单词 | alder-eldest |
释义 | > as lemmasalder-eldest b. Prefixed to a superlative adjective with the sense ‘of all, the very’, as alder-eldest, alder-fairest, alder-youngest, etc. Usually in cases where modern English typically has of all following the adjective (when used predicatively) or the noun (when the adjective is used attributively). Cf. all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Phrases 3a. In later use chiefly in alderliefest adj. at sense 1c.Also occasionally when the adjective is used as a noun (see, e.g., quot. 1614 at β. ). ΚΠ α. β. c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 222 (MED) At Middai wanne þo dai is alþer hotestd.c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1040 (MED) Þe chaunpiouns..maden mikel strout Abouten þe alþerbeste but.c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xliv. 4 (MED) Be þou girded wyþ þy myȝt, aldermyȝtfullichest [L. potentissime].a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings ix. 10 Alþer best is þi woord, cum & go wee.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7391 (MED) Quar es þin alþer-yongest [a1400 Gött. alder ȝingest] son?a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 449 And alderlast of euerychon Was peynted pouert al aloon.c1440 (?c1350) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 32 He es al-þir-myghtyeste and alþirwyseste, and alswa alþire-beste.c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1323 (MED) Quare althire-thickest was þe thrange, þurȝe þaim he rynnes.c1600 (c1350) Alisaunder (Greaves) (1929) 27 His alder-aldust sonne þat Alisaunder hight Þo was crouned king.1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G5v They beene of pleasances the alderbest. 1896 T. Common tr. F. Nietzsche Contra Wagner 63 The indescribably pathetic happiness of a last, alder-last, alder-shortest enjoyment.γ. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 96 (MED) Þe siȝt of him is alir best.c1390 Body & Soul (Vernon) 104 Into þe aller deoppeste pit..Heomself asonken in þermit.a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 2001 Þey sorwedone & sykede sore..hurre mowrenyng was allere-mast.a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) 146 In wyrshype..he hold the fyrst..; In lasse, the mydmest..; In allerleste, the latest.δ. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 182, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Space Þer is a gret space atwixe febel and alle þer strongest of þe same kinde.a1500 (?c1450) Merlin (1899) xxiv. 446 The thre score knyghtes..kepte hem-self all-ther hinderest [Fr. au deriere] for to diffende the other.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Aviv To traist..guid of hime as of thair maist tender fader and al thair best frend.OE Genesis B 337 Hie hæfdon gewrixled wita unrim þurh heora miclan mod and þurh miht godes and þurh ofermetto ealra swiðost.] a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 85 (MED) Te biginninge was fair, and te middel fairere, and te ende alre fairest. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 687 (MED) Wone þe bale is alrehecst, Þonne is þe bote alre necst. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2086 Six hundred cnihtes..to wiðe alre hardest. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) 1512 Gordoille..was alre ȝeongest [c1275 Calig. alre ȝungest], of worde alre soþest. a1350 Sayings St. Bernard (Harl. 2253) in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 515 Mon, þou hauest wicked fon, Þe alre-worst is þat on. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) Orig. draft 381 Þou hast..mad þy avy..for to fiȝte, Of al oure ȝonder company, þe alre beste knyȝte. c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) 348 Þi douhter alre eldest, Ouer alle þe oþere beldest. a1400 (a1325) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Trin. Cambr.) (1887) 7626 Alre ȝongeste [?a1425 Digby alther ȝongest, a1450 London Univ. of al ȝongist; c1325 Calig. Constance þe oþer was..Þe erles wif Alein; Adele ȝongost was, To Steuene Bleis ispoused]. < as lemmas |
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