单词 | eche |
释义 | † echen.1 Obsolete. rare. A piece added (e.g. to a bellrope). Cf. eke n.1 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > end of rope eche1525 eke1549 tail-rope1656 trace1663 sally1809 tuffing1869 1525 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. For ij ropes for eches for the bell ropys. For a eche to the gret bell jd. 1595 in Antiquary (1888) May 211 For itches for the bell roapes vjd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † echen.2 Obsolete. rare. A taper. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > taper broach1377 gaudy1531 eche1551 taper1653 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lij [Women] that gaue aultre clothes and towels, waxe candels and eches, masse grotes and trentals. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxxiiijv They toke of these sea crabbes and tyed eches vnto them light. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018). † echeadj. Obsolete. Everlasting, eternal. Also quasi-n. in phrase in eche. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective] echec825 echelichc825 endlessc888 lastinga1225 everlastingc1225 perdurablec1275 perpetuala1325 unendeda1325 incorruptiblea1340 ay-lastingc1340 inlastingc1340 eternec1366 interminablec1374 unstanchablec1374 ever-duringa1382 eternalc1386 sempitern1390 never-failinga1400 sempiternal14.. ever-being?a1425 ever-durable?a1425 immarcescible?a1475 perennal?c1500 deathless1547 everlastable1548 incessant1557 unperishing1561 undeterminable1581 evera1586 unendlya1586 inexterminable1592 never-ending?1592 aeviternal1596 dateless1597 undecaying1599 entombless1601 perishless1605 ageless1609 continual1610 perpetuous1612 imperible1614 ne'er-endinga1616 out-date1623 undated1624 perennious1628 immortal1630 imperishable1648 birthless1651 fadeless1652 sempiternous1653 evergreen1655 intemporal1656 indefectible1659 inconclusible1660 unending1661 aeonian1664 unfading1665 sempervirent1668 amaranthal1674 ne'er-dying1693 perennial1717 timeless1742 indefeatablea1754 amaranthine1782 aeonial1800 unterminating1821 unevanescent1827 ay1845 forever1879 sempervirid1909 c825 Vesp. Psalter cxi[i]. 7[6] In gemynde æcre bið se rehtwisa. 837 Kentish Charter in Sweet Old Eng. Texts (1885) 449 Ðæt mon agefe ðæt lond inn higum to heora beode him to brucanne on ece ærfe. OE Riddle 40 1 Ece is se scyppend. c1175 Cott. Hom. 239 Witeð into ece fer. a1200 Moral Ode 364 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 231 God one sal ben ache lif, and blisse..and ache reste. a1225 Juliana 79 Iheiet beo he him ane as he wes and is eauer in eche. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1277 Ah eavreeuh thing that eche nis A-gon schal and al this worldes blis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † echev. Obsolete. 1. a. transitive. To enlarge, augment, increase. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] echeOE ekec1200 multiplya1275 morea1300 increase13.. vaunce1303 enlargec1380 augmenta1400 accrease1402 alargea1425 amply?a1425 great?1440 hainc1440 creasec1475 grow1481 amplea1500 to get upa1500 improve1509 ampliatea1513 auge1542 over1546 amplify1549 raise1583 grand1602 swell1602 magnoperate1610 greaten1613 accresce1626 aggrandize1638 majoratea1651 adauge1657 protend1659 reinforce1660 examplify1677 pluralize1750 to drive up1817 to whoop up1856 to jack up1884 upbuild1890 steepen1909 up1934 OE Andreas (1932) 1384 Ðu scealt widan feorh ecan þine yrmðu. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 208 Gif him fefer ne sie, yc þæt mid wine. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 103 He..his sunnen echeð. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 36 God echeð forðere his grace. a1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1460 God might not oo poynt of my joyes eche. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 531/1 I etche, I increase a thynge, Je augmente. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 23 To peize the time, To ech [1623 ich] it, and to draw it out in length. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles x. 13 Time..With your fine fancies quaintly each . View more context for this quotation a1624 Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 104 Where the lyon's skin will not reach, there they itch it with the fox skin. b. with out = to eke out. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > make complete [verb (transitive)] > complete, fill up, or make up > by supplying what is wanting performa1382 supplyc1480 upmake1485 to make up1488 mend?a1505 to stop, to fill (in or up), to supply a gap?1523 to eke out1596 help out (also through)1600 size1608 echea1616 inch out1620 to eke up1633 supplete1664 lengthen1670 supplement1749 to husband out1762 sort1880 piecenc1900 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. 0. 35 Still be kind, And eech out our performance with your mind. View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. ii. 19 in Wks. II My whole halfe pound of tabacco, and a quarter of a pound of Coltsfoot, mixt with it too, to itch it out. a1642 W. Bedell in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus (1651) 63 To itch out his travelling charges he agreed with Baptista Boeria..to accompany his two sonnes to Bononia. 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iii. 63 He had such a full Character eech'd out with long Cloak-bag-string dashes, as sometimes a whole Line will scarce containe two Words. 1682 T. D'Urfey Butler's Ghost 73 And none like him had e're the skill To etch and lengthen out a Bill. c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding (1813) §29 Terms..found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their systems. 2. a. To add (something) to. ΚΠ c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 25 Hwylc eower mæg þencende ican [c950 Lindisf. and c975 Rushw. ge-ece; c1160 Hatton echan] ane elne to his anlicnesse? 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. ix. 17 He made brent sacrifice, echynge into the sacrifyce offrynges of licours. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1122 Hardde pitche and wex, take even weight, And herdde with pix liquide herto eche An halven dele. b. ? To increase (one's) stature. [But possibly a different word; compare icche(n v.] ΚΠ ?a1639 A. Harsnett Gods Summons (1640) 413 Riches cannot..each us one haires breadth neerer heaven. 3. a. intransitive. To grow. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] growa1000 springOE creue?c1450 eche1567 vegetate1605 the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (intransitive)] > grow waxc1000 thrivec1175 breeda1350 grow1382 springc1384 upgrowc1430 shoot1538 bud1566 eche1567 to start up1570 vegetate1605 excresce1691 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) x. f. 131 Her belly big The eatching [L. crescens] tree had ouergrownen. b. Of a ‘pace’: To increase, be quickened. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (intransitive)] > increase speed to go betc1386 to mend one's pace1592 quicken1617 echea1644 accelerate1661 swiften1839 to step on the gas1916 to pull one's finger out1919 a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) ix How each envious pace Vies to be first, and eches for the place. 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