke-men..whom hee helde so close to their businesse that hee would not give them any leasure to deboyst themselves nor to idle sport by no meanes.
2. trans. To corrupt morally; to deprave by sensuality; = debauch v. 2. Also fig.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. i. 35 Wicked wretch as I am, to be at such a late houre deboysing my selfe. 1654Z. Coke Logick (1657) A iij b, Corruption of manners..doth deboish a people. 1656in Burn Poor Laws (1764) 47 They do make it their trade..to cheat, deboyst [? deboyse], cozen, and deceive the young gentry. 1662J. Davies Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 333 To make a temperate use of the Philosophy of Aristotle..not deboysting himself.
3. To spend prodigally; to squander; = debauch v. 5.
1632Quarles Div. Fancies iii. lxxv. (1664), One part to cloath our pride, Another share we lavishly deboise To vain, or sinful joyes.
▪ II. † deˈboise, a. Obs.
[Corruption of deboist: cf. debauch a.]
= next.
1632Randolph Jealous Lovers iii. ii, The deboisest Roarers in the citie. 1644Bulwer Chiron. 34 One Polemon a deboyse young man. 1667–9Butler Rem. (1759) II. 205 (A clown) All the worst Names that are given to Men..as Villain, Deboyse, Peasant, &c. |