单词 | amuse |
释义 | † amusen.1 Obsolete. The action of amuse v. (in various senses); diversion, deception; preoccupation, musing. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > [noun] thoughta1387 consideration1388 contemplationc1390 meditationa1393 musinga1393 speculationa1450 studier1472 musea1500 recollection1576 contemplature1580 rumination1585 contemplating1587 amuse1606 meditating1609 theory1611 meditancea1625 amusement1694 cogitabundation1729 cogibundity1734 cogitabundity1744 think1834 recueillement1845 thunk1922 noodling1942 1606 T. Hutton 2nd Pt. Reasons for Refusall 72 Manie in these times..hauing wasted themselues in lawlesse states, or conceiuing amuse of our sacraments ministery, doctrine &c. 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iv. sig. G3 Orewhelmd with thought, with darke amuze And the sad sullennesse of grieved dislike. 1649 R. L'Estrange Vindic. from Calumnies sig. A2v Gave an Amuse, & Diversion to their Adversaries. c1686 R. Law Memorialls (1818) 64 [He] adjurn'd the parliament,..which put all our parliament members to an amuse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021). amusen.2 An amuse-bouche.Recorded earliest as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > appetizer shoeing-horn1536 antepast1582 rasher1609 whet1688 appetite1693 relisher1732 whetter1755 appetizer1862 amuse-bouche1959 amuse-gueule1963 amuse1988 relish2006 1988 N. Van Aken Feast of Sunlight 153 I devised a very simple, classic progression, beginning with an ‘amuse’ course—tiny samples of foie gras, a wild mushroom terrine, and grilled scallops with a butter sauce. 1998 N.Y. Times 22 July f6/2 The amuse-bouche concept made its way across the Atlantic fairly quickly, although restaurants tended to limit their amuses to one signature dish that could be prepared well in advance. 2013 S. D'Amato Good Stock (e-book ed.) viii The amuse were given to any patrons who ordered an aperitif, while they were looking at the menu. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). amusev. I. To distract, and related senses. 1. transitive. To divert the attention of (a person) in order to mislead; to distract from the facts or real state of affairs; to delude, cheat, deceive. Now archaic and rare.This was the usual sense in the 17th–18th cent. 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Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xii. iii I never amused my husbonde, ne can not doo it. 1569 W. Cecil in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1725) I. liv. 582 He was secretly employed to amuse her, and render her the more secure. 1647 Bp. J. Taylor Disc. Liberty of Prophesying iv. 74 in Treat. (1648) There is nothing that may be more abused by wilfull people..or that may amuse the most intelligent Observer. 1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely ii. 132 Teckeley..made these offers only to amuse the Council at Vienna. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §21. 38 Leave us in the dark, or what is worse, amuse and mislead us by false lights. 1843 A. Reid Kitto's Hist. Palestine iv. 95 They were amused and deceived by David's wife Michal,..while her husband..made his escape. 1895 S. J. Weyman From Mem. Minister of France vi. 142 Having amused the curious with this statement, I got away at daybreak. 1995 Q. Bell Elders & Betters i. 20 Medea..tore her brother to pieces, throwing the dismembered limbs into the sea one by one so as to amuse the enraged father who pursued her. 2. transitive. Military. To distract or divert (an enemy) from one's real aim, strategy, or intent. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > practise war as a profession or skill [verb (transitive)] > use specific tactics amuse1569 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. x. f. 58 The left wing..which he had appointed to amuse the right wing..of the enimie he caused to march straight and close together. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. iv. 179 He..thought it sufficient by charging, and amusing the Enemies Van, to win time. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 246 I caused two men to fire their pistols in the wood... This I did to give them [sc. the enemy] an alarm, and amuse them. 1841 Mrs. Clemons Manners & Customs India xv. 139 A party of the 38th sent out to amuse the enemy and intercept their works. 1900 C. R. Wilson Early Ann. Eng. in Bengal II. iv. p. xix Martin put a pole, with a candle and lantern at the end of it, into a..half tub, and sent it astern to amuse the French. 2000 W. Perkins Hoare & Headless Captains xiv. 207 I have also known one of His Majesty's ships to hoist French colors in order to amuse the enemy. a. transitive. To keep (a person) in expectation of something, esp. with false promises; to entice, lead on; (also) to distract in order to gain or waste time. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 48 Alphonso iudged it greatly to his benefit, if he could amuse & hold thennemies bridle vntill winter. 1639 Earl of Northumberland in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS (1872) 79/1 They will no longer be amused with the King's neutrality. 1672 King Charles II Let. 16 Jan. in Catal. Select. Stowe MSS (1883) 55 I would haue you vse your skill so to amuse them that they may not finally dispaire of me. 1748 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 538/2 Ruyter, perceiving that their drift was only to amuse him with fine promises,..weighed anchor from Melazzo. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. I. ii. 72 He had been amused so long with vain expectations. 1812 J. West Loyalists xxii. 134 Nothing was further from Cromwell's heart than an intention of realizing these promises. His only aim was to..amuse his opponents. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xliii. 179 Silanus was directed to amuse and negotiate with both powers, and avoid an open rupture by all the arts of diplomacy. b. transitive. Perhaps: to retain, to keep or hold (something) for a purpose. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1615 F. Bacon Let. to King (modernized text) in Wks. (1869) XII. vi. 183 To retrench and amuse the greatness of Spain for their own preservation. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. xix. 25 They must..be cut off Stump-wise, to amuse a little Sap in them [Fr. pour y amuser un peu de seve] during two or three Years. 4. a. intransitive. With upon, about. To gaze meditatively, wonderingly, or intently; to be absorbed in thought; to muse, ponder. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze stareOE gawc1175 darea1225 porec1300 muse1340 glowc1374 gogglec1380 gazec1386 glore?a1400 glopc1400 govec1480 glower?a1513 gowk1513 daze1523 amuse1532 glew1587 to feed one's eyes1590 to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598 to shoot one's eyes1602 glazea1616 stargaze1639 gaum1691 to stare like a stuck pig1702 ygaze1737 gawk1785 to feed one's sight1813 gloze1853 glow1856 1532 Chaucer's Hous of Fame iii, in Wks. Chaucer f. 319/2 I amused a longe whyle Upon this wal of Beryle [early MSS. mused]. 1595 E. Hoby tr. L.-V. de La Popelinière Hist. France ii. 101 To the end no leasure should be giuen to the French souldiers to amuse about the spoile [Fr. samuser au sac], fire was put in diuers places of the Towne. a1656 R. Loveday tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Hymen's Præludia (1674) iv. ii. 291 Things presented themselves to her Fancy in such Forms, as gave her Matter enough to amuse upon. 1795 Smollett's Don Quixote xvi. 420 One night, while he lay watchful and awake, amusing [1755 Smollett musing] upon his disaster,..he heard a key turning in the door. 1854 Country Gentleman 30 Mar. 404/3 It is a serious thing to amuse upon the past. b. transitive. To cause (a person) to gaze meditatively, wonderingly, or intently; (hence) to confuse, perplex, bewilder, puzzle. Obsolete (archaic in later use).In quot. 1910 intransitive with object implied. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)] abobc1330 confusec1350 confoundc1374 cumbera1375 passc1384 maskerc1400 mopc1425 enose1430 manga1450 overmusec1460 perplex1477 maze1482 enmuse1502 ruffle?a1505 unsteady1532 entangle1540 duddle1548 intricate1548 distraught1579 distract1582 mizzle1583 moider1587 amuse1595 mist1598 bepuzzle1599 gravel1601 plunder1601 puzzle1603 intrigue1612 vexa1613 metagrobolize?a1616 befumea1618 fuddle1617 crucify1621 bumfiddlea1625 implicate1625 giddify1628 wilder1642 buzzlea1644 empuzzle1646 dunce1649 addle1652 meander1652 emberlucock1653 flounder1654 study1654 disorient1655 embarrass?1656 essome1660 embrangle1664 jumble1668 dunt1672 muse1673 clutter1685 emblustricate1693 fluster1720 disorientate1728 obfuscate1729 fickle1736 flustrate1797 unharmonize1797 mystify1806 maffle1811 boggle1835 unballast1836 stomber1841 throw1844 serpentine1850 unbalance1856 tickle1865 fog1872 bumfuzzle1878 wander1897 to put off1909 defeat1914 dither1919 befuddle1926 ungear1931 to screw up1941 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. vii. f. 46 All [coronation finery] t'amuse the world, and turne the thought Of what, and how twas done, to what is wrought. 1665 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (ed. 2) 111 To amuze and scare us with one Prodigy or other perpetually. 1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in Tale of Tub 294 To..stupify, fluster, and amuse the Senses. 1821 European Mag. Mar. 202/2 That secret school [sc. Free-masonry] which amused and frightened Europe more than six centuries. 1910 H. James in In After Days ix. 199 Is there a life after death?.. I..find it [sc. this question] increasingly assert its power to attach and, if I may use the word so unjustly compromised by trivial applications, to amuse. III. To occupy, entertain, and related senses. a. transitive (reflexive). To engage or occupy oneself. Also in passive: to be engaged or occupied. Obsolete except as merged with 7a. ΚΠ 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iii. vi. f. lxxixv Youre eares..amuse themselfe sonner to heare the sophistes and logycyans to dispute, than to heare speake of the affaires of the cytie. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xxvii Why art thou amused upon the course of the stars? 1641 J. Milton Animadversions Pref. 4 The ingenuous Reader without further amusing himselfe in the labyrinth of controversall antiquity. 1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 20 The Women are so much amuzed with the management at home. 1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles i. 3 We are so amus'd and engross'd by the Things of Sense, that we forget our Maker. b. transitive. To engage or arrest the attention of (a person); to occupy (a person's thoughts). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > engage the attention [verb (transitive)] exercisea1538 entertainc1540 replenish1548 rouse1583 catcha1586 amuse1586 detainc1595 attract1599 grope1602 concerna1616 take1634 stay1639 engage1642 meet1645 nudge1675 strike1697 hitcha1764 seize1772 interest1780 acuminate1806 arrest1835 grip1891 intrigue1894 grab1966 work1969 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie x. 45 How greatly in his first booke doth he [sc. Virgil] amuse the reader, with..intollerable turmoyles vpon the sea happening to Aeneas. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 312 That he should not ammuse his thoughts about matters above the clowds [Fr. pour l'advertir qu'il seroit temps d'amuser son pensement aux choses qui estoient dans les nues]. a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 5 Hairs which have most amused me have not been in the Face or Head but on the Back. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 1 Sad and solemn objects to amuse and affect the pensive part of the soul. 6. transitive. To occupy or spend (time, etc.) in a pleasant way; to while away; to enliven. Now archaic and rare.In later use influenced by sense 7. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > be pleased with [verb (transitive)] > pass time pleasurably amuse1579 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin iii. 138 The king..amused the time about iustes, torneyes, and other pleasures of Court [Fr. Le Roy..s'amusoit à ioustes, tournois, & autres plaisirs]. 1706 C. Gildon Post-boy robb'd of his Mail (ed. 2) lix. 402 Soft tender Fancies will amuse your Days, and pleasing dreams your Nights. 1743 H. Walpole Let. 12 Oct. (1903) I. 389 I have sent you some pamphlets to amuse your solitude. 1835 Amer. Ann. Educ. 5 431 The frothy periodicals, which furnish us with fiction..to amuse a passing moment, and leave no trace behind. 1997 C. Stasheff Wizard in Chaos xix. 253 After all, it amuses an idle hour. 7. a. transitive (reflexive). Originally: to distract oneself from more serious matters by indulging in a pleasurable pastime. Later (without suggestion of trifling or time-wasting): to engage in an activity for relaxation or amusement; to occupy or entertain oneself. Frequently with by, with. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > be childish [verb (intransitive)] > amuse oneself amuse1633 1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint sig. G4v Amusing themselues with no other things but pleasures. 1729 J. Swift Let. to Bolingbroke 21 Mar. in Lett. Dr. Swift (1741) 96 I knew an old Lord..who amused himself with mending pitchforks and spades for his Tenants. 1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 38 Amuse yourself..by jotting down some fragments of our absurdities. 1918 G. M. Reynolds Lonely Stronghold viii. 81 Do you think you can amuse yourself for a while, Miss Innes? l am going to have my afternoon nap. 2003 G. A. Dariaux Guide to Elegance (new ed.) p. viii I began to amuse myself by stringing together my own costume jewellery necklaces. b. transitive. Originally: to provide pleasurable entertainment for (a person) as a distraction from more serious matters. Later: to please with something light or cheerful; to divert or engage (someone) with a pleasurable occupation or pastime. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > [verb (transitive)] skenta1250 solace1297 comfort1303 gamec1330 disportc1374 mirtha1400 solancea1400 playa1450 recreate1531 pastime1577 sport1577 entertain1593 to take a person out of himself (herself, etc.)1631 divertise1651 to take the fancy of1653 divert1662 amuse1667 tickle1682 1667 A. Cowley To Royal Soc. ii, in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. sig. B That his own busines he might quite forgit, They amusd [printed amus d] him with the sports of wanton Wit. 1715 Pattern True Love in Yorks. Garland (1788) 13 Odd tales which heretofore, Did so amuse the teeming throng. 1757 W. Dodd Disc. on Miracles III. x. 456 The procurement of wealth and earthly treasures..can..amuse and occupy the soul. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. iv. 45 Of all diversions..fishing is the worst qualified to amuse a man who is at once indolent and impatient. View more context for this quotation 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxii. 205 The fellow..brought us..Bell's life to amuse us after our luncheon. 1941 C. Headlam Diary 17 Aug. in S. Ball Parl. & Politics in Age Churchill & Attlee (1999) vii. 271 I suppose he amuses Winston and gives him lots of cigars and brandy. 2003 E. Hunt & N. Keller Rarotonga & Cook Islands (ed. 5) 98/1 Lots of toys to amuse the kiddies while you enjoy your Penang curry. c. transitive. To make (a person) laugh or smile; to cause (a person) to find something funny; to entertain. Frequently with about, by, at, with, or to do something. ΚΠ 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 326 I am carefull..to amuse you by the Account of all I see. 1796 M. Wollstonecraft Lett. Sweden, Norway & Denmark xxii. 235 Marguerite..was much amused by the costume of the [Danish] women. 1878 H. Frith tr. J. R. Wyss Swiss Family Robinson xi. 96 Our little monkey..amused us very much with his grimaces. 1902 W. Cather Treasure of Far Island in New Eng. Mag. Oct. 238/1 He was amused to see his father appear in an apology for a frock coat. 1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 241 [They] amuse the locals with their jokes and mannerisms. 2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty xiii. 60 It was a crap joke, really, but it amused me and my dad. 8. intransitive. To entertain someone; to provide amusement. Occasionally also: to be readily entertained. ΚΠ 1700 tr. Polite Gentleman ii. xii. 105 I do not mean those Books that go under the Name of little Histories or Romances, the chief Design of which is to amuse and please. 1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. ix. 129 Representations of..artless innocence always amuse and delight. 1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 69 Brilliant oratorical displays to tickle and amuse. 1961 John o' London's 21 Sept. 332/3 Decors which others will probably find amusing. I don't amuse all that easily. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic v. 56 Discknickers..had an extraordinary gift of mimicking the way people talked and a talent to amuse by doing accents. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.11606n.21988v.1480 |
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