单词 | crambe |
释义 | † cramben. Obsolete. 1. Cabbage: only figurative, and usually in reference to the Latin phrase crambe repetīta cabbage repeated, renewed, or served up again, applied by Juvenal ( vii. 154 Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros) to any distasteful repetition. So in medieval Latin crambe bis cocta, bis posita, cabbage twice sodden, twice served up. ΚΠ 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 151 I maruell that you so fine a feeder, will fall to your crambe. 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 301 This never cometh, but for want of other matter, being a crambe, oftentimes sodde. 1660 J. Gauden Antisacrilegus 17 That Boanerges..hath so oft..killed the world with the poysonous cramb of his Paradoxes. 1711 G. Cary Physician's Phylactic 329 It is nauseous to the strongest Stomach to have the Crambe bisconcocted so often drest up. a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1765) 289 It was indeed a Hash of ill-cooked Crambe. 2. Hence, (Distasteful) repetition. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > story or news which is dull through repetition coleworts twice sodden1577 sanctus1594 crambe1611 staleness1617 cramboc1670 cold treat1709 chestnut1880 1611 W. Sclater Key (1629) 330 That Crambe, Zach. 9. 11, etc. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. vii. §18. 397 You obtrude upon us this Crambe no fewer then seven times. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 17 Can we not understand an order..of praying, reading, expounding, and administring, unlesse our praiers be still the same Crambe of words? 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Crambe, a Repetition of Words, or saying the same Thing over again. 1757 J. Byrom Rem. on Pamphlet in Misc. Poems (1773) I. 212 Forbid the Gallic Namby Pamby Here to repeat its crazy Crambe. 3. = crambo n. 1b, 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > fashion in drinking crambo1606 crambe1631 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > crambo, etc. crambe1631 crambo1660 dumb crambo1811 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. viii. 110 in Wks. II F. Ioule, owle, foule, troule, boule. P. Crambe, another of the Diuell's games! 1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 114 Where every Iouial Tinker, for his chinke, May cry, mine host, to crambe, giue vs drinke; And doe not slinke, but skinke, or else you stinke. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Crambe or Crambo, a Term us'd among School-boys, when in Rhiming, he is to forfeit, who repeats a word that was said before. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. 353. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus v, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 199 Nauseating crambe verities and questions over-queried. 1681 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Naked Truth 21 A Crambee-Pun and Quibble. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [verb (intransitive)] > play crambo crambea1637 a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub iv. i. 99 in Wks. (1640) III Change my name of Miles, To Guile's, Wile's, Pile's, Bile's, or the foulest name You can devise, to crambe with, for ale. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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