单词 | christ-cross-row |
释义 | Christ-cross-rown. 1. The alphabet. Cf. cross-row n. Now historical.So named from the figure of a cross prefixed to the alphabet in hornbooks and primers for teaching children to read; cf. Christ-cross n. 2a.The reference to Malachi in quot. 1762 can be explained by the fact that the Old Testament was the reading book given to the most advanced pupils. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > alphabet > [noun] > the alphabet, allusively cross of Christa1475 Christ's cross me speedc1475 cross-rowa1529 Christ-cross1563 Christ-cross-row1570 row1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 956/2 Of the same Ward he learned his Christ Crosse row. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xviii. 180 I sweare..by the crisse-crosse row, by the whole Alphabet. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xlii. 140 Four years in travelling from Christ-cross-row to Malachi; A year and a half in learning to write his own name. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion viii. 378 Infant conning of the Christ-cross-row . View more context for this quotation 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 52 Twelve or fourteen neat rosy chubby little children, learning their Chris-cross-row. 2012 J. Morgan Secret Life W. Shakespeare iii. 69 Though her father once began teaching her to read with Bartholomew's hornbook, she never got much further than the criss-cross row. 2. figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [noun] > methodical or catalogue schedule1516 Christ-cross-row1579 catalogue1667 matricularya1676 schemea1676 catalogue raisonné1784 cumulation1900 schematization1940 hit list1970 the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot every whita1450 every stitch?a1500 the devil and all1543 prow and poop1561 Christ-cross-row1579 every snip1598 thread and thrum1600 boodle1625 hair and hoof1705 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 tutti quanti1772 lot1791 lock, stock, and barrel1824 stock and fluke1825 the whole boiling1837 box and dice1839 the whole caboodlea1848 sub-cheese1859 the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859 the whole jingbang1866 the whole hypothec1871 the whole ball of wax1882 the whole (entire) shoot1884 (at) every whip-stitch1888 work1899 issue1919 guntz1958 full monty1979 1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 73 In the whole crisse-crosse rowe..of moral or intellectual vertues. a1652 R. Brome New Acad. iv. ii. 82 in Five New Playes (1659) In your crisse-crosse-row of complement. b. The rudiments or elementary part of a subject; the basics or ‘ABC’. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > rudiments elements1382 ABCa1393 ground1528 introduction1532 principles1532 rudiments1534 institution1537 accidence1562 institute1578 alphabet1593 ut, re1598 gamut1600 Christ-cross-row1608 grammates1633 initiament1727 notion1839 propaedeutics1842 rudimentaries1852 1608 H. Ainsworth Counterpoyson 174 This opinion, he calleth the A, b, c, of Brownisme: but he may put it if he please in the Criss-crosse-rew of Bernardisme; he himself being the first that I ever heard to utter such a position. 1684 T. Southerne Disappointment iii. i. 31 God sa' me she is not come to the Criss-cross-row of her profession yet. 1777 W. Burke Let. Valens 77 He did not know that first elemental principle in the criss cross row of commerce, which is—the imprudence of throwing good money after bad, and expending a capital without expectation of return. 1934 D. Thomas 18 Poems ii. 12 He had by heart the Christ-cross-row of death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1570 |
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